Day 69 - Mazatlán

We stayed for five beautiful days on the beach in Mazatlán. Poor Ursula was sick for two days with diarrhea and a fever. We need to be more careful with drinking water—no ice cubes in restaurant drinks, and eating cooked food whenever possible.

The day before yesterday, we watched the world soccer final excitedly. It was the Dutch vs. Germany. Both played excellently, and in the end, the Germans won with a penalty kick.

Wally performed the second service on our vehicle. He also painted the letters SUIZA on the front section of the pop-up roof. Other travelers recommended removing the hubcaps and side mirrors because they would almost certainly get stolen.

Today we met a German couple who stayed at the same campground. They travel in a white VW Camper and are headed for South America. Since we have similar itineraries, we decided to travel in tandem. We went out to dinner with them and "peeled the orange." Wolfgang was an anesthetist, and Barbara was a surgical nurse. On the way to Guadalajara, we visited a Tequila distillery and had the opportunity to purchase 4 pints of Añjeo (aged in oak barrels). It looks like we are going to have lots of fun!

We needed a Volkswagen dealership to buy spare parts (a clamp for the exhaust pipe, a set of wheel bolts, and a driving pin and seal for the fuel pump). Maybe we could even find the anti-theft bolts for the spare wheel (they weren’t available in NA). Before leaving Mazatlán, we met a Swiss fellow returning from South America with the same camper as ours.

He no longer needed his water-purifying device and sold it to us for $30.Read more