Day 17, March 1. 2007

As you can see, this was an early start day as we had to cover 266 miles to the border. We drove hard with just a few stops as we were all ready to get back to the USA and a little anxious about crossing the border. Why, I don't know. We are going home! We got the to Aduana/Frontera office and they came on board to remove our holograms of importation of our vehicles. About 10 more miles up the road we passed through Mexican customs. Glad we didn't have to get in the truck lanes as they had very, very long lines. American customs was a piece of cake. Handed out our passports and they were handed right back and we were directed to a holding area for agricultural inspection. He just came on board, asked if we had any chicken, eggs or plants. I told him that they were cooked. He looked into the freezer at the same time and said, "You've been through this drill before!" I said yes and he turned around and walked out and told us to have a nice day. We drove about 40 miles up the road to a nice campground to add water, dump and do some laundry. Many passed over the border and headed on their own way. We got to say some quick good-byes over the CB radio but it will be strange not following in a caravan this morning when we leave and I really will miss "Thumper" checking our tires in the morning. This is what we affectionately called our tail gunner.

Many few friendships were made and old ones better cemented, so until the next time, Happy Trails and don't forget to visit our two photo albums.

www.picasaweb.google.com/mimmexico/MexicoCaravan

and www.picasaweb.google.com/mimmexico/MexicoCaravanII.

Day 16, February 28, 2007

The drive from Los Alamos to San Carlos on the coast of Sonora, Mexico, was only 160 or so miles. This is the entrance to the RV Park that we stayed in there.

Los Alamos was a town built of old money from the gold and silver days and has and is being refurbished to it's original condition and was very modern in comparison to the many towns that we had already been in. San Carlos is new money, mostly brought in by the Canadians and Americans.

There are MANY new homes being built in this small fishing/yachting town and we were told that the cost of building at this time was about $105/square foot. Each house had about 10 Mexicans working on it and there had to be hundreds being currently built all over San Carlos. We just wondered where they were living as we didn't see the typical Mexican housing anywhere that we went. This was the view from the back of the RV Park.

We had our farewell dinner right there in a lovely room at the RV Park. Mike is saying a few last words and then we ate. After dinner most of us went back to our coach's to get ready for departure.