End Week Five 1/3/09

Week Five 12/28-1/3 - Happy New Year

Settled into a regular routine in this very remote but beautiful RV park right on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Regular walk away exercises, water aerobics, desert golf, hot tubs, reading, and just enjoying the serenity and scenery and beautiful sun sets. Some new after the Christmas Holiday RV’s beginning to come in. Looking forward to “clamming and fishing”. Also our kayak’s have been quiet because of too much wind, hopefully this will change. Rigged up our hammock we bought at EAA last summer, really light parachute type material strong enough for two. Works great tied off on the fifth wheel pin and the awning leg, so no trees needed. Nice shade too, great for reading or a nap.

News Years Eve celebrated in the park, pot luck snacks, local Mexican band, lots of dancing, drinks and concluding with fireworks. Ball dropping at 10:00pm mountain time so a NY eastern time Happy New Year! So not a real late night, in bed by 11:00pm mountain time, but a really fun night. New Years Day a 2:00pm pot luck lunch/dinner with bowl games being played in the club house.

Scramble golf tournament on Friday the 2^nd. Saturday the 3^rd, biscuits and gravy breakfast in the club house. We were going to kayak with a couple of other couples, but the seas to rough, so put off for another day.

Shari and I decided to take the truck down to the beach and ride the beach to the point off the island, advised ok after discussing with a fellow park RV’er, asking if we had four wheel drive. I quickly responded “yes”, but neglected to tell him about the “dulleys”. (Dulleys don’t do real well in soft sand) Well about 3-4 miles down the beach we got stuck. Front wheels buried up to the axle. Nobody around for miles. No shovel. So Shari said we have a plate from breakfast, so I began digging with a plate. Got down to the bottom of the tire and started filling the tracks with rocks from the beach. I was terribly relieved when we got out. Now the problem was to figure out how to turn around and get the hell outa here. Any slight turn of the wheel would bury the tires again. Stuck again. More plate shoveling and rocks. Out again. Backed up for about ½ mile, then gunned it for a quick turn. We made it. Back to park safe & happy. Won’t do that again. RV park friend said we should have lowered our tire pressure to avoid getting stuck. Now he tells me.

Evening, a large group, 30 or so from the park, went into “Panchos” (mom & pop place) for dinner. Yeha, the rough 12 mile road into town. Shari and I left the park early to do some shopping in the village 20 miles further up the road. Met the group at Panchos a little after 4:00pm. Brown bagged our own margaritas, Pancho serves no alcohol and brown bagging permitted. Pancho made a batch of his special soup, can’t pronounce, but good! Had a great time. Good original Mexican food. Back to RV by 7:00pm.

End of Week Five