Monday, July 10, 2006


But before we could enter Mexico we had to go to the rental company in San Diego Airport, once again to trade out into a mini-van, a Mazda MPV to be exact, because apparently Mexico has a big problem with auto thefts, according to the rental agent. Imagine what it?s like to change cars 4 times with the amount of luggage we had, lets do a re-count, we started out this a Nissan Murano which was missing the Satellite radio we requested , then we moved into a 300M, not enough trunk space, so we were put into a Lincoln Town Car, very comfortable, plenty of trunk space but we could not take the car out of the country, so we ended up in a minivan.

Day three of our road trip places us in a little town 18 miles south of Rosario Beach, Mexico, two toll roads or 52 pesos (based on the current exchange rate) past the Mexican border. The funny thing is this, when I Googled the town of Puerto Nuevo to find a map, one map placed Puerto Nuevo in central Baja, no where near the beach, when actually it is a beach front town with american style hotels dotting the coastline.

We crossed the border about 6pm on Sunday night the room we had reserved a room on-line for 80 US dollars, per night, but the room appeared to be way too small for an active family of four so we upgraded to the family room which allowed us the ability to spread out. Our first priority was to eat so we drove next door to town for dinner, then back to the hotel to rest for the night.

Our first night was interesting because most of the night was interrupted with the sounds of M-80?s going off every few minutes, if you are unaware of what an M-80 is, it is equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite and the sound hit the courtyard of the hotel and is amplified. But soon the sound of the ocean crashing against the shore took over, very relaxing!!

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