24 - 25 January 2007
San Ignacio, Baha California Sur, Mexico
---population: 4000
Rice and Beans Oasis Park
Dear Friends of Barbara and Charlie (B/C) ...
Humphrey here again. This email covers the drive back over the mountains toward Guerrero Negro and the Baja California - Baja California Sur province boundary check point, then back into the mountains toward Santa Rosalia, 212 miles. San Ignacio is about half-way between Guerrero Negro and Santa Rosalia. We stayed here two nights. Again this is posted three weeks later.
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The RV park is a little small for our crowd but we’ve learned to fit. The park overlooks a palm oasis. At the distant end of the park in the picture is a good restaurant which hosted one of our group dinners. In the picture Claudia is “coordinating” with her husband Jerry.
The town is known for the De Kadakaaran Mission San Ignacio founded in 1728, finished in 1786. It was the Jesuit priest who founded the mission who also planted the area’s date palms; date bread is now a local specialty.
We didn’t catch the name of the iconic priest wielding the broom, it may be a Franciscan priest replacing the Jesuits when they were thrown out of Mexico; the church was finished by the Franciscans.
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The mission fronts on a very attractive, shaded city park in which is found a public telephone that Barbara used to report to our daughter Elizabeth.
Adjacent to the square boys played video games, a video store offered rentals.
A street café owner watched TV awaiting customers, and a sidewalk beauty parlor operated in the shade of a tree.
And of course the ubiquitous internet cafe and the even more common curb-side mobile Coca-Cola stand that seems to be permanently imbedded in the concrete pavement. This is symbolic of Coke‘s presence in Mexico -- remember President Vincente Fox was previously president of Coca-Cola Mexico.
The town had a relaxed Mexican feeling with unusual backyard pets.
We had a very pleasant lunch with Al and Teri in a restaurant which looked out over a pond with a resident egret.
Next: Santa Rosalia
… Humphrey, for Charlie and Barbara
We had a very pleasant lunch with Al and Teri in a restaurant which looked out over a pond with a resident egret.
Next: Santa Rosalia
… Humphrey, for Charlie and Barbara
