Puerto Peñasco is a city located about 100 km from the Arizona border. It is located on the small strip of land that joins the peninsula of Baja California with the rest of Mexico. Puerto Peñasco is often called “Rocky Point” in English, and has been nicknamed “Arizona’s beach” as it is the coast closest to the major city of Phoenix.
We left Friday morning early and began our journey to Arizona. We very much enjoy traveling with Ron and Judy.
On our way we stopped in Panguitch and there met a group of motorcycle men. Rather rough group but very nice. Judy and I had to pose with one of them. We also visited the very small post office so that Judy could mail a package.
From there we headed to Jacob’s Lake. This is a mountain retreat owned by some relatives on the Maxfield side of the family. I bought a t-shirt that says, “Grandchildren, you just can’t ‘beat’ them.” We had a delicious lunch, took a picture of some of the relatives and then headed back on our journey.
We stayed at a motel for the night and got up at our leisure to head to the border and our destination. The funny thing about these pictures is that we were all ready to leave and saw the movie “The Blind Side” was just starting. We had all seen it but had to watch it yet again. Watching that movie delayed our departure by a couple of hours. But, we weren’t on any kind of a schedule, so . . . . Then our next visit was Costco to stock up on some groceries. I think Costco is almost as prevalent as Mormon church buildings and 7-Eleven. Almost one on every corner!
Here we are at Rocky Point. We had a fun time. It was very hot. Neal and Ron golfed every single morning and Judy and I spent most of our time laying out by the pool, swimming in the pool and dipping in the Sea.
We loved the creative towel decorations that the maids left in our rooms each day.
I had to take these two pictures. I’m always amazed and strongly reminded of how incredibly blessed I am to live in America and to have all that I have. This man probably makes about $8.00 a day doing back breaking work of taking each rock out of the edging so that someone behind him can come along and edge the grass with a sharp knife. The worker then goes back and puts every rock back in it’s place. There were blocks and blocks of this kind of edging.
Judy basking in the sun. The lounge areas were actually made out of tile and were surprisingly comfortable. We said our “Goodbyes” to Puerto Penasco on Thursday about 2:00 p.m. and headed to Rosarito.
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