Central America Trip #100

Mary is no longer available for RV traveling, but we remain good friends.
Because we have 4,000+ postings, I’ve invited her to continue posting entries on this blog.

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The motorhome is parked at Mary’s home in Murphys, California. While here I’ll perform routine maintenance and cleaning of both the motorhome and Bronco.

Mary had surgery on her right shoulder April 15th.

I want to assist her during recovery however I can. I assisted her with her left shoulder surgery in 2009. Whenever it’s convenient and I know that she is comfortable, I’ll make my future travel plans at that time.

Recently I’ve been running blogs about my 2004 Central America trip. While here, I’m intending to continue those postings while also alternating with this area blogs.

Today, I’m taking you back to my…

2004 Central America trip…

This trip ended up being 343 days and 16,000+ miles through the back-country of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 11 rigs started the trip, within a week we broke into three smaller groups for ease of traveling. Only myself and one other rig went the full, pre-planned route. All the others dropped out for various reasons. All returned safely to the United States. I’m planning to show these photos, more or less, 10 a day, whenever I’m not doing something else deserving a blog entry. FINALLY, it must be remembered these photos are prior to my switching to digital in 2006. The films were developed during our trip and the lack of quality control sometimes is plainly evident.

 

Today…Mexico (north-bound) 25…

 

The RV’s are parked in Guanajuato. We took the Bronco on a day trip to La Valencia where we visited  the…

 

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

 

 

 

Valencia silver mine…

 

 

 

It was once the richest mine in the world and is still active today…

 

 

The main shaft is 40 feet wide, goes straight down for 1,500 feet and at the bottom spokes out into eight separate shafts…

 

 

 

About 490 million tons of silver have been mined in this area and about three-quarters of that came from this mine…

 

 

 

Back in Guanajauto, elevation 6,666 feet and a population of about 141,000, we found a number of tunnels…

 

 

 

Some of the tunnels are as much as one-half mile long with no ventilation for engine fumes…

 

 

 

And very narrow streets. Not an RV friendly place…

 

 

 

We move on to the city of Leon, elevation 6,250 feet and a population of about 1,133,500. Bud’s friend Julie flew in to join us for a bit…

 

 

 

Called El Templo Expiatrio (Church of Atonement) which began construction in 1921 and yet to be completed…

 

 

 

The interior has over 20 altars and also perhaps the most beautiful stained glass we have seen on the entire trip…

More Leon soon…

 

Here’s my trip website link…http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust

I hope you enjoyed the photos.

 Yesterday was partly sunny and 64 degrees. Forecast for today is partly sunny and 71 degrees.

Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

The red dot on the below map shows my approximate location in the State of California. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…

On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!

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http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8

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