Was an early morning start we left by 7:30am all in good spirits all looking forward to getting to our destination, not really the long drive. Was mostly uneventful trip this time. Highways were not too bad till the last stretch from Santa Ana to Peurto Penasco. Then the I don't wanna be here now creeps in to your mind as the day gets long feeling.
Santa Ana has a left turn to highway 2 and as you travel through this part of the town there are people trying to sell there vegetables in the center of the road holding up asparagus & clear bottles of some sort of pepper 🌶️ or olives not sure as I was mostly trying to steer my way through without hitting another Tope, people, or cars that come out from side roads like they aren't going to stop. Polly is always jumping up and taking deep breaths as we go through a town.
We stopped for fuel ⛽ in Santa Ana and moved ahead a bit to another station as they thought they could charge us to park and have a sandwich in the stations lot, bugger that we moved to the next bigger station, parked and ate as well as fed the dogs there that were begging, got a soft spot I'm our hearts for the very skinny dogs around there.
After our sandwich & a short rest off we go for what seems like a nice 2+2 lane divided highway till Caborca, then it changed. Through the town it seemed to take forever, Alto 🛑 stop was every 1-2 short blocks, broken up by the road going down in to a lower area then up again like going through a huge ditch, flood control. After awhile the signs got further apart and the road turned into the narrow, rough highway we remembered from our last trip here in March 2020.
No pictures this trip, I was the leader of this trip, and driving left little time to think of photos, I do have some in my mind though. Desert mostly, and as we got closer to Peurto Penasco the road got worse in some areas, rough edges, very steep from the road to the ditch sometimes, and of course the potholes, dodging these were a job in itself.
One of the nicest sights was the water in the distance as we got closer, then the building's in the distance, we know we're close now, and I'm sure we all just wanted to be there now, still a 1/2 hour yet to go.
We took a different route this time, Rock suggested it, and turned out to be a very good plan. Went around the heavy traffic areas and with one unexpected tope at the roundabout that as Mike said "all 4 weeks were in the air" gave us one heck of a shock as I was looking to get into the roundabout and make the turn, I didn't see the tope and nether did Polly till the last second.
We got to our destination without a hitch, altered the GPS on the go & Bonito RV park was on the right of the last round driveway. Ahh, the office now, and where do we go, what your booking us in now? We have had reservations for months, and your now trying to get us in? The guy's says you're lucky to have spots, the place is full, this is best we can do. Not near the beach, but all together.
No to pay, nope don't accept visa, cash or check ✔️, WOW that was a surprise. So today I'm going to get cash, as a cheque seems antiquated to me now. We will need some more$ anyway.
Our sites are backed up to each other, not as we would like, but all's good now.
We all setup, neighbors are wanting to meet us, as I'm really interested in getting the trailer hooked up. Rick is one neighbor, the others I'll have to remeet today.
Tired, and ready for a break we sat outside till the sun went down, and got reacquainted with friends we haven't seen for awhile Glen & Margret, friends we had met in San Carlos in 2020. Seems such a long time ago. We had some hugs, and after a few laughs, and having them meet Mike and Sharon we walked down to Puesta del Sol, a restaurant in walking distance down the pathway along the front of our RV park.
Dinner was great, cheers to meeting again & new friendships being made. An odd thing happened at dinner, everybody was very happy with there dinner, no complaints! Food was hot and all see ed at the same time. Drinks were cool, and the waiter was great! Made for a very nice ending to a tiring days end.
We walked home, and Marg and Glen went to there site at a park beside ours, and bed was next for me. What a day I think now as I write, we are here, Tony & Christine we will reconnect with today too, people we met in 2020. I saw there is a poker game sometime this week, going to check that out sure.
Beach is beautiful, sun is out, I'm a coffee ☕ away from going outside again.
What a fun life, love our life ♥️🤗
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