So much to do…

I’m so enjoying my 3rd month in San Felipe, and I couldn’t be more pleased with where I’m staying, Campo San Felipe. Right off the beach, 50 amp service, really fast Wifi (at least where I’m parked), room to extend my slides, plenty of interesting neighbors to talk to, excellent services, and on and on.

So this post, we’ll take another tour around San Felipe on a nice sunny January day, so you’ll see why I’m liking it so much here…

This is main street. Runs parallel to the ocean. The walkway on the right is the malecon. It’s a strolling walkway fronting the ocean beaches. Every oceanside Mexican city has one as all the beaches in Mexico are considered public so business must provide access. That’s the reason cities and villages build the malecon, to take advantage of the oceanside space for their citizens. The buildings on the right in the foreground are public.

This is looking inland from the malecon. There’s tourist shops and food on the right, and a motel on the left. It’s fairly deserted this time of year.

This is looking west through town. This is the main drag.

In case you’ve forgotten where you are. Right behind me where I took the last shot.
Off in the distance is the lighthouse and a couple restaurants that are closed up until the crowds arrive for the Baja 1000 and other events. Although it’s in the lower 70’s, most Mexican’s think this is cold weather, and the ocean is really cold, so they stay off the beaches. Can’t tell if this is suggestive or not. Another place that only opens during the longer Baja races. A homeless person’s hovel. Weather is pretty good here so they don’t have it too bad in winter. There’s a lone seal out there on the rocks.And out to sea, you can see the Sea Shepherd standing guard. Making sure the fishermen don’t come out here, letting the endangered fish recover from centuries of overfishing. The government pays them $100 pesos (around $5.50 US) per week to not fish.

You can see that there aren’t too many high rises around here.This is the main road with all the Alto signs.

And there’s Fat Boy’s. I hang out here a lot. Great food, best Pina Colada in town.

And then there’s the other things I like here. The laundry does my laundry, folds it nicely, in under 2 hours for around $5 US. Nice. There are many, many, excellent restaurants here. And then I’ve gotten lots of stuff done here…

What I’ve gotten done while here is beneficial to my health, and to a healthy checkbook. I’ve gotten a new eyeglass prescription because I was starting to see my glasses weren’t cutting it anymore, and got 3 pairs of glasses to boot. Used my own frames for new, “San Felipe dark” style sunglasses. Total came to $91 US for exam, 2 sets of lenses with new frames – one pair distance and one pair computer glasses, 1 set of prescription sunglass lenses installed in my own nearly new frames. I’m happy I can see better now. And saved hundreds. But I have used 39dollarglasses.com in the past when I’ve needed to and they have nice frames for only $15. It’s easy to find inexpensive glasses online these days.

And then I went in for some dental work. I haven’t been for 5-6 years (shame on me!) but I’ve been using electric toothbrushes (Oral B battery operated) for all those years and the dentist that cleaned my teeth said they were fairly clean after all that time. I hadn’t planned on it anyway but, I’ll never use a standard brush again. The electrics just do too good of a job.

But the exam also showed up 5 small cavities on the backs of my front teeth! Yikes! I’ll have to pay more attention to that area in future. And also, I have a broken eye tooth (I knew about that, had a temporary crown put on that one 6 years ago, and it crumbled recently), and they found a new cracked tooth next to a missing tooth I had pulled decades ago. No more popcorn! The missing tooth was also next to the eyetooth so those three things meant that I needed two crowns and a bridge all on the left side, upper area. A bridge is used, as you’d expect, to bridge across the gum area where that missing tooth use to be. It’s necessary in my case because of the cracked tooth. Gives stability to the two teeth getting the crowns. Well, what with the exam, cleaning, 5 cavities, the bridge work, and a bleaching, I’m now $1000 US lighter. And that’s about 1/3rd what I’ve have paid up in the US. I suppose I could have gotten an implant to replace that missing tooth, and then two crowns, but don’t see the point. A bridge is fine.

Now the other non medical stuff that was healthy for my pocketbook was work on my RV. I have had the old, weak rear jack springs replaced with new stronger springs,

my roof edge sealed with Eternabond tape, link here at ‘Roof Edges‘,

my missing mud flap replaced.

All by the park host and his assistants here at Campo San Felipe. Did a very good job too. I’ll be posting stories about that work in my RV section soon.

So it’s been a busy month so far, with a few more things to do. I do like the nice weather here. However, last night we were lashed with a powerful storm. Winds of 80 KPH, buckets of rain. But, it’s still warm!