Day one

I used that title because people will think I’m going to post every day…well I’m not.

The first thing we did on arrival was to go into town to find a restaurant open. At this time of year, it’s not so easy. First, we went to our old haunt La Cabaña (formerly Papa Gallos) but they were closed. However, we met one of our new Mexican friends who runs the pharmacy close by, Yolanda.

When we did find a place open we met up with Gabino who used to be a mesero at Papa Gallos. We then headed to the square to get some churros when we ran into Omar. After meeting all these Mexican friends we really felt at home.

Rosalie’s arrived home. I was afraid that she would fall in and drown herself so I had to help her out

That was all the first day we arrived so not really the ‘first’ day.

On the real first day (the second day) we found some of our stuff and started to unpack. The first thing I did was hook up the Starlink dish to get us online. Once that was done (after many swear words and threats to cancel) we contacted Castolo to help us get our car on the road. We have a second set of car keys that we stowed somewhere before we left in April, but neither Rosalie nor I could remember where they were hidden.

Castolo found the set of car keys that were left with him, but when he tried to get into the garage he had to try about four hundred keys before finding the right one. Eventually, I hooked up the battery and tried to start it…nothing. Then I remembered that you had to fasten both terminals onto the battery for it to start. That did it, Brrrrm: first time.

Backing out of the garage was a lot of fun as there was about a foot of dust on the car so I couldn’t see a thing. Back at the casa I threw some water on the windshield and declared us safe to drive to the car wash.

The guys that wash the cars are like robots. The guy was pressure washing the dust off before I was out of the driver’s seat. Everything is done by hand and they obviously have a great system as they didn’t miss a bit. The whole thing took about 10 minutes including the hand drying. And the cost to us? 70 pesos (about $5.50) and that included the tip.

The temperature was 34 with 70% humidity so we had to get to the beach fast for some lunch and rehydration. La Cabaña was open this time and we met up with another Mexican mesero friend Tonio.

Eventually back to the casa for a bit more unpacking but we both needed a laydown first, and so the afternoon passed us by. Still can’t find the spare set of keys.