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Patzcuaro

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Our plan had been to visit Uruapan, the “Avocado Capital of the World”, and we did drive through miles of lush avocado plantations to the town. When we got to our intended camping spot, the owner told us there was a private fiesta happening that evening.  We were welcome to stay but it would be muy ruidoso (very noisy).  He told us there was a campsite in Patzcuaro, which is where we had planned on going next anyway, and that it was only 20 minutes away, so we headed for Patzcuaro with the idea of returning the following morning to walk around Uruapan .

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Coasting along.

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We ended up staying five nights at Lo de Marcos, we just couldn’t pull ourselves away from the beach and the town.  It was so easy to stay.  Every day or so a man would come by with a truck full of vegetables for sale, and one day two pretty young women quickly talked Derek into buying some fresh lobster, which we cooked up that night for dinner.

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Beach time

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We drove south from Mazatlan to an ocean front campground near the town of Teacapan called Color Marino RV Park.  We took the libre (free) road, instead of the toll road, travelling through several small towns.  Peoples’ reaction to us varied from enthusiastic smiles and waves, to slight frowns (damn tourists!), to indifference.  Many of the small towns we drove through looked very poor, and we later learned that many farms in the area were badly damaged by hurricanes and have not recovered.

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Rough roads and being the talk of the town

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We wanted to make our way towards the Barranco del Cobre (Copper Canyon) and we knew we wanted to spend a night at Basaseachic Falls along the way, but we were pretty sure we could not make it there in one day.  We looked at our map and decided on a route that would take us on some lesser travelled road.  We had some concern that the one road might be not much more than a track, but decided we would assess it when we got there and if it looked bad we would take a detour that would add a few kilometres to the day but allow us to travel on better roads.  We didn’t know where we would camp that night, but hoped we might find a nice place to park along a river.

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Hola from Mexico, we made it!

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We left Sunnyvale near San Francisco and made our way into Arizona, heading for the border crossing at Nogales (south of Tucson).  Before leaving California we spent another night in a casino parking lot just west of Palm Springs.  We woke up at 3 in the morning to the sound of helicopters flying overhead.  In the morning we discovered that there were several police cars, authorities armed with HUGE rifles, ambulances and other emergency equipment blocking off part of the casino….what the ….. ??????  Okay, looks like some action happening, but can we still use the rest room????

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