ROAD TRIP Took a picture of the sunrise the morning of our road trip. We were on the trail by 7:00 - Rich and Tina, Wayne and Deb (from Utah) and ourselves. Our destination: San Luis Ganzaga about 65 miles south of San Felipe, give or take a few miles…. 
First stop along the way - Cowpatty’s, just north of Puertocitos. It would be a beer stop, but it wasn’t open so we just used the facilities and took advantage of the time to take pictures. 
They are building a new highway to Ganzaga, and it’s a wonderful road; brand new hard top, nice three foot shoulders, pull-outs at view points…. but about 20 miles south of Puertocitos the road just ends. And when I say ends I’m not kidding. The writing on the ground is ‘finito’ and there is about a 10 foot drop…. We were traveling at about 80 kmh and literally had to slam on the breaks..
But we only just missed out turn, so we just had to backtrack a little and take the ‘old’ highway. This is the old highway - -
We ran into our painting teacher, Mary Lou about 5 miles down the old highway and followed her and her party to an old onyx mine. We spent the better part of an hour rummaging through the rocks and taking pictures before we said our good byes and carried on.
The trip to Ganzaga took us about 5 hours, including all our stops along the way. The reason it took so long to go such a short distance….. Check out these roads!!! We averaged 20 mph. But all in all we figure it was worth it.
The hotel wasn’t anything to write home about, but the bay was beautiful and the restaurant we had dinner at had very good food.
The next morning we had coffee on the patio and watched the sun come up. We had a good breakfast right there at the hotel and made it back to San Felipe in only 4 hours
Today we went painting. 
