Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 84

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 84

Mexico  

3/28/09 – San Carlos – Totonaka RV Park

192 miles and 5 hours.  Or thereabouts.  We miss going on a side trip to Topolobampo while in Los Mochis.  I am not sure what is there, but the map shows a toll road going to it, an airport near it and with a name like that, how could we resist?  We did.  We get on the road again, or almost on the road again, when we find out that Hugh and Barbara have a tire going flat on their RV.  They do not want to try and change it in the park, so the tail gunner (Des and Arlene, who also need gas), follow them.  We are close behind.  We have to turn right, even though we want to go left, but the retorno is very close and very spacious. Maybe it is actually a glorietta.  Either way, there are about three different tire stores on this glorietta alone and we spot Hugh and Barbara as we pass one of them.  They got it fixed and caught up before we had a chance to miss them.  Again, very lucky. 

Local Business

Getting Close

On the road we see familiar fence posts made out of cement, with strings of barbed wire.  We see many more new power lines, which we recognize as new, since the old power poles, sometimes with drooping unconnected lines, are still in place.  The weather remains sunny and the price of diesel has gone up a little. For some reason we miss everyone a little more when we are on the road.  We get closer and closer to Obregon.  As we do, the area around the road we are on gets more brown, dry and the housing more bare-looking.  It appears that the farm areas in Mexico are more depressed here.  A reflection of the US trend?  Obregon is a large city that has many silos and food processing businesses.  It does not appear to be a main tourist area.  Another thing that we continue to see in most parts of Mexico, are young people wearing white vests with red crosses on them, asking for contributions almost everywhere. We have been told they are legitimately collecting money for the Red Cross. 

Closer

We bypass Guaymas and have to ‘retorno’ back south to reach San Carlos. This area is great.  The same weird shaped, small, rugged, strange mountains that are in Arizona, Baja Mexico and other parts of Mexico are here and live right by the ocean.  I am thinking that maybe Mexico took the mountains that were in Texas and placed them in strategic places here in Mexico.  They have so many.  The water is back to being jewel-like and … we have to get parked and set up first.  The right turn into the RV park was pretty easy from the two lane highway.