The view from inside our tent. God is so good!!
This drive was very similar to Hwy 3 in that it's another vineyard region. Lots of vineyards as well as fields of peppers, tomatoes and dill. Also miles of greenhouses.
There was quite a bit of road construction and what that means around here is that the Hwy turns to a dirt road which is often quite rough and the signage isn't exactly good, heck, it's not even present. At one point, we were traveling on the paved road only to come to the end of the road. Apparently we missed the place where we were supposed to merge back onto the dirt road. The funny thing was that there were four other cars following our lead so we all had to turn around and go back to the dirt road. Didn't they know not to follow the gringos with the Tennessee license plate?!
Some views from the drive.
Oops!
This is the road we should have been on.
We stopped in the town of Colonet at a roadside taco stand for lunch. We met a young lady, Jessica, from Escondido, CA and chatted with her for a bit. We heard her speaking English to her nieces so we asked her what something on the menu was and that started a nice conversation. She was down for the Thanksgiving break visiting family and had grown up in Colonet. She recommended we head out to the beach area where it's mostly sand dunes. Since we aren't in a 4 wheel drive vehicle we'll have to put that on the list for another time.
Further down the road we stopped at Pemex for gas and met a couple from San Diego, CA. I had packed like a good Girl Scout and had toilet paper which was a hot commodity at that stop which is how we struck up a conversation with them:-) They are building a house just south of Calamu so they knew the area well. They recommended that we camp at Jardin's just south of San Quintin. Since we didn't have any place in mind yet, that sounded as good as anything.
We got to Jardin's and it's actually only a hotel, no camping. There is camping next door but it's kind of cold tonight so we figured we would just stay here. It didn't hurt that the room was only $380 pesos either ($3O US). It also had a restaurant next door so we headed there for dinner. Brett had ribs and I had garlic shrimp and both were good.
Jardin in English means garden and the gardens here are immaculately manicured. In addition to the beautiful lawns and blooms, there are dozens of fruit trees - pomegranates, oranges, lemons, and limes. And they said we could pick some!
This evening we met a couple of guys from southern CA who are here with their families for a surprise 40th birthday party. They are relatives of the owners here so we got to learn more about the history of the place.
Now we're just settled in our room watching Spanish TV. Very few stations are in English with Spanish subtitles but we got lucky and Downton Abby is on one of those channels. I'm good with that!
Nite all!
Some pictures of the gardens and the cattle ranch across the street.
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