Monday - Last day at Pilot Knob & Mexico

2/01/10 – Monday




Up early! We made it to Mexico by 9 am which gave us plenty of time to pick up my glasses and look around.

The new glasses work great. I wore them the whole time we were in Mexico and for the first time didn’t feel self-conscious. My glasses have previously always had to be very thick and required larger frames. I felt like Mr. Magoo. (Oops, maybe I just told how old I was. LOL If not, Mr. Magoo was a cartoon character from many… I mean.. a few years ago. He wore these huge magnifying glasses that made his eyes look really large.) These have a smaller frame and are silver.

Next stop was the dentist office even though we were about 45 minutes early. Thomas’ partial was ready and they gave it to us. We were to walk around for about 45 minutes and come back.

Now I have time to find the candy vendor again. Caramelized pecans…yum. And who could not get one of the candied sweet potatoes? They also had candied almonds, mangos, pumpkin, papaya, mango, coconut and other things that I still didn’t know what they were even after he told me. There were several kinds of cookies and fudge.

Still with time left Thomas sat in the town square while I ventured down another street looking at the vendors’ tables. Every one of them had “special price for early morning”, “best price for you Lady”, “Come look-Mexican Wal-Mart inside” and “Everything a $1 for just you today.”

Back at the dentist office Janira (the dentist) fixed a rough spot on my crown and told us to come back in a week or so. Thomas will probably need an adjustment on his partial even though he is having no problem with it now. Janira will not be there since she will be taking off to have her baby but one of the other dentists can take care of it.

To anyone going to Algodones to get dental work done, we recommend Janira Rodarte Alcalde, DDS. Here web site is www.dentpro.net. Phone number from the US is: (928) 446-8064. She has always done great work and she even replaced a cap that she put on 2 years ago because it came off. Janira stands behind her work.

This was a fast trip and we were back in the US by 11 am. We then found the Big O tire store to get the front end aligned on the truck but they could not see us until tomorrow. A trip into this Wal-Mart to kill some time and then back to the trailer at Pilot Knob finished our afternoon.

The rest of the day was spent preparing as much as we could to leave really early in the morning. Oh, we borrowed a latter from another RV’er so I could get on the roof to wash off the solar panels. Over the past few days we have found out that our solar batteries are not holding a charge and recharging as needed. Somewhere along the way we will need to purchase new batteries for the solar system.
Getting ready to leave tomorrow!