This looks like Paradise, doesn't it? Well the residednts of Mar Rosa, an rv park in Mazatlan, right in the hotel zone and on the beach - expensive real estate: were complaining, shivering, wearing heavy clothing. We had left PV in 80 degree weather, and found that the frozen north had arrived in the tropics. We cooked a fast dinner and went to bed with both sleeping blankets on top, and later, both dogs crawled up on the bunk....the van/ rv has a good sized bed, but not that big!
The road was full of the usual cows, and critters, but pretty empty - a herd of huge horned white charolai menaced the highway and we couldn't find any keepers around to keep an eye on them. There are signs of spring, in this freeze, trees that are totally bare of leaves have strange yellow flowers - shades of the Shop of Little Horrors, and the cinder cones are covered with green fuzz. Heading north means putting on socks, and finding out that the temperature in Scottscale is 13 degrees. And that the Canadians brought this strange weather down from home.
We found a very nice trailer park in Ciudad Obregon, but rented one the the rooms - and piled the sleeping bags on the bed. Still freezing. It was great getting over the border the next day, and we checked into a motel and pigged out on Jack in the Box, bypassing the Gem Show in Tucson. In years past we would have been right in there spending our kid's inheritance.....this year we buy food to take back. And will sell all the beads at the garage sale. I hope. It was fun to create the jewelry - but will have to stay in one place to market the stuff. Or Ebay when we are 98.
We got as far as the gate to the beach above and I was mentioning watching the sunset when Robert suggested not- too cold for romance. I think all of Mazatlan was hunkered down in heavy clothing wondering if romance is worth removing clothes.
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