Mexico

We finally arrived in Mexico. We are staying in the CRA (Colorado River Adventures) Beach Resort called El Golfo, in El Golfo de Santa Clara, a small fishing village on the Sea of Cortez.

Our trailer reflecting the setting sun. This is early in January and the evenings were quite cool.

The view from our site.

We are 90 miles South of Yuma in the Sonoran desert on the Sea of Cortez, aka the Gulf of California. Because it is a desert, we get very little rainfall. But occasionally it does rain here in paradise.

Occasionally, it storms and the sea gets angry. If you look closely at the picture of the view from our site, you will notice several yellow electrical pedestals near the sea wall. There are two reasons that no one is on them. First, only CRA members can stay on a beach site and only for two weeks. Long-term campers don't want to move after two weeks. Second, during a storm the waves come over the wall. Last year, the sites got washed away, but they are now rebuilt. Being on the wall might get you hustling in the middle of the night to move away from violent waves crashing over your rig.

Our little palm tree is taking a beating. It did keep our chair from blowing away.

The sea wall being pounded by the waves.

100 feet of sea wall was undermined and fortunately did not collapse during the storm.

It has all been repaired now and is ready for the next big storm. The wash out was about eight feet deep.

We have recently decided to stay in Mexico and not return to New England this summer. That doesn't mean that we won't be doing any traveling. We still don't own a home and will continue to live full time in our RV. Right now, the plan is to leave Mexico in early June and return in early September. I think Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana will keep us plenty busy.

Our next few posts will be about what makes this place such a nice place to stay. If any of you RVers out there would like to visit El Golfo, send me a private message on Facebook, or send me an email. You can find that information over on the right-hand side in the web version. 

You can stay as my guest for up to 7 days for $10 a night.

If you are concerned about traveling alone in Mexico, I will be willing to meet you in Yuma and guide you down.

Now that I have Mexican internet, I can finally update my blog while I am in Mexico. Our Verizon international plan only allowed us 0.5 gigs a day, not nearly enough.

Until next time, adios mis amigos.