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Sunday, March 30, 2014

It has been a very busy week.

It has been so busy that I haven’t kept up the blog.  Sorry! 

As you all know Eric’s mother passed away last Saturday and we have been trying to figure out how to deal with a funeral while we are in Mexico.  The funeral is planned for April 9th and will be a family reunion and a celebration of Mom’s life as well. 

We are leaving Mazatlan tomorrow and will head for Yuma, Az.  We will take a week to get there and then we will leave the rig there while we fly back to Vancouver, B.C. for the service and spend a few days with family.  When we return to Yuma we will continue our travels north.  It will all work out and it will be good to spend time with family. 

The rig is packed up and we will leave the park around 10 am tomorrow and spend our first night in Los Mochis at the large Pemex on the east side (northbound) side of the highway.  We have stayed there in the past and it has a hotel and restaurant, gated lot and lots of dust!  The Pemex (4925) that we usually stay at south of Los Mochis (heading south and north) is out this year as the retourno south of it is blocked and it would not be possible to retourno and head north from there.  Next year.

We had also heard that the road through Empalme heading into Guaymas was under construction but that has apparently been done and there are no issues there at this point.  A few people have had thorough checks (20 min to 30 min) at the military check point at Benjamin Hill north of Hermosillo, Sonora.

This email is from Dennis…..

We left SC this morning at 0700 and arrived Ajo 1715. No issues other than the military check at Benjamin Hill, they checked me over very well for about 20 minutes. Road is quite rough around Benjamin Hill other than that it was not to bad. In regards to Pitiquito, the place can be accessed at points #2 and #3. We used #2 then walked over to the main building and got the official to come back and remove the stickers.
While we were there two RVs used access #3 and parked closer to the main building. The only downside of #3 is a very tight left turn to access the site, therefore one should be in the right hand lane and proceed left from the highway when safe to do so. There is less turning room once inside #3 also.
#1 is a exit only for south bound traffic, I mentioned on map for a reference only.

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Following this email was another one from Dennis….

Okay, In my last msg I mentioned two rigs that entered at #3.
I spoke to one of them at Ajo this morning, he advised the left turn into the site is not difficult if you stay in right hand lane of the highway. -Be aware of northbound traffic coming up from behind.
- Once into the site stop at first building and go fetch the Aduana.
-After processing you can go through the site as if you were proceeding south.
-Upon leaving the site you will make a U turn onto the main highway to go back north.
Safe travels.

Thanks Dennis

Hope this helps everyone in their travels through Lukeville.  I will post again when we get to Los Mochis and if not there then from Playa de Cortez. 

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