Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
It is just as well that we decided not to move on. The new hot water heater is not here (surprise, surprise). Earliest new delivery date is for tomorrow (Saturday) but I am not holding my breath.
This called for drastic action - a Road Trip!
We got together with a few fellow cruisers for a quick day-trip to a couple of nearby small towns, Concordia and Copala, both along the same highway. We rented a very nice Toyota van with plenty of room for the 10 of us that comprised our group - Roger on SV Sandpiper kindly volunteered to do the driving which suited us fine.
Concordia is the closer of the two towns, only about 50km from the marina, but the combination of road-works in the outskirts of Mazatlan and the slow, winding nature of the highway, turned this into about an hour's drive.
Concordia is a very typical Spanish town with a central plaza and church, built on a high point of land, with the village spreading out on all sides. Their specialty here is furniture; very high-quality hardwood chairs and tables, etc. thus the central attraction in the square being a giant chair (insert obligatory picture here). We spent about an hour and a half exploring the town and enjoying some fresh "Mango on a stick" - no elegant way to eat one of those.
Then we drove on for another 1/2 hour or so to the town of Copala. This is a much smaller but incredibly picturesque village, again built around a central plaza and church. The streets here are all cobblestones showing wear consistent with the 500 year age of the town. We had lunch at the local Gringo-trap restaurant, not that it was all that bad, especially the world-famous banana coconut pie. Most everyone ended up buying some of the local hand-made leather goods, before we headed back to the marina. With nine people navigating, it's a wonder we only got lost once.
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{GMST}23|17.33|N|106|4|W|Concordia, Sinaloa, Mexico|Concordia, Sinaloa, Mexico{GEND}
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