The community market area of La Paz has
at least a dozen "Fiesta" stores which specialize in
everything needed to throw a party. In Mexican style that means,
paper and styrofoam plates and cups, plastic silverware, and a
big selection of Piņatas. JUST COASTING ALONG IN LA PAZ
We are still in La Paz and still happy being here. The climate is perfect and the local area provides all the goods and entertainment we need for a comfortable life. We spend a lot fo time wandering around town and can now find almost anything we need. Last evening we stumbled into a huge hardware store (Ferreteria), while looking for an electronics store. BEST Hardware has a tiny little window and door facing onto a small street. Once inside we found a modern hardware store that was stocked as well as any TrueValue in the US.
The community market area of La Paz has
at least a dozen "Fiesta" stores which specialize in
everything needed to throw a party. In Mexican style that means,
paper and styrofoam plates and cups, plastic silverware, and a
big selection of Piņatas.
The major portion of each fiesta store is dedicated to selling CANDY! I mean vast quantities of candy, shelves and shelves, rows and rows, and then enormous stacks of CANDY!
Here is Arlene negotiating for the acquisition of some essential sweets and dried fruits. Note the fine selection of mayonaise offered in one gallon containers. This is typical arrangement of goods in a fiesta store, just stacked up in the aisles and on grey metal racks, more candy and sweets than I knew existed.
We were trying to find the elusive electronics store that sold one pico farad capacitors. We had already been to two when this picture was taken, and we visited two more before we found the capacitors at Radio Shack.
We are trying to eliminate the loud whine that occurs on our
HAM radio below 10 MHz when the diesel engine is running.
Actually, we discovered that the whine is caused by the voltage
regulator anytime the ignition switch is turned ON , even when
the engine is not running. Disconnecting the voltage regulator
makes the whine stop. We'll put some capacitors in the 12V
powerlines for the radio and see if we can suppress the whine.
(Update 1/11/02 -The whine vanished when I loosened
and retightened the Coax cable antenna connection leading into
the ICOM transceiver. I guess there was some corrosion built up
on the threads that allowed the voltage regulator signal to enter
the anttena system- a cheap and easy solution)
The inner bay of La Paz is protected from the much larger Bahia La Paz by the El Magote spit or pennisula. El Magote is about 5 miles long and up to 1.5 miles wide. It is mostly sand and mangroves with a few small salt water channels running into it from the inner bay. We tried to explore some of those channels in the Portabote but found them to be very shallow.
Here are some more pictures of the El Magote area. There are no occupied houses or structures on the pennisula.
The eastern end of El Magote is all sand and extends as a two foot deep sandbar for about 4 miles into Bahai La Paz. Here are few pictures of that area:
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And finally here is Jerry on the east end of El Magote with the eastern end of La Paz in the background.
