Sunday, December 11, 2005:
6:30AM - Quiet has returned to Mesa Francia.
The music from the wedding party which lasted past 3AM this morning is gone. We hear the sound of an ambulance's siren coming north on Highway No1. The siren is turned off near El Centro. Soon after, the flashing red emergency lights are visible as the ambulance moves up the hill. Then the lights are gone as the ambulance turns the corner to the hospital.
The bells of Iglesia Santa Barbara (church) quietly call out. It is Sunday morning on Mesa Francia and peace has returned to our Camp.
8:30AM - Morning walk.
Mr. Mavica and TriPod are anxious for their morning walk! Looking outside, we see that it is overcast. Our outside thermometer reads 61°F. A nice morning for our walk. Mr. Mavica wants to take a closer look at the homes that are glued into the hill south of town. These are homes in the hill with the cemetery along its summit.
11AM - Glued in homes.
We do not know how the land on which the homes shown in the pics below is purchased? None of these houses attached to the hillside have roads leading to them. There are only trails and stairs dug into the hill to take the people who live here to their homes.
The first pic (all are clickable thumbnails) is a long view of these homes from the hospital near our Camp. The cemetery may be seen at the top of the hill in this long view.
 
 
12 Noon - Francisco Quintanilla.
Poncho knocked on MsTioga's door. You remember that Poncho lives up the hill from our Camp, and worked for Francisco Quintanilla, the owner of the land on which MsTioga is parked. Poncho told me that Francisco Quintanilla wanted to talk to me on the phone. So we walked up the hill to Poncho's house and he phoned Se�or Quintanilla.
Luckily for me, Se�or Quintanilla speaks fluent English. He wanted to know how long that I planned to stay on his land. I asked permission to stay for the entire winter. Se�or Quintanilla expressed concern that others may get the wrong idea about his property. He gave me permission to stay, but told me that no neighbors could be invited to stay. Wow!
So now The Team is legally camped for free! Man-O-Man!!
3PM - A long nap.
With the music from the wedding fiesta next door going on past 3AM this morning, I had little sleep last nite. So this afternoon was nap time. A three hour nap! Upon getting up, I found that a family had come by to see MsTioga's now famous "Tiro Williams Mine" mural. It is really something that our mural is getting well known around Santa Rosalia!
5PM - Clouds over Santa Rosalia.
The pic below is taken from the garden of El Boleo Museum, looking over the bay and the Sea of Cortez. It is a gorgeous afternoon, with a slightly grey mood, don't you think?
 A cloudy Sunday afternoon in Santa Rosalia.
5:30PM - Cumplea�os!
As we were watching the bay after taking the pic above, a truck drove by with a bunch of balloons in a large clear plastic box, and headed up the hill. We saw it pull into the community hall next to our Camp. The balloons are for a fiesta, a party for the children who are having cumplea�os (birthdays). Wow! What a great time.
We asked permission to go inside, and Mr. Mavica took pics. There were maybe a hundred kids there having a ball. We found out that this community center is part of the Rotary Club. We saw banners from other Rotary Clubs from all over Southern California hanging on the wall inside.
  Hitting the piñata is a great time!
6:30PM - El Centro.
I headed down the hill for El Centro, the center of Santa Rosalia. The thing that I was thinking about was the carne asada cart across from the Santa Barbara Church. Do you like carne asada (BBQ beef)?
This particular carreta (cart or wagon) makes wonderful carne asada. One family runs this carreta, a young husband and wife and their children. They pay a fee to the local government for a license which allows them to park their carreta in the street all the time and also provides an electric line. When it rains, they stand in the rain. There is no cover for this carreta. But it does not rain much here.
I ate two carne asada tacos and a refresco (soda) which cost $30 pesos ($3US). Wonderful food. I will return here often.
Standing on the corner watching all the cars drive by.
We told you that it is the custom to cruise the two one-way streets in Santa Rosalia. Especially on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. The main intersection in El Centro is at the Santa Barbara Church. A very imposing lady policia was directing traffic this evening. She had a whistle which she used very often, directing cars up the street, stopping them for pedestrians and keeping everything flowing smoothly.
The beginning of my second week!
This Sunday afternoon is the beginning of my second week in Santa Rosalia. The week went by soooooo fast, it seems like only a few days have gone by. I am getting so comfortable living here. Everybody treats me so kindly, and are so friendly. Man-O-Man! I am a very lucky guy!
 
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