Man with gun awakens Daniele
Another short day, 3 hours and 109 miles. Daniele is excited: says it was the first time she has ever awoken to a young soldier standing over her carrying a gun! Geeze, if I had known, I would have carried a gun more often! What happened was that as we get closer to the US border, we will start encountering military checkpoints looking for guns and drugs. At this one, they were walking through every RV and even making the 18 wheelers back into a loading dock and opening the doors for checking. Our 2 soldiers spoke no English but were very polite. One was fascinated with the dogs and wanted to know their names. The other one checked the coach fairly carefully and is the one Daniele saw when she woke up. I recognized his collar patch as being artillery and he was excited that I knew that. I suspect that they rotate units on this duty. Was not a big deal and we were soon on our way to another check point, this time for agriculture (California does the same thing). The various states are trying to protect their crops and try to stop import of fruits and some veggies. For the first time at one of these the nice inspector came in but just looked at the fruit bowl (that was empty), glanced around and said adios.
The route continues through intense agriculture areas with lots of irrigation, even though we’re getting into the Sonora desert. Again, we continue to get waves from everywhere. We found our park (El Mirador in Huatabampito www.el_mirador.tripod.com) and again, fantastic (If you find Navojoa on your map, look SW on the coast and you might see this village…it is very small though.) This one has a very nice restaurant and we’re closer to the water than we have ever been. The beach is almost deserted in every direction. There are only 3 other RV’s here. The dogs can run loose and had a ball. Surf is very calm but the water is a bit cool. We just chilled out in the sun and then had another fantastic meal of shrimp.
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