Away from the City...towards the Jungle.

Well it's sunday today, I just found out as I was doing laundry (by hand!). Someone walked by and said "that's a lot of work for a Sunday". Then another lady came with clothespins which are a tremendous help as our undies were flying everywhere.
We are in Teacapan today. We have WiFi but I can't seem to get pics on the blog so you'll have to wait. It was a short drive, about 2 hours and we stopped for groceries which I'll tell you about later.
We left Maz. at 7 a.m. when there was enough light and the kids were ready to go - that takes the longest usually. We drove through the old downtown and past the hotelzone. Interesting place, not somewhere we'd pick to go on holidays though. As it was too early for the grocerystores to be open we took to the Mex. 15 and headed south, finding a free road and heading for Teacapan. After a while we noticed the landscape changing a bit, towards Culiacan, the capital of this state of Sinaloa, more hilly and more trees. And what agriculture, corn and tomatoes and peppers and such, oranges and limes and avocadoes, miles and miles of it all. Further down we found....Bob and Jim driving in front of us, whom we met in San Carlos and were going to meet up with at Las Glorias. We followed them through a small town but then they ended up going further south whereas we want to go to the beach again. Enough driving already! So we turned back into town, and did some shopping at a big Ley store. We are still looking for fuel for our campingstove. Kerosene. Earl threatens to stop at an airport if we can't buy any in town... appearantly airplane fuel is the same stuff. Then, after navigating the dusty narrow one-way streets a couple more times, we spy something that looks like home hardware store. We go in asking for gasolina blanca - which is the name, we learned from our chatty friend in Las Glorias - and lo and behold, lots of one-litre bottles of the stuff. No problema. We stock up to the surprised look of the storepeople, and look forward to cooking some meat and boiling water for coffee! We've been buying our morning coffee at the corner store Oxxo, not bad but not the same as self-brewed, eh?
Now we are ready to go, fully stocked. The little road to Teacapan winds through a birdsanctuary. Palm trees here, coconut groves and crocodiles. We are getting towards jungly land now. You can feel more humidity. We check out all the camping places and decide on the new one, Villas ..... oh I forget the name now and am too lazy to walk all the way to the office. Sorry, I'll let you know later.
There's a mile long sandy road, wide enough for the van and/or a motorhome but not for passing. At the end are some villas, little stucco'd houses for rent, and some concrete pads with hook up. Price $17.00 USD per night. It's cheaper to stay a week or more. But we just need 2 nights, so I can do laundry and it can dry properly. There are about 12 or so rigs here, many from BC some from Abbotsford! It's also very windy when we arrive, and looks like it's going to rain with lots of clouds. That cleared up overnight though, but we had lots of humidity in the morning. The sun finally burns that off around 9:30 a.m. and the laundry goes up with help of clothespegs from the Abbotsford lady, and here we are blogging.
The wind picks up again after noon so I have to check the laundry.
We also drove into the village of Teacapan yesterday, a little fishing pueblo with friendly folk, dirt streets, the bus can just make the corners. Big OLD diesel greyhound buses.
It's nice to relax again for a day, but we keep hearing stories of further south where it's warmer, good surfin', that sorta thing...
Hasta luego!