Home again!

Well, we made it! One night in Yuma, one night in Quartzite, one in Mesquite, and arrived home yesterday. In Yuma, we walked across the border into Algodones, MX to get some prescriptions filled and see a dentist. What a trip! There is a huge parking lot right on the border where all the snowbirds park and walk across. It was practically empty when we walked by at about 9 a.m. and totally full a few hours later when we came back. Walking the streets of Algodones was like walked the streets of Sun City West--they only people there under age 60 were the Mexican locals. It looked like something out of a movie. You've never seen so much white hair and bermuda shorts. The other amazing thing about Algodones is that, unlike any other place in Mexico we've been in, they don't like pesos. We had all these pesos left over from our trip that we needed to get rid of, and it was tough.Everything there is priced in dollars, and they only reluctantly converted the prices to pesos for us. I did buy a few souveniers, including a beautiful little rug from Oaxaca for the half-bath that we're remodeling when we get home.

In Quartzite, we stopped at Discount Solar to purchase a new solar panel for the Royal Palms. Steve had scoped them out on our trip there last fall--their prices were much lower than anywhere else. They were able to install it in less than an hour and we were on our way. We already had a small solar panel, but this one has more than doubled the voltage being transferred to our battery, which means we don't have to be quite as careful when we're camping without electrical hook ups (like at the beaches).

This is the last official post of our Baja trip. I'll let everyone know when the vagubundos set out again. Thanks for checking in, and for all your kind words about this blog. See you next trip!