San Felipe, Mexico Finally!!

We left Yuma Wednesday AM, made it to the Eastern Mexicali border crossing no problem and that's where the fun began! First they have signs: Commercial Trucks this way, Cars that way, so we take the truck lane figuring it's for large vehicles but no, when we get up there the US Customs people make us pull a big U turn and go back to the Car route, fine. So we get there and the Mexican border guard asks for registration papers for RV and Dodge, and we had been so careful to have all titles on hand, but not registration papers, so we scramble around and finally produce the correct paperwork and that was it, we were through! Next Challenge: to make it through the maze of Mexicali. My instructions were old and we turned too soon, ended up headed into a barrio fairly quickly when suddenly appeared a very nice Mexican gentleman in a Corolla with California plates, "Sir, are you lost?" and gave us instructions on how get back on main road out of town, but that was quite a journey, almost ended up in an underground parking structure, but finally made it onto Highway 5 south. When we got to San Felipe we unhooked the truck and went looking at RV parks on the beach, chose one and went back to get the RV, me driving the truck, Mike following, and at the very last minute, almost to our final destination, I take a wrong turn and Mike decides to go the other way and we got separated for about 20 minutes, Mike lost and wandering the hillside neighborhoods and me just about out of gas! I decide to do another loop and we meet up at an intersection just as he was about to turn the wrong way, so I led him back to the campground! And here we are!!

The View from my front window!

Yesterday the tide was out and Mike fished while I swam, it was so delightful! Then we went to town, found the ATM, that was interesting as it's all in Spanish, had ice cream on the Malecon, (boardwalk) and paid our space rent, $5206 pesos, about $375 USD, includes incredibly good WiFi! And I have my own Palapa! We have neighbors from California, and Washington state, nice people! We have a lot more exploring to do. Happy Halloween!