LaPenita Better and Better
Our stay at La Penita RV Park just gets better and better. We are doing a lot of exploring and having a great time with every thing we find. This park was billed as the friendliest park in all of Mexico and I can believe it. Not only did we make life long friends with the group of 5 couples that traveled together and were affectionately named the “Happy Hookers”, but those that continue to show up and claim their spots are all extremely pleasant to be around.
There are so many structured events that take place within the park that for sure one can not get bored. Every morning from 7:00 to 12:00 breakfast is served pool side. At 10:00 pool volley ball starts. Thursday is market day in down town La Penita. Sunday afternoon starting at 5:00 is burger night at the pool. Tuesday evening starting at 5:00 is “Taco Tuesday”, taco’s are six peso’s each (.60), and the margaritas are free. There are water aerobic classes, stretching and yoga classes, line dancing classes, and several others that I can not remember. The local beautician comes to the park two days a week for hair cuts, and manicure sessions for the ladies. There is a chiropractor who comes once a week (he gets lots of business). The purified water truck comes through the park every day and you set your empty 5 gallon jug outside with $1.70 taped to it and he leaves a fresh one. The fresh fish/shrimp truck comes a couple times a week. The lady who runs the bakery delivers to the park twice a week. At any given moment someone can knock on your door and announce that they are hosting a patio party, just bring a dish and come on over.
This is going to be a tough ticket to leave if we decide to move on at the end of our month that we initially committed too. The park managers have given us the green light to stay till March if we like but we have this itch under our saddle and may want to go further down the coast and check out a few more parks. We will see.
The jungle surroundings are all around you and the critters can be very interesting. We have yet to see our first iguana but others have seen a lot of them. Some up to several feet in length. We did have a big snake come by our site a couple days ago but he was going “hell bent for leather” and I just caught a glimpse of him. Last evening Kathleen went to move the little wooden portable cloths drying rack we have set up outside and a “walking stick” about 8” long had taken up hanging from one of the spokes. There are little geckoes (lizards), everywhere. Some of the guys who have managed to catch them place them on their shoulder and the little things become quite a pet, the problem surfaces, when they want to go in to the motor home and the wife says---“no way with that thing on your shoulder.”
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