Day 3 in PP....We get a call from Leticia and she wants to meet us at 2 pm to show us some places. Now when I talked to Bill the agent she works with, we told him we just signed a contract for a month in an apartment so we need something for Jan 1, and so can take our time looking, especially since we were not too happy with what we had seen so far...except for the little orange house of course...the one that needs a fridge, a stove and a water heater.
We got up, went over to the apartment, signed with him (Gabriel), and since it was only a few minutes after 10am, we hit the AA meeting that was in English that started at 10. That was good and I met a woman there who was happy to have another women since I guess they're scarece around here...I asked where they all were and she said at the bar I guess ha ha! Cause this town is at least the size of Petaluma our home town, and we got lots there...lots everywhere....anyway....After that we went and got the trailer and all our stuff out of the hotel and checked out- yipee! and moved into our apartment. But decided to only bring the stuff from the back of the truck in, meet with Leticia then come back and just pull what we really needed for the month. Lucky plan as it turned out.
So then we took a drive around Puerto Penasco; Poppi took me up by all the resrt hotels and we went out to this neighborhood called Cholla Bay that's outside town and right on the beach. Alot for sale out there. When the economy tanked in the US, it really tanked here apparently. By then it was time to go meet her so we met her at Sam's club. So we meet Leticia and her amiga, and she asks if we might be interested in a "double house"...what? Do you mean a duplex, well no, butif you are interested we can take a look, it's nearby. So we ok. She is very nice and I already like her better than Maria bitchface. We drive down the main drag, Benito Juarez and take a left down another main street...(meaning paved ha ha), but it has a lot of businesses and resturants and houses. We go quite a few blocks and turn left into a small unpaved but smooth street. It's a street between two major streets, and the second house is a small red house with a fence and a 2 gates, one for walking one for your car. The gates were solid but the fence wrought iron. There are actually 2 places, one a small studio, then a small open area and next to it a bigger house. The bigger house turns out to have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Now, it's not huge, but SO much bigger than anything we've seen....and...it's $250US per month! Leticia actually lives in the studio but is moving to Phoenix in about 3 weeks. We walk around and then talk privately...we both like it very much. We like the location, the small yard for Sam, the size- we won't be falling over each other, and there's room for our families to visit! Ha ha we JUST signed a contract for a month on the apartment.....so...we call the guy and we are able to get out of it for only $200. He gives us back our securtity deposit and no hard feelings. He actually felt bad that he already spent the $200 rent so he didn't have it. He was very happy that we understood. But hey- we signed a contract- that's what they're for. So we could have lived there all onth and Leticia would have held the house, but why? What about internet, and tv? Would we go without for a month while we thought about the place we planned to call home for the next couple of years? Seemed silly, so we let the $200 go, and grabbed out stuff, and now we are in our new home!! I am sitting next to the open door to get internet from Leticia ha ha, it's 7am and she's already gone to work...she said she'd keep her internet until the last minute so we could use it until we get our own hook up. It works fine for Everardo all thru the house, he was in bed online...pobre Terry has to sit by an open door. Not sure why my laptop doesn't pick it up and his does, maybe first come first serve. Anyway I'm not doing it from a motel lobby ha ha. So now we have housekeeping to do. Grocery shopping, stuff shopping. There's a vegetable stand Poppi remembers down the road and we're headed there..ok I think I'm caught up to today so I'll start writing about the trip next....off to shopping...
We got up, went over to the apartment, signed with him (Gabriel), and since it was only a few minutes after 10am, we hit the AA meeting that was in English that started at 10. That was good and I met a woman there who was happy to have another women since I guess they're scarece around here...I asked where they all were and she said at the bar I guess ha ha! Cause this town is at least the size of Petaluma our home town, and we got lots there...lots everywhere....anyway....After that we went and got the trailer and all our stuff out of the hotel and checked out- yipee! and moved into our apartment. But decided to only bring the stuff from the back of the truck in, meet with Leticia then come back and just pull what we really needed for the month. Lucky plan as it turned out.
So then we took a drive around Puerto Penasco; Poppi took me up by all the resrt hotels and we went out to this neighborhood called Cholla Bay that's outside town and right on the beach. Alot for sale out there. When the economy tanked in the US, it really tanked here apparently. By then it was time to go meet her so we met her at Sam's club. So we meet Leticia and her amiga, and she asks if we might be interested in a "double house"...what? Do you mean a duplex, well no, butif you are interested we can take a look, it's nearby. So we ok. She is very nice and I already like her better than Maria bitchface. We drive down the main drag, Benito Juarez and take a left down another main street...(meaning paved ha ha), but it has a lot of businesses and resturants and houses. We go quite a few blocks and turn left into a small unpaved but smooth street. It's a street between two major streets, and the second house is a small red house with a fence and a 2 gates, one for walking one for your car. The gates were solid but the fence wrought iron. There are actually 2 places, one a small studio, then a small open area and next to it a bigger house. The bigger house turns out to have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Now, it's not huge, but SO much bigger than anything we've seen....and...it's $250US per month! Leticia actually lives in the studio but is moving to Phoenix in about 3 weeks. We walk around and then talk privately...we both like it very much. We like the location, the small yard for Sam, the size- we won't be falling over each other, and there's room for our families to visit! Ha ha we JUST signed a contract for a month on the apartment.....so...we call the guy and we are able to get out of it for only $200. He gives us back our securtity deposit and no hard feelings. He actually felt bad that he already spent the $200 rent so he didn't have it. He was very happy that we understood. But hey- we signed a contract- that's what they're for. So we could have lived there all onth and Leticia would have held the house, but why? What about internet, and tv? Would we go without for a month while we thought about the place we planned to call home for the next couple of years? Seemed silly, so we let the $200 go, and grabbed out stuff, and now we are in our new home!! I am sitting next to the open door to get internet from Leticia ha ha, it's 7am and she's already gone to work...she said she'd keep her internet until the last minute so we could use it until we get our own hook up. It works fine for Everardo all thru the house, he was in bed online...pobre Terry has to sit by an open door. Not sure why my laptop doesn't pick it up and his does, maybe first come first serve. Anyway I'm not doing it from a motel lobby ha ha. So now we have housekeeping to do. Grocery shopping, stuff shopping. There's a vegetable stand Poppi remembers down the road and we're headed there..ok I think I'm caught up to today so I'll start writing about the trip next....off to shopping...
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