Travels of Marianne and Tom: Traveling Mex 15

We have been traveling using the Toll Road Mex 15. While it makes for easier and faster driving for Tom it doesn't have much in the way of interesting scenery. All sorts of transportation use the road.

We left Bahia Kino and traveled to San Carlos. We were last here in 2006. Not much has changed, there is now a Leys Express. But we were not impressed. They didn't have everything we wanted and still had to run into WalMart in Guaymas. There isn't much choice in campgrounds, we stayed at Totonaka which is across the street from a rocky beach. In order for me to go kayaking I would have had to take the kayak to Emerald Bay or the Estuary. We needed to do laundry and thought it was great to have a laundry at the campground. The laundry was a disaster. One washing machine leaked and another didn't spin the clothes. The dryers didn't work well and it took 3 tries to get things dry. I had 6 loads and it took us 4 hours to do it. We only stayed 2 days to do laundry and stock up.

From here we were headed for Celestino Gasca. We split the distance by staying one night in Los Mochis. This was the only campground in the city. It was very old and right on the main road. At least the showers were HOT. An interesting ad from days past at the campground.

The road in to Celestino RV.

The Celestrial RV park just South of LaCruz was nice and if you just wanted a beach with surf. It was a good stop. There were other RV parks but noone in them. Celestino only had two other campers besides us. We were told that 5 years ago the place was hopping and all the campgrounds were FULL. Seems to be the theme of this trip. No Visitors. The lack of tourism is really hurting the Mexicans.


The beach in front of Celestino RV

The other two couples and us took a run into La Cruz for supplies and went to the neighborhood bakery (“panaderia”) which is part their home. Can't beat the price 4 pesos each (about 35 cents ea)