{"id":2660,"date":"2014-03-04T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:53:01","slug":"our-bags-are-packed-we-are-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":"Our Bags are Packed, We are Ready to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t blogged for a while since how many doing nothing and how many hanging out on the beach pictures can you take? There is one interesting thing. There is a couple from Playa del Carmen that drive down to Xpu-Ha, a couple of days per week and make these wonderful sand sculptures, right in front of our camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SandSculpture_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SandSculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SandSculpture_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SandSculpture\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Above is a Dragon. Below is a Scorpion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ScorpionSandSculpture_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ScorpionSandSculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ScorpionSandSculpture_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ScorpionSandSculpture\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We have seen grasshoppers, Iguanas, Corona Beer bottle, Palm Tree and lots of other cool pieces of art that last for only a day or so.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is the only art that Peggy &amp; I produce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JONPEGCLAUDEMAGS_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"JONPEGCLAUDEMAGS\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JONPEGCLAUDEMAGS_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"JONPEGCLAUDEMAGS\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few nights ago we went out to eat and a real nice restaurant right on the highway called Oscar &amp; Lalo\u2019s. We met the daughter of the owners, who may be retired by now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peg_John_OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Peg_John_OL\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peg_John_OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Peg_John_OL\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Claude_Mags_at_OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Claude_Mags_at_OL\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Claude_Mags_at_OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Claude_Mags_at_OL\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Shirley_Rob__OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Shirley_Rob__OL\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Shirley_Rob__OL_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley_Rob__OL\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peg_Oscar-Lalo_lobby_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Peg_Oscar-Lalo_lobby\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peg_Oscar-Lalo_lobby_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peg_Oscar-Lalo_lobby\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Swiss-252520Military-252520Vehicle_thumb-25255B4-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Swiss Military Vehicle\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Swiss-252520Military-252520Vehicle_thumb-25255B4-25255D-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"Swiss Military Vehicle\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young guy from Switzerland showed up in this 35 year old troop carrier that he converted into a camper. He is planning on driving it to Panama. His sister did the art work on the sides.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 6 wheel drive 80 HP diesel, I think he can camp anywhere with out getting stuck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Last-252520sunrise._thumb-25255B4-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Last sunrise.\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Last-252520sunrise._thumb-25255B4-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Last sunrise.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our last\u00a0 sunrise, we leave tomorrow morning. 3\/5 at 6 AM. Here are our trip plans back to the border; <a href=\"https:\\\\bcpoa.org\/mexico\/MXMap13_8a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trip Plan 8<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t blogged for a while since how many doing nothing and how many hanging out on the beach pictures can you take? There is one interesting thing. There is a couple from Playa del Carmen that drive down to Xpu-Ha, a couple of days per week and make these wonderful sand sculptures, right in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=2660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Bags are Packed, We are Ready to Go<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1314trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/6980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}