Thursday 3/21/13
This morning was the annual Los
Niños de la Primavera (springtime
children’s parade) in Valle de Juarez –– I took lots of pix. The children and babies were absolutely
adorable in their butterfly, animal and flower costumes. All the local schools participate, also
the military, high school bands and local organizations - of course, before the
parade there were the speeches by the dignitary of the pueblo and an honorific
for Benito Juarez for whom the pueblo is named.
I rode into town with Paula and
Jerry Gale from Nova Scotia, my neighbors who live a truck camper. I’m going to do a little studying about
that type of rig as they have the use of the truck when they’re camped.
I came back and spruced up the
RV, with help from my new hand vac; about a ten-minute job including dishes and
putting things away! Oh, such
housework!
Barb drove by in her little
watering vehicle she uses to irrigate all the plants and trees; she mentioned
the wedding tomorrow afternoon; I told her I’d love to go – Sal’s relative
invited a group of us from Hacienda Contreras to attend the celebration. Should be another great experience.
I’m doing some more study about
possibly visiting Patzcuaro, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, etc.
I’d take a different route North, maybe entering into New Mexico or who
knows where. I could even go to
Los Mochis and take a ferry across to La Paz – seems like lots of people have
done that.
Again I have to say I love this
little town, but even here there are lots of people who have lived in Chicago
(!) – It may be that, since so many people are related to Sal, they may have
followed him North when the opportunity arose. So about every fourth or fifth person (especially male) speaks
English quite well. I just answer
in Spanish!
This evening I invited Renate
over for dinner; it didn’t really dawn on me in the preparation but I served
quite a German meal! I made
browned pork chops with a mustard cream sauce with caramelized onions and sautéed
fresh mushrooms sered with sautéed cubed potatoes and brown sugar-glazed
carrots. A few chocolate
chip-walnut-cranberry Mexican Wedding cookies (with pecans) finished out the
menu. [When I started to cook, I realized
I was out of gas – Rats! I just
had the tank filled last week.
Jerry Gale came over and let me borrow his extra tank so I could cook
dinner; tomorrow he’ll drive me into town to buy more and I’ll definitely buy
some for him. Jerry and Paula have
been so helpful; I really appreciate it.
Such nice people; it would be wonderful to head up to Nova Scotia
sometime – and stop in to see them.
Renate and I had a nice
conversation during dinner - mainly about traveling and RV-ing. Renate has a Class A, but it’s only
about 22 feet long. She said they
don’t make the Class As that short anymore and she really loves hers. It’s large enough to be very comfortable
and small enough to maneuver easily in tight spots.
I did do some RV rearranging of
‘stuff’ in order to make the dining table really usable as a dining table! I moved lots of unnecessary stuff to
the loft and now I’ll sleep on the single bed/couch and use the loft for
extraneous equipment and supplies.
Cleanup after the dinner took about ten minutes!
I did ask Renate a little more
about her trip down Baja; she spent 2 and a half months traveling south (!) and
said that northern Baja is very dirty – lots of refuse, etc. I think I’m going to pass on the Baja
drive, at least for this year. I’ll
give some serious thought within this next week or so about where and how I
want to go from here.
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