On the highway again. Heading home.

Well I'm up at 5:30 and we won't be leaving until about 10! We leave later today because we will be spending the night in a truck stop. No sense getting there early. About 250 miles today and most of it on bad expensive road if the trip down is an accurate indication. I do hope some of the north bound sections have been repaved. Also read the tolls have gone up again. Probably will not have WiFi tonight so no posting from Los Mochis...sometimes I can pick up the parking lots WiFi for a quick post. We will see. Then tomorrow we will head for San Carlos another long drive but mostly on good roads. 

Yesterday we took our last trip to Centro. Things are starting to gear up for Carnival which begins Thursday. Just one of the deliveries of beer we saw.

Building all kinds of stands along the Malecon and in Olas Altas. Usually by now there are bleachers built all along the Malecon for the Parades. But it wasn't decided until three days ago to for sure have Carnival. 

Don't know what these are but there are several of them built on the beach just off the sidewalk. Haven't seen them before.

This one has a cover on it. 

Finally got a half way decent photo of this one. 

Beer stands going up. One thing missing still are all the porta potties along the way. 

I wanted to see the finished mural at the Observatory. It sure is pretty. I wonder if they are going to do something with the newly painted white wall to the left of it. 

So anyway, the watch. We usually manage to pull up into a small driveway right next to the watchmakers shop but there was a taxi cab pulled in there. Didn't want to go to the parking lot a couple of blocks away 'cause we'd only be a couple of minutes. So parked with several cars along the curb around the corner. A little further down the curb was a NO PARKING sign. But there are always cars parked there...Got to the watchmaker and he apologized profusely about not being able to fix the watch. The movement he'd found would not work. So after two years Bill got his watch back just as it went in. Not working. It is over 30 some years old so....

Back to the car. Oh, oh, right in front of it was a policeman on an ATV getting ready to give out parking tickets. We hurried to the Jeep got in and drove away before he got off his ATV. Whew. Just in time. 

So back towards home. Decided to stop at the grocery store to pick up a couple of things. As we turned the corner from the Malecon to the street where the store is the traffic cop on foot at the corner pointed to us and motioned to us to pull over. WHAT? He blew his whistle and continued to point to the curb. So Bill pulled over. We weren't speeding, our turn signal was on, we were wearing seat belts... Policeman came up from behind us to Bill's window. He asked if we were American. Bill said yes. He smiled and told Bill in Spanish he thought our car was Mexican and if it was it needed a front license plate. But he realized some American cars didn't need one. So he smiled and waved us on our way.  The first time in years we'd been pulled over. He was very nice and respectful as was Bill. 

So in and out of grocery store and home.

Had the RV washed and waxed yesterday and gave all of our plants  that were in planters to Rafael the handy man in the park. 

Bill took down all the colored lights and straightened out the outdoor storage areas and I straightened out all the inside cupboards. So this morning we just have to put things away, pull the slides in, hook the car and we'll be ready to go.

Part if me hates to leave, as it will probably we our last time coming here. And part of me can't wait to get home.