The weather is beautiful this morning in Mazatlan. It’s spring and the breeze is warm, the birds are chirping and the park is almost empty. But….it’s time to go!
We hooked up yesterday and Eric moved forward, loaded the bike and bicycle and other bits and pieces and then moved back to our hook-up so we could dump this morning.
Nobody, nada nothing!
It’s about 9:20 am and we are ready to leave the park. Still a few rigs up front.
Dick and Val’s 5th wheel is sitting all by itself. They likely won’t be able to return next winter and we’ll miss them.
Wash room and front office. We’ll turn right and head north. See you in November Mazatlan.
Here we are on Mex 15D heading north.
Just a short distance and ….a toll booth. This is an expensive one.
Agriculture is huge in Sinaloa. Greenhouse crops and field crops as well.
Bits of new paving here and there.
The corn is green and as even as a marine’s brushcut! GMO? Tons of fertilzer and that’s what you get.
Fields prepared for planting and irrigation water in the ditches.
We have gone through a few more toll booths and passed through Culliacan. Here we are at Pemex 7474 at kilometer 44 north of Culliacan having lunch and fueling up. One of the Federales parked at the station really liked the 5th wheel (mui bonita) and wanted to know what it cost. Eric said $40,000.00 US dollars new….(not worth that now though.)
So….road to this point not good but not horrible either. It has been a lot worse. Eric did drive 90km max and mostly 80km and also in the slow lane but spent a lot of time with our right wheels on the shoulder trying to avoid potholes.
North of km 44 the highway was horrible. Bad pavement, potholes and we moved even more slowly until it improved for about 1km just before the next toll booth. Accident….I think not! Then terrible again until km 130 where it improved.
These grain storage silos are attatched to a feed lot.
A truck full of sorghum. How do they get it so even?
Coming into Guasave where it’s really busy.
A busy town with all the services you need.
Burger King, WalMart and even a McDonald’s.
Trucks and trucks full of tomatoes. Ones that fell out of trucks dotted the road as we travelled along. I will really miss Mexico’s produce….the roads….not so much!
At one point here they were feeding the cattle tomatoes that probably didn’t make the cut, then in another spot they were composting them in the field. I think this may be tomatoes as well. Too far away to see.
Busy, busy intersection and the topes slow you down so the south bound traffic can cross the north bound lane and head east.
Tractors are allowed on the highway from Culliacan north.
We have passed Pemex 4925 heading north and then used a retourno to get back to it. A large gated lot that we stay in going south and also heading north. Tomorrow morning we will head south to the first retourno and then continue north.
We arrived about 3:20pm after a reasonable 260 mile day. We don’t like to move fast on the Mexican roads….too hard on the rig and too hard on us. This is lonely us back in the corner out of the dust. Last fall heading south it was a blazing hot 34C when and we had to run the A/C. In addition to that the bugs ate us alive. There is an irrigation ditch near by and there are lots of biting bugs. No bueno. Hope we are luckier this time. It is only 27C and quite pleasant.
Hardly any trucks here yet but when they come in the double trailors really create a dust storm. We park on the north end of the lot because the wind blows from the north but that means we are close to the ditch with the biting bugs….can’t have it both ways I guess.
Tomorrow off to Guaymas and the Hotel Playa de Cortez RV park.
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