Thanksgiving In Santa Rosalia

We are in Santa Rosalia for Thanksgiving and very happy to be here as it is mucho viento-very windy-today.  Last night was pretty crazy for us as we have not had much interactiion with other people, and then it was kind of overload last night.  We witnessed a big band playing Mexican music down the street and then saw one of the candidates for Governor  of Baja CaliforniaSur, Mr. Marcos, making a speech to a large and excited crowd.  It was pretty wild seeing all of it, and we had to at least take it in and listen to what he had to say.  We have no idea what he exactly said, but it sounded good to us and we would vote for him!

Today we spent wandering around the town, eating breakfast at the Hotel Frances which is about 100 years old and build of wood from Oregon, and we had a great view of the surrounding water from there as well.  We visited the famous French bakery in town and had a baguette, and pretty much spent a heck of a lot of time trying to find a place that would serve us pavo-turkey for dinner.  We did find a grocery store that had a 22 pound rock hard frozen butterball turkey, but that was kind of out of our league with our little MSR stove and frying pan.  So......we are going to settle for eating at a restaurant called polloito´s tonight, and have a roasted chicken dinner- but we are going to bring our can of cranberries that were given to us up in LA Bay 140 miles ago, and bring it to dinner with us and open it with our Swiss army knife and have that as a side with our dinner!

We also were able to buy two stamps today so we could mail postcards back home, but it was much more difficult to get the actual post card.  We tried really hard to explain what a post card was to a couple of store vendors, but all they could come up with was either a post it note or an envelope.  We think postcards may be a thing of the past.

We had meet some people in the harbor in San Felipe on a sailboat on our very first day of paddling, and now we see their boat, the Narama, tied up in the harbor.  We are hoping to run into them tonight or tomorrow and visit with them.  We are also on the main line of Mex 1 right now, and so it is possible that our car could drive through the town at any time on its way to Loreto, as we have arranged to have a man, Alexander, to drive it there for us.  That would be very strange to see that if it happens.

We also have our tent pitched tonight next to a pool on the upper deck of the harbormaster building with a fine view of the ocean!  The price was right and we will have access to showers and won't have to look into the neighbors yard or hear them talking all night like last night at our 1 star hotel.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our followers and have an extra bite of turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie for both of us, as we can guarantee that we won't be having any of that- but at least we won't be eating fish tacos either!  Adios Amigos- more to come tomorrow!!!


































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