Tepic for Semana Santa
It seems like every year I play cheerleader for Los Pinos in Tepic, and here I go again!
We left home in Zihuatanejo the Wednesday before Easter, and went up the mountain to Patzcuaro. Villa Patzcuaro was FULL, with three of us dry camping. It's way too cold for us anyway, so we spent the afternoon in town, and on Thursday morning drove to Tepic.
Along the way, we lost the AC in the RV, and had a mud flap and bracket fly off doing body damage. (The RV is totally empty, weighs very little right now, and bounces like a ball on the bumpy roads.)
Los Pinos, with it's 10 spots and beautiful park like setting, was empty! We decided to stay long enough to troubleshoot the AC and get the body work done. Turns out that everyone in Tepic leaves for the 4 days before and including Easter. That's fine, the weather is lovely, the place is great (the dogs get to run like maniacs several times a day), grocery stores are open and plenty of great places still open to have lunch.
The AC turned out to be the thermostat, probably a big bump, and took out the circuit board. A new one was shipped to California today. The body work was done this afternoon, here in the park, and will be painted tomorrow morning. We also managed to get our INAPAM cards that we couldn't get in Guerrero.
We also found out that once we paid for 5 nights, that's tonight, we get two free!!!
This is a great park, great city with fabulous museums, climate and everything else going for it, and showers so nice that we use theirs instead of ours.
If you are like SO many other RV'ers we have run into this week leaving the beaches, consider Tepic! It's wonderful.
We left home in Zihuatanejo the Wednesday before Easter, and went up the mountain to Patzcuaro. Villa Patzcuaro was FULL, with three of us dry camping. It's way too cold for us anyway, so we spent the afternoon in town, and on Thursday morning drove to Tepic.
Along the way, we lost the AC in the RV, and had a mud flap and bracket fly off doing body damage. (The RV is totally empty, weighs very little right now, and bounces like a ball on the bumpy roads.)
Los Pinos, with it's 10 spots and beautiful park like setting, was empty! We decided to stay long enough to troubleshoot the AC and get the body work done. Turns out that everyone in Tepic leaves for the 4 days before and including Easter. That's fine, the weather is lovely, the place is great (the dogs get to run like maniacs several times a day), grocery stores are open and plenty of great places still open to have lunch.
The AC turned out to be the thermostat, probably a big bump, and took out the circuit board. A new one was shipped to California today. The body work was done this afternoon, here in the park, and will be painted tomorrow morning. We also managed to get our INAPAM cards that we couldn't get in Guerrero.
We also found out that once we paid for 5 nights, that's tonight, we get two free!!!
This is a great park, great city with fabulous museums, climate and everything else going for it, and showers so nice that we use theirs instead of ours.
If you are like SO many other RV'ers we have run into this week leaving the beaches, consider Tepic! It's wonderful.
