La Paz

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Yesterday the group had an organized city bus tour and lunch. The guide, Pamela, was adorable as spoke English very well.  We loaded up on a really nice bus and headed into La Paz. The tour started with a three story history museum. 

A museum docent guided us through - and the history covered early times through the Mexican Revolution. Next we walked next door to an old building that had once been a sanitorium, then prison and now a combined library and day care center. 

The building was old and beautiful and we were told that it was haunted and had underground tunnels leading to the nearby mission. 

The bus returned to the terminal and we walked around the city - stopping in the mission, some small shops and then along the shoreline to lunch. The city was very clean and had beautiful sculptures near the water. 

Lunch was across from the beach and included delicious desert. 

While we were touring, Stuart and two of our friends - Peter and Fred - went searching for an electrical voltage regulator. “Full hook up” campsites in Mexico hold a different meaning than those in the US. For example, we have a 30 amp plug at our campsite, but it only outputs about 104 volts, so our surge protector will not let the low voltage into the trailer. To combat this, you can add an apparatus into the line that raises or boosts the voltage as necessary.  Thankfully the guys found a man who could get one from Mexico City and deliver it to us at our next stop. We pay a premium for it, but it’s worth it to know that the pets can stay cool in the a/c when we are off touring.  When we arrived that this campground, the a/c first came on but then tripped as others started plugging in. The camper got up to 97 degrees inside!  Others with the regulator were able to keep theirs running, so we feel like it’s a worthwhile investment now that daily temps have risen up to 95 or so. 

We stayed back from the tour today (Todos Santos) so the kids could have a reset day - getting caught up on homework and veg out. The 6 hour + days of planned tours can be a bit hard on them sometimes. We will head to the grocery store for more fresh fruits and veggies and dinner options, wash sheets and towels, fill our water tanks with fresh water (we buy five gallon bottles of purified water and funnel them in one by one - this process makes us more thoughtful of our water usage and also keeps our tanks from harboring unsafe bacteria that can be found in the water from the local spigots) and probably take a trip to the swimming pool. Tomorrow we head to another beach destination called Los Barrilles.