Monday, February 18, 2008

Bufadora in the Baja

Carol’s bit

Got to Mexico yesterday, Tecate, went through as fast as possible, you don’t drive at night here or park in vulnerable places. Parked at a nice little RV park, and we found GRASS the real stuff, so Charro had lots of smells this morning. We had a frost too, I thought we were coming to the warm sun.
Went into Encinada today , quite a nice shopping precinct very clean and guess what !
I know where C & A went.
Got down to Bufadora, a peninsula off the main road. There was a nice little market there,
and the market traders are genuinely friendly and there were some nice things on sale. We try not to buy stuff because there is nowhere to put it and we don’t need it. We sold most of our stuff before we came, no sense in collecting more. We are personalising the RV though, so we got a small wall plaque that depicts the Mayan calendar and put it over the door. We bought some Churros for breakfast ( sugared doughnut sticks ) very healthy. The ground is rough here on the Peninsula but we managed to park for the night next to a field in the market car park, and managed to collect some nice wild flowers. There are some very attractive plants here, but we dare not keep any permanently in the RV they will be taken from us at the US boarder.
Someone was selling Bassett pups, one of them was just wandering around the shop. I gave him a cuddle and he wouldn’t let go, I don’t think Mexican dogs get too much affection, they bark , therefore they are useful for guarding what little the people have.
There are packs wandering around, but I think they belong to different people, they are fed and have to find there own bed somewhere on the property, and it the law of the fittest and smartest.

John’s Bit

Bufadora was good with the blowhole being pretty spectacular.
We only had a 5 foot surf yet we were getting 50 foot plus blows, just like a giant breating.

We have a free to air satellite system but it has been really hard to get it to set up and working. We are at the limit of our dish’s ability to capture the signals so anytime we move around or a butterfly flaps it’s wings we lose the signal. That plus some software issues has had me tearing my hair out and picking wildflowers to mellow out from the stress of working out from a badly written handbook what to do next.

Still last night was a breakthrough, we got 400 channels [and still nothing to watch]

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