After checking weather reports and speaking to RVers headed for Mazatlan, I have decided to renew the room in San Carlos for tonight and push on to Los Mochis tomorrow, where I will likely be truck camping, arriving in Mazatlan on Thursday. That’s the plan at least unless I hear to do otherwise from people on the ground there. The biggest question mark is if the road to Isla is passable or not.
The RVers I spoke to are experienced in Mexico, know the road between here and Mazatlan, know their RVing capabilities, and have had experience reading these kinds of forecasts. They are all deciding to wait this extra day and will do the drive straight to Mazatlan tomorrow! Wow! They say it’s a 10-hour drive for them pulling, but they are allowing themselves another two hours for weather and will leave around 5AM! I will probably leave here noonish to get to Los Mochis dinnertimeish. If I do end up truck camping, I won’t want to have to spend a whole afternoon and evening at a truck stop!
The clerk at the office gave me directions to a nearby beach. Can you believe that I have never swam in the Pacific Ocean?! I need to find some sun screen and flip flops and am kicking myself for forgetting my beach hat! I’ll have to see if I can find an inexpensive one here.
I also asked the office manager about the best coffee in town and he told me to go to the Oxxo! I found that my cup today was even better than yesterday’s. It always takes a bit of time for my taste buds to adjust to a new coffee and decide if they like it or not.
On the way back from the office, a lady carrying a bucket stopped me. I looked inside the bucket and saw shrimp. I said no thank you and she was surprised and crestfallen. I explained that my room doesn’t have a kitchen and she went, ‘Ah! Okay!’ and left with no hard feelings. 🙂
I just received an email from my neighbours Caroline and Charles advising me that they just had a major windstorm that took half the shingles off another neighbour’s roof! This storm shifted the tarp I used to cover my RV, leaving my roof exposed. That must have been some storm seeing as we had super, super high winds before I left and my second attempt at tarping didn’t even budge in those winds! Being the wonderful folk that they are, C&C resecured the tarp for me and now I know it will be okay for the whole winter! I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about home. And, yes, I miss home. 🙂 I’m really looking forward to being settled in the apartment and getting back into my routine and feeling like I’m ‘home’ again. Vagabonding is tiring! 😀