5C's Que Pasa

So in between booking new flights to Edmonton and about 1000 emails sorting things out we got our plant pots planted .  Last year with the selling of the house and the building of this one we did not plant anything.  It has been so very very hot here but the forecast is for cooler [...]

We just found out that our friend Elmer is going to sell his lot here at Holiday Park so the push is on for us to get the RV into storage.  After a very successful morning of sales calls Colin headed over to do the dumping and exterior cleaning of the RV.  We can do [...]

We stopped at Love’s in Tehachapi as Colin had another tire question.  Oil was spewing from the lugs and he just wanted to check that that was normal.  Back on the road 10 minutes later.  It took until 11:30AM for the outside temperature to reach 65F, our lows on the Isla.  What a strange spring [...]

As we drove I was working on our fuel problem and why we needed so many more litres in Soynata.  After much discussion and reviewing my notes ( I love having all my travel notes with me ) from 2009 to now I was able to piece it together.  We always fuel up at the [...]

When we woke up at 6:30AM in San Carlos we were freezing.  It was 56F outside and 61F inside. First thing we did was turn on the furnace.  While Colin filled that stubborn inside dual tire I prepared fruit and coffee for driving.  We aren’t convinced that we actually have a leak in the tire [...]

Projected information ~ 6 hours and 300 miles. We had a fabulously quiet and relaxing sleep at the Los Mochis RV Park….well worth the 250 pesos.  We awoke to the sun coming in the bedroom window. We were on the road by 9:00AM.  The first stop today was a new check  by the PGR  ( [...]

No internet yesterday so here is Day 1 and I will post Day 2 a bit later. I have decided that 10 to 12 hour driving days are no longer my friend so hence the new 300 mile per day rule. We have never been to the RV Park in Los Mochis but had heard [...]

Hasta Noviembre! See you in November!!  That is what we have been saying over and over, even to the people working in the mercado.  They now know why they won’t be seeing us for several months but that we will be back.  In reply they all wish us a safe trip.  Viaje seguro or buen [...]

Little by little. Bit by bit….that is how we are packing up. We have rented a bodega ( garage ) this year which is allowing us to store much more ‘stuff’ here on the Isla.  Much less to pack back and forth to Canada.  

Over the last 18 months Colin has started to do photography here in Mazatlan and of course Isla de la Piedra.  He has always done photography in Culiacan both for the International Guitar Festival and for the various featured artists over the past eight years.  Now he is expanding and actually doing commissioned photography shoots [...]