We stayed with friends Bob & Sharlene. They were the ones who were going to join us on our trip in October. Sharlene fell the first day and broke her leg. She is doing much better. She is still using a walker, and a wheel chair for longer trips, like when we went to Balboa Park to visit the museums.
We got quite a bit done this week:
- Got all our boat parts
- Saw our beer group friends
- Got our teeth cleaned and checked by the dentist
- Bought hiking boots for both of us
- Got some clothes (some lightweight fast drying shorts for Neil)
- Checked out some two player games to take back (got two from our friend Ken, Qwirkle and Pirateer)
- Made copies (passports, TIP, boat documents, etc.)
- Saw our oldest son (drove south about 80 miles)
- Saw my uncle (drove north about 120 miles, and then drove him up to Big Bear for a beer)
- Went to church
- Shipped our old Iridium GO! Back for repair/warranty work
- Renee’ had a doctor appt. or two
- All told, we drove about 720 miles (this does not count the miles we were just passengers)
It was a pretty good trip. The details that go with the trip are:
We took an Uber from the marina to the airport. It rained the night before, so the roads were pretty much flooded that morning. So, when we walked out to meet the Uber driver, we had to be careful to avoid the lakes. The airport in La Paz is pretty small, I think it only had about 5 gates for planes. It was very clean and easy to get around.
The plane we rode was a Calafia ERJ145 it is listed as a 50 seat airplane made in Brazil. While pretty comfortable, it is not very tall, as I could not stand straight up in the aisle. We flew directly to Tijuana from La Paz. We used the CBX service to cross the border, there is a fee to use this service, but it is reasonable. I think it cost us about $50 to get across the border and shuttle to Santa Fe Station to meet our friends Bob and Sharlene (who happened to be in San Diego to drop off the pastor from their church who was flying out the next day).
The trip back was similar, we got a ride from Bob and Sharlene to the Carlsbad train station, and rode the train to Sante Fe Station, then caught the CBX shuttle to the border, walked across into the airport, and got through customs and to our gate by about 1100. Really not any harder than getting to San Diego Airport. We had a layover on the way back to La Paz, Loretto we landed were on the ground about 30 minutes and back in the air for 30 more minutes and back in La Paz. We used an Uber to get back to the Marina and we were back on our boat by about 5 pm local time,
