Howdy friends and family,
Today we're resting in Caliente Casa de Sol, an adult retirement travel trailer and rv resort in Florence, AZ.
Just to catch up a little on our trip so far, we left San Carlos on Monday, March 1st and drove up to Santa Ana in Sonora state in Mexico. We didn't have that long a drive and arrived around 12 noon so we settled into a very small, privately run campground. Edgar and his American wife, Anna, greeted us very kindly and showed us where to park our rig. By the evening there were two other families in with us. One rig was from Colorado. The other, a b class, was from BC. We had a good night's sleep despite being right on the highway and were up and on the road by 7:30 am. We got to Km 21 and were out of there very quickly. The vehicle permit sticker was removed with efficiency and we were on our way again. One question we had was: what do we do with our temporary visitor permits? No one seemed to know there so we just kept on going. We were at the Nogales border crossing by 10 am (yes the truck crossing, lol) but the line up was long and we were in line for an hour before we reached the booth. We were asked to pull over and we did without any hesitation. We were boarded and searched by two very nice women officers and one fellow who came on board to say hello to Weaver. We sat and chatted for a while; the one lady offered Weaver doggie treats which he accepted very politely. She was a dog handler and I think Weaver knew she was carrying something in her pockets. He sat beside her all the time she was sitting down. The only thing they wanted to check was the dog food. We had cleaned out all the fruits (courtesy of the fruit police earlier in our trip) and had cooked our chicken up in Santa Ana.
We headed out to Tucson where we stopped at San Xavier Insurance Company where we had purchased our Mexican vehicle insurance. Suzan and her staff were very accommodating to us and she gave us her business cards and some Mexican maps. Anyone want them, just get in touch with us. We'll go there next year to get our insurance.
We started using the Magellan we bought at the beginning of our trip. Actually this one was the replacement we received when our original purchase broke down and Dave and Kelsi brought it to us from home. We got a little lost because the Magellan lady (I'll call her Ruby) didn't know that one of the roads was closed because of flooding. We were able to get back on the freeway very easily and onto the highway we wanted to get to Myrna's home in Merill Ranch.
Myrna and Amanda (Mike's niece and gr. niece) were out shopping but showed up a few minutes after we got there. We stayed to visit for a while and then Mave and Myrna went on a rv park hunt. We found the Caliente and went back to the house where Mike was anxious to get going and parked before dark.
We parked overnight in the Clubhouse parking lot and in the morning Mike went to see the office lady, Diane, about renting a spot. Seems it turns out that all these lots are owned and if we want to stay here we have to usually know someone here who has a lot or unit for rent. She gave us a list of owners wanting to rent/sell their lots/units and we found one. The owner was willing to rent to us for $120. a week. It's a nice lot. Our rig fit on it ok. The lot sizes only hold rigs up to 36 feet so we were within the size limit. It's nice and warm out right now so we're cooling it inside and relaxing until we can get a hold of Myrna.
More news later,
Mave n Mike n Weaver the Wonder dog aka Brutus
