Friday, February 22, 2008

Mazatlan-San Blas and all caught up

While in Mazatlan Dave and I went into town to buy new front tires for our car. Dave had noticed that our front bumper was kind of hanging off so when he went to put it back on he noticed the front inside of the tires were bald. We went to Wal-Mart, they sold tires but they didn’t mount them, we went to Sam’s Club, they didn’t have our size tires. We went to a tire store and they were going to have to order them and that would take 2 days, but they said if we wanted a little bit smaller tire we could be out in a ½ hour, and pay 560. Dave said we would keep looking and right down the street was another tire place that had the right size delivered to them while we waited and it only cost us 350.00, good thing we kept looking.
The next day we drove into town, found a parking place then grabbed a taxi to take us to the seafood market place, then on to the market place. No parking around there that’s why you take a taxi all around, we loaded up on shrimp and scallops then in the market place we got Danny’s family soccer shirts, which they had asked for and Kim a handmade Mexican dress.
The rest of the tours we had in Mazatlan were OK, should have stayed home and laid out but we didn’t we hung with the group.
In San Blas, I didn’t really mention that place but when we arrived, because of all the tough Topas our front grill was hanging off. It seems the screws came out of the right hand side, so I got pictures of all the guys working on our coach. When we were getting ready to leave the place to head out for Mazatlan, the Wagon Master could get one of his jacks up, Lee’s electrical wasn’t working and John’s trailer hitch was almost off, so that was a very tough road.
While leaving Mazatlan, Dave tried to go around a tree stump, and the stump won, oh well, another new dent in the RV. As long as no one looks at the right side of the rig we will be OK. We have now been in Guasave for 3 days and we leave this morning for Alamos. We have been parked on the beach these 3 days and the rigs are all full of sand and dirt. Not even going to bother cleaning it until we get on solid ground again. We will be in Alamos for 3 nights then onto San Carlos where we will finally be parked on solid ground. This adventure ends in 8 more days, but we have signed up for 2 more adventures, next October back to Albuquerque for the Balloon Festival, then next May we are doing a 43 day Lewis & Clark Trail adventure.
One more thing, our Wagon Master didn't make it to Guasave, with us, he has been so sick that his wife took him right back into the states to get him to a hospital. We also left Art and Mary behind, because Mary ended up so sick that she was admitted into the hospital in Mazatlan. There have been so many people sick and it wasn't from the water either.

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