We had been warned about police road blocks around Mazatlán, but what do you do. We were stopped and told by a very young good looking cop that we were doing over the speed limit. Of course we weren’t – he had no radar. As he stood there in his very well pressed uniform, …
Category Archives: Mexico
Last days in La Penita, Mexico
At the moment we are back in the cold rainy weather of Bryce Canyon, Utah. We are staying in the rv park so I am taking advantage of the power and wifi to post some photos. Back to La Penita, Mexico. I could watch these Mexican brown pelicans fishing all day. It appears I have …
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Puerto Vallarta While staying in La Penita we were so close to Puerto Vallarta that I couldn’t leave without seeing it. I watched the “Love boat” dock there so many times as a kid, unfortunately Acapulco apparently has too much cartel activity to make it save so we never got to see the …
1,2 skip a few La Peñita de Jaltemba
We have settled in to the RV park at La Penita for a week of much needed R & R for Sally and myself and exams for the kids after a bit of hustle and bustle to get here. We had to drive into the outskirts of Guadalajara to get diesel exhaust fluid. I had …
Santa Clara Del Cobre
We caught a couple of combi buses to Santa Clara. This is a small town just outside Pátzcuaro that specializes in copper work. We chatted to an ex-teacher that worked in Melbourne for a few years and has now retired to Santa Clara. He pays $75 a month for rent and sells sugar cane juice …
Island Janitzio on Lake Patzcuaro
Island Janitzio on Lake Patzcuaro We caught the 50cent combi bus over to the lake, hopped on a ferry, past the fishermen and onto the island. All very easy and cheap. Island Janitzio is a bit like Mexicos version of Frances Mont Saint Michel. You walk up a narrow lane filled with shops and …
Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
It is definitely a magic town. Lovely place to stop, high altitude so nice and cool, 50c combi buses to take you into the centro. Huge markets, where we stopped to have lunch, the chicken soup was lovely as you would expect, but the red soup tasted like cow poo smells, yuck! I asked …
San Juan del Lago on Lake Cuitzeo.
Campsite on the edge of Laguna Cuitzeo. We were the only ones there, just us, the humming birds, wild horses and snakes. It was lovely and peaceful……….. Until ………..driving out of the camp site, still on their driveway, the peace was shattered. The top of the camper hit a low overhanging branch which punched …
On the Road to San Juan Benito Juarez
Well the sat nav took us for another detour through the old town today. The road we took was marked on the map as a yellow road which is a major road. We later looked at google maps and found that the road we should have taken was in the opposite direction onto the toll …
Mariposa Monarch Reserve Mexico
To get there it was a long drive up a winding road with the caravan, we camped over night and then took a horse ride further up the hill to the oyamel fir trees where the butterflies migrate to each year. The horse trail was steeper than it looks in the photos. The route the …