Monday July 20th, 2009

Hola everyone, we are parked on the 200 ( the highway to home) at a small pull out as it is way too dark to drive this curvy two lane very narrow highway. We are around 100 kms away from home; it is 8:00 our time 9:00 mountain daylight time and Ross is trying to get the satellite working! He never changes, even in Mexico. We are so excited to be so close.

The temp in here right now is 78C which I think is the lowest we have seen since the Grand Canyon. There were a lot of clouds as if we are going to have a rain storm, Ross hopes so.

We traveled through Culiacan and Mazatlan, (this is where Ross got too close to a bus and brushed the mirror of Betsy with the bus, we now need to get a new mirror). This was where we thought we would stay the night but it was so crowded and the streets so narrow, we decided to keep going. We went into Tepic, thinking we could hit a Soriana (a grocery store) to buy a new mirror for Betsy, but the roads again we so narrow that we needed to turn back, Ross pulled a Uee in front of a Soriana, he had realized too late that there was as sign over the entrance way that he would have not been able to go under , so instead of turning left in to the parking lot he had to turn around, boy was he lucky, there was just enough room for him to turn around, I of course followed him, with horns blaring! O well, they will never see us again, probably, so who cares. We started back to where we started from with the turn to highway 200 to go to Bucerias. We turned the first time a little early (road signs are not great) and ended up in a Pemex Gas station, which was a good thing it paralleled the 200 cause we could turn right onto the road. Now, only in Mexico, can you be on a major highway and go through a town that the roads are so narrow only Betsy could get through with cars parked on the side of the road. It looked like we had taken a wrong turn, but there were no turns on the road and Ross was following a Semi! So we went through these narrow streets, enjoying the sound, music and people watching!

We got through the toll, ( boy are these expensive, I think the most I had to pay was 780 pesos (7.80) Ross paid 560 and we had to go through 5 of these today and probably the same amount yesterday) and started on this soooooooooooooooo narrow two lane highway that the back wheels on the trailer kept going off the road. (The white line is on the edge of the pavement, then a 1 foot drop onto forest). So now we are stopped for the night and hoping we are OK here, just outside a little town and with a mobile home across the highway with some Mexicans hanging around a pickup truck. We have learned that just about all Mexicans are more friendly and honourable than us North Americans, so we feel pretty safe, although I’m sure the media types would freak and say don’t EVER stay on the side of the road in Mexico. Well, we are, so there! Home tomorrow!

Talk to you from home!
Ross and Kim