Our New HouseOn Tuesday we went to Guaymas to find the Pearl Farm next to the technical college and to go to the bank since the only one in San Carlos is perpetually out of pesos in their ATM machine. What a hoot! Guaymas is a vibrant, packed town with what appears to be a median age of about 22. It was not quite what I was expecting in terms of the density of people and traffic. We got totally lost.
We crawled past the Ley supermarket and into downtown, past a thousand little shops, and to the harbor next to the Plaza of three Presidents. Forget parking, there is none for a Suburban. I thought that I could just make a few right turns, go around a few blocks, and get headed back toward San Carlos, but the roads are all under construction and the detours guided me South. We found the beisbol stadium and also learned the time the schools all let out. Since we eventually were headed out of town in the wrong direction and I did not have a permit for the truck to go further south than Guaymas (the “Hassle Free” zone only extends to Guaymas) we turned around and used the broadcast towers on top of the mountain behind the Ley as our old style GPS. It worked, but we had still not been to the bank, so I headed back toward the harbor on the same road we had used on our first attempt.
This time we found the bank I was looking for (Santander – a B of A affiliate) just a few block past Ley. Their identification sign only faced east so that explained how we missed it the first time through. Victory! We found pesos and the baños. The inclusion of the bathroom stop allowed us to continue on to our original destination and we found the pearl farm without any real complications, except the one where you do not have enough cash in your wallet to actually buy anything they have on display.
We took the shortcut back to San Carlos, around the bay and the estuary and found that although shorter in distance, it too was under construction and took a bit of extra time. No problem. The drive was beautiful as well as educational and I will take learning something new each day over almost any other experience.
We crawled past the Ley supermarket and into downtown, past a thousand little shops, and to the harbor next to the Plaza of three Presidents. Forget parking, there is none for a Suburban. I thought that I could just make a few right turns, go around a few blocks, and get headed back toward San Carlos, but the roads are all under construction and the detours guided me South. We found the beisbol stadium and also learned the time the schools all let out. Since we eventually were headed out of town in the wrong direction and I did not have a permit for the truck to go further south than Guaymas (the “Hassle Free” zone only extends to Guaymas) we turned around and used the broadcast towers on top of the mountain behind the Ley as our old style GPS. It worked, but we had still not been to the bank, so I headed back toward the harbor on the same road we had used on our first attempt.
This time we found the bank I was looking for (Santander – a B of A affiliate) just a few block past Ley. Their identification sign only faced east so that explained how we missed it the first time through. Victory! We found pesos and the baños. The inclusion of the bathroom stop allowed us to continue on to our original destination and we found the pearl farm without any real complications, except the one where you do not have enough cash in your wallet to actually buy anything they have on display.
We took the shortcut back to San Carlos, around the bay and the estuary and found that although shorter in distance, it too was under construction and took a bit of extra time. No problem. The drive was beautiful as well as educational and I will take learning something new each day over almost any other experience.
Canyon Hike
Valentines Day at Marina Tera
They got it almost right.
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