The water fluctuation allows for a
great sand bed to use as a take off and landing for ultralights
Notice this one has the engine strapped to his back.
We went to town to do some window
browsing and this window had some pretty party dresses. There were
so many stores that were boarded up and very few people in town.
Leaving town you see these colorful
mountains on one side and the salt flats on the other. We drove into
a wind devil (couldn't see any dirt) and the motor home was swaying
back and forth. Tom had a time keeping us on the road.
When we
stopped for lunch and a potty break we realized that the make shift
cardboard cover for the bathroom vent had gone flying off at some point
Came across this man getting around in
what I can only describe as a modified wheel chair. But, notice it
is completely powered by his turning a crank with his arms. He must
have some powerful arm muscles.
Tom was relying on the GPS again. Road
signs can be vague so when I said he needed to turn he followed the
instructions on the GPS. Wrong again. We went around the block to
get back to where we needed to be. There were kids just getting out
of classes for lunch and parents picking them up. We made quite the
spectacle. Then in San Luis where we were to cross back into the US
the GPS kept telling us to turn Right, wrong. Then it kept telling
us off route. We missed the signs where to turn for the boarder
crossing. We followed some signs reading “cargo routa” figuring
that would get us to where we should be. By so doing we where about
1 – 2 blocks from the street we should have been on, so no signs
for the boarder crossing. Luckily we figured out were only a few
blocks off from the street for the boarder crossing. Now we just
waited one hour in line to get to the boarder. The crossing had all
sorts of lines with steel poles. There was no way we could avoid
having one of the mirrors hit a pole. Tom went very slowly so only
hit the mirror enough to turn it into the motor home. Throughout all
of MX we didn't hit a mirror and now trying to get into the US we do.
So we declare how much liquor we have on board, dog food, cat food,
one avocado, eggs only hard boiled and various lunch meats. We had
emptied our freezer, no raw chicken or any other meat that we perhaps
couldn't take across. Because we had an avocado, and supposedly too
much liquor (Tom's beer tripped us up) we had to go to the inspection
area. Twenty minutes later they came to check the refrigerator.
They were so concerned with the avocado because
it had a seed in it. They said we could keep the avocado if we took
the seed out! So I cut it and gave them the seed . They were
so concerned with the avocado they didn't ask to see the vaccination
certificates for the pets. They didn't even check to see if we had
too much liquor on board or the type of dog / cat food we had.
Now we are in Yuma and trying to get
everything fixed. Well hopefully that will go better than trying to
get the laundry done. The washer and dryers use a card and the
machine to get a card and add money kept telling me unable to
complete transaction. Even people with a card couldn't add money to
the card as they got an error code too. Hopefully a better day
tomorrow. Oh, for a lavandria where you drop off the laundry and
come back in the afternoon all washed, dried and folded.
So, now we have to decide where we are headed next.
