Day 5 Playa Norte RV Park Los Barriles BCS, Mexico

Each day at dawn, the mourning doves are cooing, urging us to get out of bed and begin the day.  Our walk this morning.

Each day, people from the campground leave fruit peels and bits and pieces on this concrete pad. The cows, goats, birds, and other animals come here for treats!

Today the clouds were heavy and grey. We went first to get water from the water purification store.  After fueling the Jeep, we went west on Route 1 though San Bartolo and into San Antonio.  The view from the overlook.

We drove through the small town square.

We continued on the winding road to El Triunfo.  This is a very old historic town.  Some of the buildings are from the 1700’s.  There is an abundance of beautiful and unique masonry.

There are two chimneys in the town.  The smaller one La Julia, is older, built in 1860.  It was used for smelting silver that was mined here.

When people became aware of the polluting effects of the shorter tower, they built the second chimney, La Ramona in the 1890’s.  This is one of the few industrial chimneys from the 1800’s that still stands. A lot of effort has been made to preserve it.

We wandered through the side streets.  We bought sweet empanadas from a small street stand.  We found fresh French Country bread that smelled like heaven…we bought that too!

We were looking for our lunch spot and found this small palapa restaurant.  The food was cooked on this brick stove/oven.  The woman walked us into her kitchen to show us our choices.  She made us quesadillas with machaca and frijoles.  They were the most delicious quesadillas we have ever had. 

There was a small ice cream stand and Tim needed to stop there as well.  He had frozen yogurt with bananas and he was extraordinarily happy!

This evening we went into town to see the movie 1917.  It was shown in La Laguna Parque.  We brought our chairs.  The weather was mild and pleasant.  The movie was intense and fast paced and the evening was quickly over. We drove back through town to the RV Park at 9:30 and the streets and shops were quiet and closed.