Shoot out on the toll road and shopping in Yuma.

Tuesday March 23, 2010

We are now sitting in Yuma and I have had a chance to look at the Mexico newspapers "El Sol and Noroeste."  We had an email forwarded to us written by some RVers leaving Celestino which is about 75km north of Mazatlan.  They saw armed gunmen at the entrance to the toll road and were of course worried that they were going to be held up.  They were ignored and they rolled through and hit the highway north, fast!  There was then a note to read the paper for that day and it is reported that there was a major shoot out on the maxipista (toll road) which happened minutes after they rolled through.  Nine dead, machine guns and grenades and the main road north was of course closed for hours as they waited for the bomb squad to check grenades on one of the bodies.   Scary stuff and they were lucky.  If you read El Sol de Mazatlan or Noroeste Mazatlan using the google translator you will see what happened.  Ah Mexico!  And still, we prefer Mexico!

Wednesday March 24, 2010

We spent yesterday morning doing a little shopping which is what we came here to do.  We bought a satellite finder at RadioShack and hopefully that will help us get the Starchoice dish set up.  We looked at small swivel, rocker recliners and may have found one that will do for the rig.  We have had one from Erika and Wade's  trailer with us the past two years.  Eric wants the pouffy dark green one and I like the smaller gold one with wood on the arms.  The green one is overpriced at $500.00 on sale so we'll see who wins.  We picked up some Budweiser beer at Walmart but we are really missing the Pacifico with limon in it that we drank all winter in Mazatlan. 

Eric likes to people watch while he pushes the cart and he is really missing all those pretty Mexican senoritas.  He thinks the north american women are really lacking compared to the Mexicans.  I guess I know where he'll end up if something ever happens to me.  He thinks they are really beautiful!

Bill and Arlie Watson (Wade's Dad and stepmom) dropped by yesterday afternoon for a quick visit and I briefly filled them in on our winter.  Arlie had lost the link to the blog so she hadn't been able to keep up with us.  Arlie doesn't care for Mexico and all the shootings just confirm it for her!  We'll have a good blab and a beer with them later today.

A Mexican had dropped by yesterday to sell us a rig wash and we decided that for $35.00 it would be worth it to get some of the grime and bugs cleaned off.  It isn't much money but they weren't going to wax it.  When the two workers showed up they were pointing to the bugs on the front of the rig.  They then climbed up to wash the roof and the fun began.  Eric had to keep pointing to the grime along the edge of the roof and they seemed unable to grasp what he wanted them to do!  One guy was on his cell phone the whole time while the other guy played (or was) dumb.  When they got down they didn't seem to want to actually wash it with a brush they just wanted to spray it with the pressure washer and one guy never did get off the phone.  Eric fired them!  What a waste of time.  If you can't wash the rig for $35.00 then don't say you can. 

We managed to set up the satellite yesterday evening and Eric says that the headings we are using now are different than the ones we were using last year.  We couldn't find the one we usually hit and now seem to be on a satellite further east.  Good signal 75.

Today we'll continue with our shopping and try to pick up some of the things that are on our list from the winter.