We left at 8:00 a.m from Needles travelling through barren, scrubby desert through Parker, Quartzite and on to Yuma! Many RVers just boondock in the middle of the desert; heaven knows why! Arrived in Yuma and got lost again! Our GPS pointed us in one direction and our friends who had the actual address of the resort turned and took a different route! We ended up next to a bare sandy lot and "Martha" told us we had arrived at our destination. After turning in one direction we ended up on a major 4 lane HWY. We finally spotted the resort from there, and realized if we had turned left instead of right we would have ended up at our resort. During the time we were in Yuma we went to a huge Arizona market, it sold everything from clothing, shoes, to RV stuff.
On January 10th we went over the border to LOs Algodones and purchased our tourist visa. What a show that town is . . vendors hawking dental, optical, viagra services. Very congested with these shops. Returned over to the US a couple of hours later and the US border guard told us we were too young to be in the Yuma area. He's right . . the average age of people here is probably 20 years older! And, you don't see any kids around!
Next issue, getting our MX vehicle/RV insurance. Visited an insurance agency in Yuma and the quote was $300 more than an online quote. Decided to do it online. 74 pages later wehad it!
Jan. 12th we arrived in San Felipe. Crossed the MX border at Mexicali around 9:30 a.m. and no one there. Our RV did get searched by two cute little Mexican girls who were more interested in how long it took to get there from Canada. Stopped at Costco enroute, led there by a friendly taxi driver! HWY good all the way . . had to stop at a military checkpoint about 49 km out of town . . they're checking for drugs. So another inspection. Phil and Doreen havn't yet been inspected as they have a boat and motor strapped to the back of their camper!
When we arrived in San Felipe, no RV parks are advertised so again, we're aimlessly towing a 30 ft RV around on roads we have no idea where they go to! Finally stopped and a friendly Mexican fellow on a bike lead us to an RV park called Club de Pesca and we are parked mere feet from the beautiful blue Sea of Cortez. Got ourselves settled in and breathed a sigh of relief and celebrated with margeritas!
We've driven and walked around town. There are no tourists and there are so many vacant buildings it is extremely sad. The jewellry vendors are selling silver at ridiculous prices, $5 US for a genuine silver bracelet!
Tonight we are going to the Taste of San Felipe. Will let you know what it was like!
Time to get into the sun!
Sounds like you are enjoying yourselves. Take care and don't take any wooden nickels. Billyd @ bilsyl7@shaw.ca
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