the coast of the Sea of Cortez

We spent 8 days at Mission View RV Resort in Tucson, meeting up with 5 other couples heading to Lo de Marcos.  The resort had lots to offer.  We took advantage of some of their activities and used their indoor swimming pool and hot tub.

The Canadian gang from  Ontario, BC and Calgary all heading to Lo de Marcos for the winter

A cold wave hit Tucson the last 2 days we were there so the day time high was 19C  with overnight low 4C ......brrrr. I know, I know...we have nothing to complain about.

November 19th we left Tucson with 2 other RVs to cross into Mexico at Nogales.  There have been major improvements made on both the American and Mexican sides of the crossing making it much easier for motorhomes to pass through. That is until you get to the Mexican customs area. We were in the Autos lane on the left (trucks and Autobuses on the right) and just about to enter the booth when we were re-directed over to the very right into the Autobus lane. We couldn't make the turn and had to stop and disconnect the car, back up, and then maneuver to to the right lane. What a pain!

We arrived in the late afternoon Totonaka RV Park in San Carlos on the Sea of Cortez.  The weather here is 29C in the daytime with overnight lows of 14C.  Beautiful clear sunny skies.  Here are some of the views from our RV:

Across the road, we spotted a channel marker buoy had drifted to shore.  The gentleman in the photo is fishing.  Another guest here reported they had been catching sierra, trigger fish and skipjack.

We have lots of butterflies flitting by and resting in flowering trees nearby.  Also a large dark coloured hummingbird with a green sheen to it's feathers comes by several times a day to check us out.  It flew to within about a foot of our friend when he was sitting on our patio at happy hour the other day.  The joys of warm weather!

The breeze in the morning is very light so I was able to get the radio controlled airplanes out and go flying while Bev attended to the laundry.