Of Pirates and Stop signs in La Paz
Where do I begin? We are back on Sosiego as she sits tied to a dock in La Paz Mexico. We are staged and ready to set sail for Mazatlan tomorrow. The new flexible solar panels are installed and the propane is topped off. We will fill up with Diesel in the morning. Laundry is done and provisions stored. The only fly in the ointment has been the plan administrator at Sutter’s retirement center. If they move any slower Deb’s going to need a green card to work in Mexico.
We have been very busy getting ready to depart but we have made several trips into the city that have been interesting. Driving in Mexico is a death defying experience that relies heavily on bravado. When approaching a four way stop sign one glance for on coming traffic and makes eye contact with other drivers. The one with the most bravado steps on the gas rather than the brake and takes ownership of the intersection. As you can imagine there are frequent close calls and colorful words. In my opinion ALTO is simply a suggestion and not a requirement.
The community of cruisers in La Paz band together to help new arrivals and ex pats. The mornings are for coffee and listening to the morning,” Net”. That is, we all sit around listening to the vhf radio while we swap things for coconuts and talk about the days activities. I only bring this up because I nearly wore my coffee when one boat identified itself as,” Puddle Pirate”. Now I must say that is a creative name and everyone keeps telling me to keep an eye out for pirates so I’m reporting my first sighting. Please tell all the puddles you know to watch out in La Paz.
So far AGACE has been a non issue in La Paz but we have all are documentation ready and are here at the boat so we will press on. Anyone interested in more info should check out Lectronic Latitude at the Latitude 38 website.
P.S. We made an excursion to the platinum movie theater for the ultimate movie going experience. Leather covered recliners with full bar and food services. We saw,”YO Frankenstein” huddled under blankets with Beer and popcorn
