Day 9 - Bahia De Los Angeles to Vicente Guerrero - 233.5 miles

Day 9 - Bahia De Los Angeles to Vicente Guerrero - 233.5 miles

We were up at 5:30 for another beautiful sun rise, although cloudy one. 

Yesterday we enjoyed visiting with a colony of seals.  This morning, unfortunately, we observed a dead seal had washed up on the beach.  The vultures were feasting, and it seems their numbers grew by the minute.

We got an early start and were all out of the campground by 7:30am.

Starting out we saw some beautiful cloud cover on the mountains.

These are the same roads we traveled when we were going south.  So we knew what to expect.  It did not make it any less scary!!!

This shows the twisting roads we traveled on this leg

The best shot I could get to try to show the steep drop offs

he 5th wheel in front of us was being driven by an elderly gentleman.  He had great difficulty keeping his wheels on the road.  He scared us half to death a couple times.  Once he dropped both rear tires off the road aTnd nearly rolled his rig trying to get back on the road.  We were very glad that he made it through this leg in one piece.

We faced a lot of trucks coming from the opposite direction.  The trickiest part was when the truck mirror passed the mirror on the motor home.  There were only inches between them

  The wagon master was very smart to schedule a break at the end of the worst part of the road (the white knuckle tour, we called it).  The drivers needed to get out of the rigs and relax a bit before moving on!!

 The next area we drove through was extremely rocky.  It was interesting how the rocks just seem to be placed in spots

However, you can't stop mother nature.  Plenty of vegetation manged to grow in this rocky soil

including a couple huge cacti 

We went through another military check point and got boarded again.  This soldier let me take his picture.  Then John told him that he was retired Army.  The soldier got excited and asked to see John Military ID, and then took out his own wallet and showed us his Mexican Army ID!  All young men must serve 2 years in the Army here.  So these are mostly young kids, very polite and mostly curious about what all the different rigs look like.  We had fun with this one.

We were very happy when the ocean came back into view:

I was able to get a couple shots of the roadside memorials we passed along the way.  Sadly, we saw most of them around the sharp turns on the hill sides.  Two in particular were for truckers.  The first one is for a gentleman by the name of Hector.  His family seems to really want him to be remembered by all the work they put into the memorial and placing his name there. 

More memorials

Sadly, this memorial appears to be for an entire family

We fueled up before getting to the campground.  Here is the gas station owned by the government.

We paid $2237.00 pesos for 172.74 liters of diesel.  Which come to about $1 a liter, or $4 a gallon.  Same thing we paid on the way in.  Although, if you ran out of gas along the way, you could get gas at some of these smaller (really smaller!!!) gas stations:

We got to the campground around 3:30pm, which wasn't so bad.  John and I immediately went down for long hot showers.  They felt wonderful!!!

6pm we had an excellent group dinner.  I had ribs that were very good and John had fish that was cooked perfectly.  We enjoyed a lively conversation with our table mates with much laughter and shared stories "from the road".  Every one seemed to have a story that started with  "wait until I tell you the time I did............"  which invariably was something