March 9 - And so we leave

March 9 - And so we leave – with a heavy heart – its so nice here, the weather is now just perfect, warm but not too hot, nice breezes, flat water. However, its time to go, what can we do.

So – Friday we picked up T&T at the airport, brought them home, stayed that night in the GMC and left the next morning for Los Barriles for Saturday night at East Cape RV park and dinner and great music at Otra Vez restaurant. Miguel is a wonderful flaminco guitar player that we have heard a few times before, this year he is playing with a great violin player – together they are really great and hope to release a cd in the near future. They play all sorts of music including a little jazz – he is a wanna be Stephan Grapelli.

We left town Sunday arriving in La Paz in short order, stayed at Casa Blanca RV Park as Aquamarine is closed now – I had to see a dentist on Monday as I am having sensitivity in one of my teeth. He was well recommended by some friends in Los Barriles so made an appointment before we left, then we heard some conflicting stories - ie he said to one of the neighbour’s “a crown is a crown – no need to make an impression” - so she had a crown installed without any impression being made. She also said that one of her friends had to have all the work redone in the US that this dentist did…. Hmmm ….. I’m not going to let him do anything major!

Saw the dentist, he took an xray – he held the film in my mouth and stayed in the room while he did it,….. granted I was between him and the machine… I wonder why Canadian dentists use that lead apron, have the assistant do it, and she leaves the room to press the button?.... He said there was no problem with the tooth, that the sensitivity was not the crown leaking but that I may have some root exposure. So thankfully I can just come home and have my own dentist look at it. I have heard very good things about the dental work here in Mexico, like everywhere one has to do the homework to make sure you get the good one. It was certainly cheap enough - $15.

After the dentist we headed off to the community of La Ventana (the window) and the new development of Ensenada de los Muertos (Bay of the Dead – renamed by the developer to Bay of Dreams), two very beautiful bays only about an hour from La Paz on a secondary road.

La Ventana is a Mexican town in a beautiful bay with a white sandy beach where the gringos have definitely moved in. It is a great wind and kite surfing area with a wind that blows most every day. Los Muertos is an incredibly beautiful bay where there is a very nice restaurant called the Giggling Marlin – a destination place for boats hired out of Los Barriles, and maybe even Cabo. There is also a new development behind a fence with a guard so we couldn’t see what was there except with binoculars. This development has the most earth moving equipment we have ever seen down here! They are in the immediate process of building a golf course and then will focus on selling and building homes. They are also building a 4 lane road approach to it for several miles. The whole area is known as Los Planes, it is an agricultural area, with several small Mexican towns. We spent one night in La Ventana and are now on our way north, Ciudad Constitution today, hopefully further.