feliz navidad!
i tried to log on yesterday, but all the
places were closed.
oh my, where to start, where to start.
at the airport in vancouver .... our reservations
had been cancelled, but they managed to put us
on another flight leaving precious little time
to make our connection in lax - two minutes short
of the required minimum actually. luckily our
connecting flight was areolita (or something like
that) and didn't have a long check in. come to
think of it, we were the only ones. going thru
security took a while longer, but okay.
we had about an hour layover in hermesillio (sp?)
and the flew on the diagonal directly over san carlos
across the sea of cortez into the setting sun and
loreto.
peter had typed a note for us to give to the
taxi driver, giving him directions to the trailor
compound, so that worked out fine.
so, impressions of loreto. it's beautiful.
it took a few days to 'come down' and go slow, but
we're there now. the first few days were really
quiet - empty restaurants and bars, hardly any
touristas, but it has picked up a bit now. there
are a lot of gringos who live here for months at
a time many from canada and western u.s. the hang
out of choice is macaws where we met a few. the
first question is 'when did you retire' or 'what
did you used to do?'
anyway, we don't stay long at macaws anymore. at
first the football games would be on, but then we
discovered that during the week during happy hour
faux news was blaring so we discovered the oasis bar
down the street. the bartender has worked the bar
for 30 odd years and makes the BEST marguerita in
loreto.
the gringos abode of choice is usually a fifth wheel
set up on a pad, covered with a palapa, with a tiled
courtyard surrounded with a palm fence for privacy.
most of outside kitchens - barbeques, hammocks, showers,
- everything youcan think of is outside. the recent
hurricane was an anomoly, 2 inches of rain annually is
the norm. yet, it has lots of palm trees and coconut
trees and flowers and greenery.
it seems to be more mexican than san carlos and iwish
i learned more spanish. the people respond to the
slightest effort at speaking spanish and are very
helpful. we're already think about coming back and
what kind of place we'd like to have, and how a little
24 ft day sailor is all we'd need.
we've reserved a car and are driving up to mulege on |
