Mazatlan

Wednesday, Dec 19 we left the Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Nogales, Arizona, our jumping off place to Mexico, where we had spent the night and did some last minute shopping. We headed south across the border stopping at Kilometer 21 for our visitor Visas and vehicle permits. We spent that night in Guaymas at a beachfront hotel built in 1936 with an RV park in back. The hotel is still a pretty classy place and the RV park is spacious and well-maintained. Thursday night, was a different story. The Los Mochis RV park is also old, but has seen better days. We won't be staying there again.

Friday we arrived at Las Jaibas (the Crab) RV Park in warm, sunny Mazatlan, where we will stay for the next five weeks. We made some great friends here last year, most of who were already here. The park is really full this year, due to closing of three other RV parks, the land having been sold to developers of high-rise condos and time-shares. Fortunately we had made reservations, as we took the last available spot. All told, we had a great trip down, the highways and weather were good and we didn’t get lost once.