A move to LaPosta

So when Ismael quit his job at Las Jaibas RV Park, we had become friends enough that I sympathized with his issues with the patron’ and so moved to a different RV park where his wife works. This one is about a block off of the main road that goes through the Golden Zone and parallels the beach.

My new space:

See that white tree stump there near the rear tires? That’s where I left my bike the second night I was here. Totally forgot to lock it up. Next morning it’s missing. So Ismael hears about it and has his wife offer me a free week at the campground. Down here, a bike like mine costs $125 US. Up in the states it’s only $80. I took them up on the offer since the weekly fee here is around $105 US. I’m now in my second week here at the park and I’ve meet some new friends…

Jerry and Judy:

Bill:

Since Ismael no longer has a job, he’s taking a few weeks off before he goes back to taxi driving or whatever, so he offered to give me a ride over to Stone Island (not really an island – a peninsula now but it use to be an island) to look at the RV park over there.

On the way:

Looking west:

One of the more famous singers in the area owns this house. He’s in the process of selling it so they can put up condos:

I took this shot to get that purple house in the frame…I liked the color but the house itself is kinda boring from the street. That patio is pretty cool though. Let’s assume that the inside is purple too.

As we rounded the hill, looking back east to Mazatlan proper:

This is one of the streets down in ‘Old City’ of Mazatlan. Kind of hard to get around in a big rig, glad I never had to try it:

We hired a boat to take us over to Stone Island:

Here’s where they park those cruise ships that come here. Ismael’s home is about 2 blocks to the starboard side of that ship:

After we landed on Stone Island, we walked over to the beach. The RV park we’re looking for is way off in the distance. The buildings along the beach are all businesses for tourists, but as you can see, there aren’t many because of the difficulty in getting here. The road is terrible with hundreds of pot holes. The other way is by boat. All those trees in the distance are coconut trees, it’s a huge plantation:

This is a shot of the little town we passed through by pedicab on the way to the RV park. It was a very, I’m mean very, rustic town. Would have gotten more shots but we were bouncing around too much:

Two days later we headed south to check out another RV park, these are like explorations for both me and Ismael since I’m looking for some ground to buy, maybe even a RV park, and he is looking for a new job sort of. And we hit it off so we’re hanging out and he’s showing me his favorite spots. We went to one ‘buy your RV plot’ place where last year he was offered a job but he turned it down back then because there was nothing but a couple roads on the land. Now there is a big beautiful meeting center, a pool is going in, there are a couple of buyers parked on their improved sites, there’s an apartment for the manager, etc. He wanted my opinion about the place. The park is 3 miles from the Mazatlan Areo Puerto, about 20 minutes from the Golden Zone, out in the sticks where you have to drive through a really old Mexican town with cobble stone paving, narrow roads, etc. The land slopes toward the hills, it’s quiet, peaceful, and the developer is ‘required’ by land use laws to reinsert the green that they removed. So, trees and grass will be reinstalled.

In short, I think the place will be a great success and told him he should take the job if it’s re-offered. Like I said, he hadn’t seen the place for months, and was impressed as I was. They gave us the grand tour. Had a great time. I hadn’t expected much from his descriptions so I forgot to take any pictures for you guys. After we left there, we headed even further south into the semi-big town 3 miles from the RV place and I started taking pictures again, this is a typical street in a typical small town in Mexico:

Here we are heading out of town due south: