Archive for 2013

Mar 23, 2013

Que Pasa?

About 9:30PM an RV pulls in.  They had no idea that there was an RV park down the road. This couple have been on the road for three months, from San Francisco right to the tip of Panama.  Nine countries in 3 months.  They boondocked most of the way and as David said he has […]

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Mar 22, 2013

What the heck/Semana Santa

Palapas are being built and remodelled. The entire community is in a beehive of activity.  This is the opportunity to make a lot of money over the next few weeks.  We are seeing new vendors on the beach selling beach umbrellas, candy, different clothes and toys.  A surfboard rental area has been set up.  Likely […]

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Mar 20, 2013

Amazing Race

Monday we went into town and felt like we were on a leg of the TV show Amazing Race!  From having to jump into the panga as it drifted away from the pier to trying to communicate with a non responsive pulmonia driver!  I was on a mission to track down Carmen, a modista ( […]

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Mar 20, 2013

NO MONEY UPDATE

There are three HSBC banks here in Mazatlan and we will go to one in the next few days to try our ATM cards once again.  Thinking back I believe that over the years we have only used an HSBC ATM and that was mostly by accident. Meanwhile I have called our CIBC VISA people […]

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Mar 19, 2013

NEED YOUR HELP

Yesterday we went into town for a few things which I will relate in another post.  One thing we needed to do was get some pesos as we are almost on empty.  We have not used an ATM machine here in Mazatlan since the end of January.  We went to a bank in Centro to […]

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