Meanwhile, back at the caravan group...

While we've been sitting here waiting for Sherman's parts to arrive, the caravan group has carried on according to the schedule. Michel and Louise, a couple who had expressed interest in leading their own caravan next winter had taken over as temporary wagon-masters until we can rejoin the group.

The group did three nights in Patzcuaro, and then yesterday they moved on to Chimulco Water Park in Villa Corona near the big city of Guadalajara.

Here's the group out for dinner in Patzcuaro...

Wish we were there!

I've heard that everybody enjoyed their time in Patzcuaro. Of course two full days there isn't enough... there is a lot to see and do in Patzcurao.

But, they had to move on. Yesterday was their drive to Villa Corona.

It did not go so smoothly!

I heard in the middle of the afternoon that the group was broken down on the new toll bypass around Guadalajara. And it was Michel and Louise who had broken down. They have a fairly new truck pulling a nice fifth wheel. Apparently some kind of sensor went bad and it put the rig into low power mode... which essentially means that you can move it around, but it won't drive at highway speed. They make these new rigs so complicated now with computers and electronics.

Anyhow, they were basically stuck.

But Caravanas de Mexico has a pretty good support network in Mexico, and Paul Beddows was in Melaque with another group. He had already driven up to Villa Corona to meet the group when they arrived there. He was able to get another camper who was already at Villa Corona to go in his pickup truck to get Michel and Louise's trailer where they were broken down, and then a tow truck could bring the truck to the campground.

Wow. I guess it's only the leaders who break down!

Well, essentially that's better than have the group members break down. But still...

So now, we have to wait on what the word will be for a time frame to get that repaired, and that may impact where we go from here once Sherman is ready.

While all this was going on, we did have some progress with Sherman. I walked over to the mechanic shop at 11:00 as agreed.

Eligio runs a nice clean little shop.

Eligio instructed his mechanic Pedrico to load a bunch of tools into the car, and then Pedrico drove me back to Sherman where he went right to work.

Sherman... dismantled and waiting for parts.

This morning, the parts are listed as being in Puebla and "out for delivery". 

I've already been up to talk to the guy at the front gate to let him know that a couple of packages are arriving for me at some point today. The earlier the better, so hopefully we'll get them this morning.

We bought a nice 3.5 lb whole chicken the other day for 53 pesos ($3.75 CAD, $2.95 USD) and I roasted it on our Weber Grill along with a couple of potatoes.

 Ready for carving!

Delicious!

We've decided that we're not going out to do any more exploring in this area for the time being. While there is a lot to see, we're enjoying just hanging around the RV Park and doing some relaxing, something we haven't had much chance to do on this trip! Also puttering around Sherman and doing some cleaning and minor repairs.

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