March 19, 2007

Los Mochis RV Park (map)

Getting our land legs back

At 6 am the crew arrived and started the task of breaking us free from our flatcar perches, removing the retaining cables and wheelchocks, that kept us from becoming a part of the Mexican landscape.

After rolling back onto the pavement, we were shepherded to the RV park in caravans of 7 or so. These were narrow pull-throughs with 15 amps of flickering electricity and water that would need a good dose of chlorine, when it trickled out. I paid a couple of kids 50 pesos to wash the Honda, which was ‘dust to dust’, ‘front to back.’ Janice worked hard to bring a semblance of cleanliness to our rolling condo.

This was a day to recover from our train excursion, and adjust to the 95 degree heat that will be our companion for the next 4 weeks.

In the evening we were bussed to a local hotel, where we enjoyed a camarones (shrimp) dinner, the best so far. Janice was served a birthday cake, with the group joining into sing ”Hoppy Birthday.” She’s a geezer now, just like me.