On our return to the park we passed a statue of Emeliano Zapata, a leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. One of his famous quotes was "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees". He was a man of the people and worked with Pancho Villa who was even more famous and made raids into New Mexico. "Viva Zapata" was the battle cry of the people.
Just south of Casitas we saw our first lighthouse in Mexico. Pat is a great fan of lighthouses, took the photo and added it to her collection of lighthouses. She has photos of most of the lighthouses on both the east and west coast of the U.S. as well as almost all of them in the maritime provinces of Canada, including Newfoundland. We will always cherish our years we spent living on the boat, much better than RVing but things change with age and the problems that go with it.
Bad news today, my handicap scooter ignition stopped working and unless we can repair it I will have to skip a lot of visits to the ruins etc. There are no dealers in Mexico with the exception of Mexico City and Guadalajar and we won't be there. I'll spend those times dog and cat sitting as we have five dogs and one cat in our group.
We learned today that when we reach Campeche in about ten days, all of our pork, chicken and eggs will be taken from us by the Federales of that province. Tonight we had our first potluck dinner of which the main course was a large pork roast baked with a wash of orange juice, ginger and honey. We bought strawberries today for 25 pesos for a kilo (about 2 pounds for $25 cents U.S., so we had strawberry shortcake, salad, mashed potatoes, chips with homeade salsa and mucho Margaritas
Hasta Luego
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There are two things to check out while your there on the Emerald Coast. That first little village just south of you has an excellent fish market, we found super huge shrimp there for cheap, cheap, cheap. and across the street(water side) and just a little further south there is an excellent restaurant that serves whole snapper. It also was very good. Don't forget to visit http://spydermansadventures.blogspot.com/ every now and then. Have fun ya'll!!!
Sorry, but the deal wasn't as good as you think. At the current exchange rate of 11 pesos to the dollar, the 25 pesos was actually more like $2.25 USD. Still a good price, but not as good you you seemed to think.
Enjoy!
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