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Monday, November 28, 2011

Guaymas to Los Mochis

Monday Nov. 28, 2011

We left the Playa de Cortes RV park in Miramar at 9am this morning on our way to Los Mochis.  We passed through Obregon with no issues but as we left the city the highway construction started.  They are working on the south bound lanes and have created a huge drop off on the right edge of the pavement.   Be careful!   There were many areas where we were sent over to the north bound lanes and there was then two way north/south traffic.  We could see that they are laying concrete on the southbound lanes while were on the northbound lanes heading south.  The toll booth at kilometer 195 did not take our money as the highway was under construction.  I might also point out that we have seen numerous federally check points since we have arrived back in Mexico.  They have not stopped us, just waved us through.  About 10km north  of Navojoa we crossed to the new concrete south bound lanes and it is really nice.  Two wide lanes with shoulders, what a treat.  We were using “Marjorie our TomTom “ today to see if she would get the route correct.  She did really well until we hit Navojoa when she missed the periferico which goes west around Navojoa at Pemex #4143 where we usually stop for lunch.  As there is construction there I missed it although Eric knew it was the right one.  We could have U turned at the retourneau but Eric decided to go through town as we have never been through Navojoa.   We had no problem and it is really a beautiful little town.  The main street is all newly paved and it wasn’t very busy.  No problemo.  “Marjorie” gets a demerit point! 

We finally stopped for lunch just south of the toll booth that is south of Navojoa.  There is usually room in the meridian but there was a Federally check point in progress.  They had northbound vehicles stopped and they were tearing them apart.  They were lying underneath, checking the engines and had even taken the tail lights off and were looking inside. They were well supplied with tool boxes.   Good to see.  We were not stopped at the Agricultural Inspection so I didn’t even have to hide my fruit! 

Now for the best part.  We had decided to stay south of Los Mochis at Pemex 4925 which is just south of the Monsanto plant.  We were pleasantly surprised to find that they have fenced the lot with razor wire, have a 24 hour guard and they even took down our license plate number and had us sign in.  It is gratis (free.)  Very pleasant young man on the gate and no problem to come in and stay.  Eric gave him 50 pesos which should be common courtesy.  It will be a safe night. 

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Looking forward to the entrance at the south end of the station.

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Parked in line.

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Back corner of the lot, now fenced.  Bueno!

We are both tired from the pounding you take on the Mexican roads.  Eric thinks that our hitch may contribute to the problem and if we had a Mor ride hitch it might help.  We know that people drive San Carlos to Mazatlan but that will never be us!  We are not in a hurry and would only do it if there was a death in the family or some other emergency, but again that is just us and our preference.  We saw an RV bus on the way that was pulled over trying to change a tire.  It would not be good to be in a hurry or not have an alternate place to stop if things went wrong.  We have not felt unsafe anywhere so far in Mexico and  all is well.  We have seen quite a few RV’s on the road today so there are still a few of us left!  We find it easier to travel at our own slow (today around 80km per hour) than be in a rush.  A bonus to that was we were getting 19 liters to the 100km  and we usually only get 24 to 25 at higher speeds. 

Tomorrow another 400km and we will be in Mazatlan.

We tried the Yagi but there is no Wifi signal here at all.  I’ll post tomorrow in Mazatlan. 

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