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February 11. It is yet another travel day. They seem to come so often. It seems like you would get used to the roads but a number of us shared later that it had not been a fun day. We had been told about a stop where they had wonderful oyster tacos. We stopped but they were out which was okay with me! Norm & Lois and John & Judy and we decided to go on to the most interesting sounding place that we had been told about. In El Triunfo there was a mission, (which we visited); a basket shop (which we visited and bought at); and a music museum (where Nicolas Cirrallo was the curator and performer). Mr. Cirrallo was quite an interesting person. I purchased one of his CD’s of concertos and symphonies. I imagine that he had performed for a number of years because he is quite well known in Mexico. We left the town and immediately, in my opinion, the road went to awful. It was downhill and very curvy – there are now handholds on the bar next to my seat. The performer had a neck problem in which his head leaned to one side – I think I know why, he had to hold on like I did and was hiding his face in his shoulder. Finally we got to the bottom and there was the town of Loreto, where we will stop on our return. Our supper was at the resort not too far from the campground in miles but it was many bumps and 10 to-pes from there. The resort was beautiful and the meal was a Mexican buffet. We ended our evening with a fun game of joker with Dick & Judy and Tom & Penny.

February 12 and we have our breakfast buffet at the resort. They had wonderful looking fruit – pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe and mango. They would fix eggs as you wished, French toast, pancakes, bacon, hot dogs, ham and a few Mexican items including refried beans. We looked around the compound. At 10, which in Mexican time became 11, we all gathered for introduction to driving ATV’s. Nearly every one of us rode one around. We are now experts. We wandered around and then decided it was a do-nothing day. We messed with the computer, still trying to get pictures on the blog. Talk about lazy – we were! I wandered down to the beach. It was nice but gets very windy in the afternoons. That is when the kites and the windsurfers all come out. After our supper we walked down to Dick and Judy’s trailer. Eight of us sat out until it was pitch black.

February 13. This is the day we are to ride ATV’s. We had another breakfast buffet at the resort. Judy and I had discussed that it might be a good time to do laundry since we were on the afternoon ride. We had our dirty clothes with us so we found the laundry – not quite open but beautiful and new. Three of us soon filled up all of the washing machines. Husbands went to compute. The young lady attendant (who could not speak English) helped us but forgot to turn the propane on for the dryers so we had to wait an extra time for clothes to dry. My cost was 100 pesos (about $7.50 US) for 3 washer and 3 dryer loads. Not too bad! We went to a shop we had been told about where there were wood turned items. It was good work with turquoise inlaid in many of them. Most of the wood was Mango. They seemed a little high priced. After lunch we went up to do the ATV’s and wouldn’t you know it, all the double seaters were gone. As Enid told us they promise them they will be there and then it just doesn’t happen. After looking the situation over I backed out. I was to have my own – with gear shift. Dick tried to show me how and rammed into the two waiting in front of him. I could just imagine me doing that so I stayed home and got to do some much-needed cleaning. The dust is everywhere. You should see the car – it is one dust ball. Winston is back and what a grungy creature! He is heading for a shower for some reason. He said it was beautiul – they went down the beach and then over BUMPY roads to a waterfall. One of the husbands climber up to take a picture and fell about 8 feet into the water. He chipped a tooth or two, bunped his head and got scrapes. Bet he will be sore tomorrow!. Nealy time for a Drivers Meeting and then possibly got into town for a nice dinne of shimp ceviche (raw shrimp cooked in lime juice. The lime juice cooks them.)