Left Villa Serena at 09;03a.m. after saying our goodbyes to everyone. It was a bad time to leave because as we got on the highway, we were caught in a major traffic jam. Unbeknown to us, there was a fund-raising run happening which snagged the traffic. It took us an hour to go approx. 8 miles to the turn off to Hwy 19. But we made it and got going north, past Todos Santos and onwards to LaPaz. The highway was easy to drive, much better than coming down on Mex 1 through San Jose. We had rolling hills for a while then a fairly straight and wide highway.
Once at the junction of Mex 1 and 19, we drove on 4 lanes highway to LaPaz, by-passed the town (which we found on our previous stay) and headed northwest to Ciudad Constitucion (Mexican spelling). We stopped for lunch just outside of LaPaz around 1 p.m. and for diesel ( 52.72Liters @.569)
The drive was uneventful, I guess I am feeling a bit more easy having driven it before but this is the good part of the whole highway.
We arrived at our campsite, Manfred's RV Park, in Ciudad Constitucion, around 4 p.m. (we made a few stops along the way) and paid $40 u.s. for two nights. After setting up, we walked to the onsite restaurant and had a couple of cerveza and dinner which was delicious: a chicken cooked in mushroom, rice and some vegys.
Went to bed around 10 p.m.
N 25* 02" 57" W 111* 40' 47"
Alt: 201 feet
distance today: 376 km
As a side note, we drove a grand total of 962 km while in Cabo
JAN 20, Sunday, sunny
Got up around 7 a.m. and it was cold, very cold. I don't think it went over 40*F overnight. Got the furnace going and read for a couple of hours and had breakfast. Showered in the park's showers which had very little pressure and then we left to explore the area. I fuelled 60.81 litres, then headed to Ciudad Insurgent(approx 25 km) then turned west to Puerto Lopez Mateos (approx 28 km) The road was paved and very flat. We hit some rolling hills near the ocean then arrived at the village. We drove through town which was very clean and quaint and parked in this huge parking lot after paying 10 pesos ( $1 ). We walked around and found out that they wanted $160. u.s. each for 2 hours for whale watching. We talked to a couple who claimed they only saw one whale so we didn't go. We walked around, in a balmy 70*F, and looked at all the trinkets. Val bought one little ankle bracelet. We had lunch at a onsite side bar and had an excellent seafood combo consisting of langosta(lobster), cameron(shrimp) and pescador(fish), rice, tomatoes and the famous mais tortilla. A family sat with us but didn't speak any English. Val managed to chat with them and I gave the young girl a pen and the young boy a Frisbee with the Canadian flag on them. They appeared to be very pleased. They stood up, came over to my seat and as I was standing, the little girl pulled on my jacket until I bent over and she gave me a hug; the boy gave me a shy handshake and we all had a good laugh.
We left there and drove back to Ciudad Constitucion then took another paved highway and headed back to the coast to Puerto San Carlos. This little village was further from the city and also further south along the Bay of Magdalena. It was not as pretty as Lopez Mateos and after driving around the whole place and stopping to watch people clamming, we came back to our site. We stopped at the "Ley" for some milk and vegetables.
It was a wonderful day and tomorrow we move on to "Bahia Concepcion"
We had meatballs for dinner, one of my favourite meal.
Distance touring: 253Km
JAN 21, Monday, sunny
Another cold night but a sunny day. We left @ 9:17a.m. and slowly made our way to "Bahia Concepcion". The drive through the Gigante Mountains was gorgeous as expected and I was able to enjoy it a bit more this time. As we descended, the Sea of Cortez came into view and Val really got excited with the picture taking. She is looking forward being on the beach.
We stopped for lunch just north of Loreto in a small road side restaurant (closed) then carried on north.
We arrived at Los Cocos beach on the "Bahia Concepcion" around 2:30 p.m. and Ronald, Louise, Gord and Lee met us with open arms. It was a really tight turn from the highway to come in here and I broke a snap on my box cover so will have toorder a new one. We parked, set up and now it's time to enjoy this beautiful place. A mexican came around to collect the campees @ $6.per night. We paid for 5 for now. Also had mexicans come around trying to sell us trinkets, vegetable and water (non-drinkable)
We had happy hour with everyone on the beach, met a whole bunch of new campers, had dinner and went to bed around 9 p.m., tired and happy to be here.
N 26* 44' 34"
W 111* 54' 03"
Alt: sea level
Distance today: 255 km.
JAN. 22, Tuesday, cloudy
We got up to a cloudy day and it stayed like that all. Quite cool too. Never went above 70*
We went into town today as I needed to check my e-mail, my banking and we also needed some groceries. Ronald and Louise also drove in as they had to fill their truck/camper with drinking water. We all had lunch in town together and had to put jackets on as the wind picked up and it got cooler. On the way back, I fuelled: 340 pesos for 59 L
Came back to our site (20 km away) and sat around and BS with the crew. After dinner, we had a big camp fire on the beach and told jokes. These are a good bunch of people to be around. Gord has offered us the use of his power plant to charge up our batteries which is really nice of him. We are conserving our batteries by not using the furnace and only turning on lights that we need.
Anyway, we had a nice evening and got to bed around 10 p.m. We felt some rain drop earlier on in the evening but nothing serious.
Life is but a journey filled with adventures
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