 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico Here we are, just North of Acapulco at a little town called Pie de la Cuesta. We're sure you can see why we chose this RV Park. Isn't this gorgeous! The view, the landscaping, the private covered patio area and the private pool, which has it's water replaced every three days. Very nice. It is too bad it is so HOT, we have had to keep our air conditioning on the whole time we were here, and that is a first. We can only stay for 3 days and then we must get off the
coast, we plan to come back down and visit here before continuing our
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 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico What do you think of this nightmare? We personally have never
seen anything quite like this before. Once again, there is little
evidence of an Electrical Code here in Mexico. This distribution
center supplied power to a rather poor neighborhood outside of town.
Looking on the positive side, at least these people have SOME power for
lights, fans and other low power draw items. We're certain that an
air conditioner would NOT run on ANY of these circuits! |
 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico Notice the wires criss-crossing all over the place above the house,
unbelievable! |
 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico There was this huge lagoon near Pie de la Cuesta and it looked like it
was a great place to water ski. |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico Our first glimpse of Acapulco, and we don't actually see too much more
of it, just a few pictures as we only spent a short time there. We
will visit again when we get back to the coast. |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico The majority of their taxi's were blue and white Volkswagen Bugs. There were so many of them zooming all over the place, they looked so cute. Cindy has fond memories of her family of seven owning a VW Bug. Mom and Dad in the front seats, the three eldest children in the back seat with Cindy and her younger brother in the cubby in the very back. What fun! (Hi everyone in Cindy's Family, we miss you!!) Notice the sign that says "Mercado Central" up in the far right hand
side of the screen? This was one of the entrances to an incredible market.
Take a look at these pictures of the inside... |
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Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico They were selling more plastics in one place then we have ever seen,
piled from floor to ceiling... |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico ...and pots and pans... |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico ...and lunch...oh how tempting! |
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Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico ...and peppers of all sorts, garlic and spices... |
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 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico And look at that pile of eggs! The price you see is 19 pesos per
kilo. There are thirty eggs on each of these flats and the weight is
just over one kilo. Usually, we buy eggs this way and the price for
a whole flat is about 23 pesos (about CND$2.30). |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico This guy was a real character, he saw us taking pictures and held up
fish after fish for us to take pictures of. We thought this one was
the best!! And no, we did not buy it. By the way, do you
think they kind of look alike :)? |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico Pollo, pollo and more pollo. We love chicken and eat a lot of it.
When they sell you these, they take them down and whack them into pieces
and put them in a bag and you are all set. Remember, the reason they
are so yellow is that a part of their feed is marigolds... |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico And the Carniceria has steak, pork, chorizo, etc. Fresh and
delicious. Actually we have a very hard time finding a good steak at
the Carniceria's. We usually have to wait until we are at a large grocery
store like, Gigante, Mega, Walmart Super Center, Ley or Soriana.
And even then, it has to be the best cut to get it tender. |
 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico More peppers and spices... |
 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico Yard art? We still get a chuckle out of this... |
 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico After our day trip to Acapulco, we are happy to be back at
the RV Park and we went for a wonderful, refreshing swim. By the way, as
usual at this time of the year, we are the only ones in the RV Park! So we
have the pool to ourselves. Ahhhhh life is good, but HOT! |
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 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico This ostrich lives at the RV Park permanently. His
name is 'Coco'. He would strut around and
around and then walk over and stare at you when you talked to him.
Notice his feet, they look like something from a pre-historic bird. |
 Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero, Mexico Isn't he cute! |
 Traveling inland, heading North, Guerrero, Mexico We hate to leave Acapulco, but we really do need to get off the coast
and we will be back in the fall. We are now heading north and up
into the mountains of Central Mexico. We should have some relief from the
heat very soon. |
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Traveling inland, heading North, Guerrero, Mexico Happy 40th Cindy!! Yes, those are scrambled eggs that Barry has put her
candles in. What a sweetheart he is! :) |
 Xochipala, Guerrero, Mexico During our time in Central Mexico we wanted to visit colonial cities and archeological sites. We are pretty excited, after exiting the highway and working our way up this narrow winding mountain road, we finally find this site. Then, we have to walk 2km to the site. Well, it was well worth it. Approximate location is 17.805002, -99.608498 and if you have
Google Earth
downloaded to your computer, copy & paste these coordinates into the 'Fly
To' field and enjoy the ride. With
Google Earth, a
free program, you can zoom in & out on satellite photos of any location on
Earth. You can also 'tilt' the view to give the features a 3D
look... very cool. Note: Some of the satellite images of the
earth offer higher resolutions than other areas. So, more detail
will be shown in these areas. At this location, there is not a lot
of detail but you will see roads and the surrounding mountains. We
did not have a GPS at the time we went there so we used Google Earth and
various maps to pinpoint the location, it's with a kilometer or so of
being accurate. |
 Xochipala, Guerrero, Mexico There had been a recent rain, thank goodness we wore our hiking
boots. By the time we got through this part, they our boots felt like lead weights
on our feet. |
 La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico We're almost there... |
 La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico Wow, how exciting!! Just think of the history of this place. |
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La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico We saw this entrance and decided to go inside, Cindy just stepped
inside the entrance, Barry felt his way down the tunnel, very cool! |
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La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico Cindy, standing safely by the door, while her manly man ventures in to
get a good photo of the inner sanctum. It was pitch black in there,
and we wished we had brought a flashlight. The flash from the
camera lit things up quite nicely for the photo. |
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La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico Well, they sure chose a nice site to build their little city on.
Look at
that view! |
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La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico Get a load of the size of that cactus, it reminds us of the one we saw
at Los Cerritos on Baja. This one must stand about 25 ft tall. |
 La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico On the way back to the coach, we took a photo of one of the fields that
we passed by. As you can see, the soil is very rocky and we are
certain that the field was plowed with a horse & plow. Corn is the
crop here, just sprouted a short time ago. |
 La Organera, Guerrero, Mexico Here we are, out in the middle of nowhere and we are hiking back to the
coach after visiting the archeological site and we come across these two,
hanging out and grazing by the side of the road. Aren't they cute? |
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 Heading North towards Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico Look at that river, it looked like chocolate milk, and went on and on
for miles. It was really flowing quickly. |
 Heading North towards Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico In memory of... |
 Just South of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico On the way to Taxco we decided to stop at this Silversmith shop.
We understand that Spartling Silver is famous for their silver and have
been in business since 1929. The property and buildings were just
gorgeous and we were able to meet the apprentice of the founder and some of his employees
while they were hard at work. |
 Just South of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico Look at the height of those bamboo bushes, they were incredibly tall.
Notice the quaint cobble stone driveway. |
 Just South of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico The elderly gentleman is the apprentice of the founder (looks like he
knows what he is doing by now!) and he and this other fellow were making
these silver serving spoons. |
 Just South of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico We were able to walk around freely and we saw so many antiques.
We also saw this press. |
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Just South of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico There was this beautiful winding river on the property and high up in
this huge tree was a wonderful tree house. |
| Well, there you have it, that completes our update for
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