Our Winter home. Las Jaibas Trailer Park

 Thought I'd take a walk around the RV park, this is One of our bougainvilleas blooming. Amazing what water will do. 

There are a lot of these in bloom around the campground. 

This is one of the nicest spaces in the park. Looks like a garden site. That is us behind the bushes.

looking towards the front of the park the south side sites. There is one RV way up there. 

There are a lot of boats stored here now. Some because the owners wanted to get them out of the water before Hurricane Pamela came. This is the middle row near the restrooms.

More construction on the north side of the park. Looks like apartments. The fence is gone and lots of dirt on the campground side. 

Another pretty flowering bush. 

The office never changes. The WiFi is working this year.  But all the TelMex cables that served the sites on the north side and the back are GONE . They were removed/cut during the construction of the two new restaurants. 

Out front and just to the right of the entrance is this seafood and sushi restaurant. It is actually on the RV park ground.

The inside of it. I've heard it is good and it seems to do a pretty good business. 

Next to it before the Kiosko is a Taco Time.

Just past the Kiosko and the little restaurant that has been there for years is this big new Farmacia. 

In the middle divider is the bike path. In the street are the little yellow bumps to remind drivers the bike path is there. I've noticed a couple of bikes come into the street without seeming to look first. Careful. 

Walking back to the back  more boats. down the middle. 

Closer look at the new construction. pretty much makes the north row of sites unusable. 

And that's the tour of Las Jaibas our winter home. Paying at a monthly rate it comes to about US$15 a day - includes electricity 30 amp. Restrooms are very well kept. Spaces are large and level. A block from the beach and lots of public transportation.  In a week or so hopefully there will be more rigs here. I forgot to take a picture of the swimming pool and lounge area around it. As always it is very pretty and well maintained. 

Bill took the drone up to take a video of the park. You can see the jeep getting its new radiator then the front of the park. The new restaurants are by the cell tower in the front. 

The rest of the video showing all the work that has been done around the park. New building everywhere. 

So that is it for today. Oh, a 5th wheel just pulled in here in back. Hope they'll be here for a while. 

Road Trip Breakfast at La Martina

Yesterday, Tuesday, I was up early enough to see another beautiful sunrise. Header picture. 

Bill had been up a bit when he asked, "Want to go to La Martina for breakfast." Well, of course. So off we went. When we got to the free road 15 saw these big signs. One advertising the hotel and restaurant in La Noria and the one on the left telling you to turn around and go back to the toll rod to get to El Quelite as the free road is still closed because of the bridge that got washed out during the hurricane. 

Also in part due to the hurricane and wet weather during the summer it is so green here this year. And all kinds of flowers are blooming along the roads. 

Part of the road to La Noria, and La Martina, has been repaved and widened. Nice. See all the green.

Turning in to La Martina the cactus fence is flourishing too. 

As beautiful as ever. 

We like to sit on the back area. This covered area didn't have any vines on it when we left here in February. Things grow so lush and fast here. 

Looking down across the big yard to the forest beyond. 

We like to sit at the table right up against the edge of the area looking down over the lawn.

View from our table. 

Bill had American coffee I had Olla, Mexican coffee. Always bring tortilla chips and sweet potato chip and cheese made in the area. And of course dip. 

Bill relaxing and enjoying the scenery.

More trees and flowers have been planted along the lawn and by the two buildings. 

Another look at the lawn. So green. What a beautiful place for events. 

A little bit of new waiter and language difficulties when ordering our breakfast. So we ended up with a whole lot to eat.  Bills meal. 

My meal, it comes with a spicy sausage that is just too hot for me to eat so asked if something could be substituted for it. Have done that before usually getting a small portion of fruit instead of sausage.  As I said a  bit of miscommunication. Instead of sausage I got a pulled chicken dish that was delicious. Bottom of dish. I ate everything on the plate (except for the beans.)

But we also got an entire fruit, yogurt, granola plate. It in itself is an entire breakfast. I managed to eat a whole lot of it too. 

Was rather full when we left. 

Walked down around the lawn. Just some pictures from down there. While I was taking pictures Bill was talking to Maria, the owner. She says things are very busy here especially on weekends. Every one working there is well and made it through the summer. 

Just a strange plant. The only flower on it. 

Another fence of cactus. 

Looking back at the restaurant. Can't you just imagine a bride coming down those steps. 

I live the tiles on the steps. 

Pictures from inside the patio area of the restaurant. 

Beautiful floor. There used to be tables in this area. 

Heading back out to the highway the bougainvilleas are beautiful.

As always a great meal and beautiful place. Such a nice way to spend a morning. We didn't continue on to La Noria or go to the tequila distillery. Will do that another day. Spent the afternoon at home then went out to the look out point by the light house to watch the sunset. Another post. Enjoying our time here, just wish it would cool down a little and that the humidity will soon go down. Then we'll be able to spend more time out and about. 

Out and about Monday

Monday morning had a beautiful sunrise. As did today. Glad I was up both days to see them. This is yesterday. Header picture is today.

You can kind of see the lights Bill has put up. Rafael put the ones up in the tree for us.  

We got out and about for a while yesterday. This is part of the front of the RV park. There are now four rigs here. But one is leaving in a week. 

Heading through the Golden Zone. The road has been repaved and the sidewalks redone. Also new crosswalks for the people. I had seen pictures of this one but still could not believe it. When they first put it in some cars going over it flew off of it. Saw one video where the car was a foot and a half off the ground. And come to find out there are TWO of them. Got to be sure to remember them at night where there is very little traffic. I guess they are for wheel chair or handicap people. Even with the sidewalk, do not have to go down curb. But at corners there are sidewalk ramps. 

The second one, they are close together. 

Drove along the Malecon heading towards the Centro Historico. The bike path here is being painted that's why it looks like water -the paint is wet. About five guys taking care of it. One sweeping, one watching and three with rollers painting. Could not focus camera quick enough to get a picture. Until it got repainted didn't realize how much the paint had faded. 

Since we were here in the spring the yellow line with the half balls has been installed all along the bike path. Keeps the vehicles off of it. 

Our first stop was the watch maker. All Bill's watches going in for their yearly cleaning and TLC. Also he is hoping that the watch maker will be able to get the piece that is needed to fix his favorite watch. We aren't parked on the sidewalk we are actually on a driveway. Even so have to pull in the driver's mirror so cars on the street can get by. 

Then of course as we were in Centro we had to stop at THE BAKERY. Another strange parking job so I stayed in the car - so no pictures. Every one in bakery is well and business is booming. He has expanded and has 12 people working for him. now. Bill did a little shopping. 

Then back through town and a stop at the laundry. One of my favorite parts about winter in Mexico. Getting the laundry done by someone else. 

We watched a little TV last night. We have Dish Anywhere. We go on line here and with the DA app it connects to our TV in our living room at home. Without WIFI we can't watch it. So found out it uses about 3GBs for two hours of TV. The last couple of years with the TelMex cable we had unlimited data. So this year the Internet is better but we'll have to be careful how much TV we watch. 

Today we took a short road trip to have breakfast. More about it tomorrow.