11/22/2009, Mexico
This is a picture of a metal scupture in the garden area of the Archeological Museum. It is what is on the Mexican flag.
11-17-09
We went to the Telcel office to get our 3G card reloaded for another month and got mixed up on what to do. We had to go back the next day and get it reloaded and were shown how to send the text message verifying the payment.
The rest of this week was spent in "leisure", not doing too much. Repaired both heads (forward head Rob had plugged and the aft head a part had broken). Got dinghy back today after having "chaps" put on to protect the PVC material (the sun here and further south destroys PVC). We have been serenaded the last couple of nights by a Marachari band on the property to our South. They are having a fishing tournament here this weekend. Well that's about all for now and will do further updates later.
Almost forgot, we have Skype so that we can be in contact with our friends and relatives. The only problem that I have is that Kelly & Judy discovered that they could play Backgammon with each other (while on Skype). They have played about 10 to 12 games within the last 3 days. Haven't been able to update this because of them. HAHA
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11/22/2009, Mexico
This is a picture of a piece from the NID Art. The face is clay and the veil is leather. They had many interesting combinations of this, masks and pictures.
On Friday (the 13th) Judy and I again went downtown and wandered around Old Town. They are re-doing some of the old buildings and other places. We then went to a couple of museums around the area and saw some beautiful "things", from art to archeological items. It was an interesting day.
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11/22/2009, Mexico
This is a picture of the entrance to the opera house. More about that later.
To continue our stay in Mazatlan.
We went shopping, again, this time we went to Sam's Club & Home Depot. We took one of the "local" buses and walked a couple of blocks to Sam's Club. It's just about the same as the one in Ventura (or any other city). Nothing in there seemed to catch our eye, so then we went to Home Depot. We needed a fan; it's in the 85° range here with about 80% humidity, much different then Ventura. I also needed a couple of bolts to fix the step that came loose after our incident leaving Turtle Bay. After leaving Home Depot, we took another of the "golf carts" back to the boat. They are called pulmonias.
On Friday Judy and I again went downtown and wandered around Old Town. They are re-doing some of the old buildings and other places. We went to see the Opera House (Teatro Angela Peralta); it was built between 1869 and 1874. In 1992 a restoration was undertaken to transform the theater from near ruins to the stunningly beautiful theater which hosts year-around musical, theatrical, operatic and dance performances by students as well as world class name entertainers. We then went to a couple of museums around the area and saw some beautiful "things", from art to archeological items. It was an interesting day.
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11/22/2009, Mexico
This is a picture of the field and the managers exchanging line-up. We were in the general admission seats, about like the field box seats at Dodger Stadium.
On Saturday, the 14th, we went to a baseball game in their Stadium. Their teams are in the AAA league and have a few US players on them. The Mazatlan team (Venados) were playing a team from Navojoa (Mayos). The Venados are in first place with a record of 21 & 9. The game was baseball and not much different from any stadium in the US, except that they allow the mascots on the field during the game and they try to get the crowd excited. We went with a group from the marina (total of 30 of us) and had a great time. The best part was that the "beer-tender" was stationed right by our seats and all you had to do was raise your hand and you had another beer (20 pesos - $1.50). Outside the stadium they had various food venders, from hot dogs, cheviche (raw fish cooked in citrus juice - I think the spelling is right), Pizza, tacos and just about anything else you wanted. The Venados won 3-2.
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11/14/2009, Mexico
This is a picture of the entrance to the Cathedral, that we took later. The Cathedral was built in 1939 and has had few alterations. It is beautiful inside.
11-09-09
After a week in Mazatlan, I thought I would tell everyone what we had been doing. We went into town on Monday. They have a "tourist" bus; it's air-conditioned and costs 9 pesos ($0.75) for any length of ride. The "regular" buses are only 6 pesos ($0.50). The ride into town takes about ½ hour. We went to the "Central Market" (Mercado). It's similar to any central market in the world, but maybe not as sanitary as others. The throw a half side of beef on a table and begin cutting it up. They throw the pieces into a bin and the patrons start sifting thru to get the cut they want. As Judy says "I wouldn't buy my meat in this place". The veggie stands are much nicer and we did buy some veggies there.
Across the street is a Cathedral. Judy had brought both of her cameras, but they were both dead, so no pictures today. We walked around town for a little while, after having lunch and then decided to go to the Gran Plaza.
We got on one of the "cheap" buses and held on for dear life as the driver took us out of town. The familiar phase "Tijuana Taxi Driver" was on our minds. The only problem, this was a bus. We arrived safely at the Gran Plaza, it's really just a mall and wandered around it for a while.
We then took off walking for the Mega Store. It's a huge "market". I think that you could buy anything there but a car (I'm not even really sure about that). This store is like the one we went into in Ensenada. We stocked up on some bread, veggies, meat, drinks and a hose (the boat is filthy and needs cleaning). When we left the market we took what I called a glorified golf cart back to the boat. I say that because it's not much bigger and the exhaust was really bad.
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11/13/2009, Mazatlan
This is a portion of the bay outside of old town Mazatlan.
11-05-09
We left San Jose del Cabo at about 6:30 AM. Judy took the first watch, while I tried to get some sleep. We are doing 6 hour watches during the day and 4 hours at night. I came up for my watch at noon and thought that we might be able to sail instead of motoring, we always get the main sail up to motor. We set the jib and had a great sail until about midnight when the wind died down. We had sailed along at about 7 knots for the majority of the time with the wind at about 70° off our port bow. The wind was about 10 to 15 knots, perfect for our point of sail.
We arrived in Mazatlan at about 10 AM, a full 2 hours ahead of our estimated time. We had e-mailed the Marina Mazatlan, the night before we left, but hadn't received conformation for a slip. I got on the internet (about 2 miles off-shore - this 3G card is great) and got the confirming e-mail from them (but no slip number). While I was on the internet, I saw that Wally Nevin (a dock mate from Ventura) had sent me an e-mail asking us where we were. They were in Cabo and not leaving until the next day (Saturday). I told him that we approaching the harbor and would see them when they got here.
After clearing with the office, we went to our assigned slip, lo and behold, Wally and Linda's boat was directly in front of us. They got in on Sunday about 8 AM.
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