Pimental Playa

It was surprisingly cool in the early morning compared to Zorritos last night. This may be a sign of the different water temperature and weather it brings. We had a slow start and let the kids play on the playground for a while. We got Werner and Lotte's contact info as we would be heading south and could give each other info on campgrounds.

Christine wasn't feeling good possibly from some bad hummus from the fridge from yesterday. We went to the mall a few minutes away and I took the kids to the Tottus hypermarket.

We bought what we needed and went back to the RV for the kids to eat the breakfast they had chosen: a hotdog in a flaky pastry for Dd and chicken fingers and French roll for Ellie.

They decided they wanted to play in the ball pit playground at the mall so we did that for an hour for $20 for the two of them. This is a way for parents to go shopping; you give the attendant your phone number. You can also get your car hand washed in the parking lot but I missed out on that opportunity. 

The kids had a blast at the playground and worked up a sweat. I researched places to stay and fill up water on the way south but nothing special showed up. 

We headed out of town around 1 pm, which is kind of late for us. The road south was not particularly interesting except that it was pretty good and flat and straight and the RV ran great. The scenery continues to remind us of Baja California. It is dusty and windy and lots of trash. The temperature was in the 80s instead of the 90s and we drove through sand dune regions. 

The kids played and didn't complain of car sickness while Christine mostly slept in back. 

I was able to find a gas station with a working faucet and topped off my water and bought some empanadas for the kids. We stopped for some Chifa, the Latin American Chinese food, and ordered chicken soup and wonton soup.  The broth was good but the wonton had undercooked sheets of wonton wrappers and no wontons.

The towns were really not appealing with dust blowing around so I pointed us toward a beach. Twenty minutes later we were in a beach town but unable to find a street that wasn't one way away from the malecon. Finally we headed back to the main road and found a spot on the beach.

They had caballitos de totora, reed fishing boats on the beach and some folks were selling the last fish from their nets. They had langostine, 3 for $5. I am not sure they were still alive though.

The beach was busy but dirty with trash from revellers. Hopefully someone cleans this up. The water was cold, similar to San Diego. There were not any trashcans around to use. We saw our first Peruvian hairless dog.

We moved a couple times to find a flat quiet spot. Hopefully no one bothers us tonight.