Mazatlan to San Carlos

Out the gate at 7:00 AM, looking good so far. Today would be toll road travel, mostly boring but some nice scenery along the way. It's just that there is so much of the same!

We stopped at a rest area form breakfast, even though it has more or less been taken over for heavy truck safety inspections. We parked on the shoulder along side, fed ourselves and the dogs, who also got 10 minutes to sniff around and do their thing and were moving again in 45 minutes.

The terrain is flat farming country.  Though there are some small farms, most are the big multinationals. We usually spot several crop dusters working in this area, though this year only noted one. They may be slow, but are too fast for photos from a moving motorhome!

We stopped for fuel and lunch at Los Mochis, at a Pemex called La Pilarica. It had truck parking, overnight parking, and used to have a place in front of the diesel pumps where we could park and make our lunch. This area is now signed No Parking. All of the truck parking is back in only which is not possible when towing a vehicle 4 wheels down. Fortunately there was a small area to the right sighed Parking which at one end near the road we were able to pull straight in.

Across the road and across the irrigation canal there are a string of ramshackle building which at first look like they may be abandoned or possibly small farm out buildings. Then we noticed the satellite dishes!

We managed to squeeze fuel, lunch and dog walk into 30 minutes and were back on road at  1:25.

At about 6:20 Art had to pull over to wash the bugs from the windshield as the sun was now low in the sky and almost dead ahead, creating an awful glare. At 6:30 we paid the last toll on this section and arrived at Tonoaka RV Park in San Carlos at 6:45.

787 kilometers, 10 hours 30 minutes driving time. 75 Km/H average. Not too bad but we were glad to stop. Especially the dogs!