Jan 25, 2016
The drama continues
Erik never arrived till almost noon on Friday. First he completed the bedroom slide and then moved into the living room. that pretty much moved us four out into our yard once again. At least this time we could use our bathroom 😳 By then project number three showed up. Can you recall and how can you not, how we were flooded each time it rained and especially after the hurricane? Five years ago we ordered a quarter load of pea gravel to cover the sand and dirt of our yard. It has lasted a long time despite various severe storms and high waves. This year we arrived to very little gravel and decided that next year we would order more. Well as we were already out of our site it seemed logical to do it now.
The truck arrived noonish Friday with a full load.
We had been quoted 1600 pesos for a quarter load yet this fellow showed up with a full load for the same price. But we really didn’t need it all. The park owner offered to take half for 500 pesos. You can do all the math you want but this is Mexico.
Colin jumped up a few times to make sure we got our half of the load.
The driver then dumped the rest of the load at the back side of the park. Upon reflection we wondered if we should keep the entire load. 500 pesos was not worth giving up all that gravel.
Colin and Ishmael began to move in wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of gravel onto our site.
They worked side by side, load after load.
A pretty good team who only took a few water breaks. Soon we had 61 loads scattered through our site.
At this point we realized that we could likely use the entire load once we moved our RV back into place. Gravel behind our site and under the car would keep things very clean as well as in a few other places. Why give up a half load for only 500 pesos/27.00USD? However at this point the gravel was at the furthest place away from us, no worries, after all it is only a short wheelbarrow ride away.
Meanwhile Erik was well into the LR slide and came upon a problem. We had major rust on one of the integral parts.
The area indicates the damaged piece. Erick ( he really is the best ever ) discovered that we had a tiny crack in the drip molding that diverted a tiny amount of water along the rail which over time created the rust.
I don’t think there is another tech out there who would have taken the time to figure out the cause. So now we are awaiting a new piece, only this time it will be aluminum. Plus he will repair the problem so we will no longer have any diverted water drops. However that meant that our LR slide was not completed Friday. Erik plans to get back to us Monday. You do have to realize that he lives ( only in the winter, rest of the year he works in Canada ) and works in Mazatlan which means a long drive over to us here on the Isla including driving ‘the road’. Pretty soon we won’t be able to call it that as paving is once again in progress. For certain when we leave here we will be driving a paved road 😆 Great changes for us RVers ( only because of the road ) and for the restaurants ( income ) but there will for certain be a change as to the ambiance of the Isla.
This was taken either Friday or Saturday from the top step of the RV. A great new angle.
Saturday was mostly spent spreading all those piles of gravel.
Lupe the fellow doing the palapa work showed up to say that he was unable to pour the new cement post as there was no tube available on the Isla but he would instead spend he day cutting palm fronds for us. Friday he had delivered a few loads of wood. So basically Saturday was a no show for both Erik and Lupe but a gravel leveling day for Colin.
Lupe delivered two loads of palmas.
This was the last load…..a heck of a lot of palmas.
Sunday was a day of ‘rest’ so to speak. We did have to take down lots of our lights and such and move many things away from the palapa. From past experience we know that it will be a dusty and dirty job.
In answer to a few comments from my last post, it is much cheaper to do this here in spite of the disturbance to our home and our life here in paradise. We think that we are saving at least $3000.00USD by having the slide rubbers changed here in Mazatlan 😎
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As a gravel spreading by hand expert, all I can say is kudos to the spreaders. That’s a lot of gravel…
Hang in there!
Quite the busy few days. It will be nice to have it all done.
My lower back hurts just thinking about moving 61 loads of gravel. Recovery would include a lot of drinking. 🙂
Looks like its all coming together, soon you will be all set up again.
Oh MY!!!! gravel, I have done that!!! Geez, such work, I think I did 15 shovel fulls in a wheelbarrow was all I could lift and move…. such very hard labor to do…. but it sure looks nice!!!!