La Paz, BCS
We had a pretty good day in La Paz yesterday. The weather was great, and town was pretty crowded. Carnival is going on right now so they have rides and music and all kinds of cool things going on all along the Malecon. The Malecon is the main strip along the water front in town. It’s Called “Centro” but it’s not really the town center. I’d guess that it’s more the tourist center than anything.
The town just recently got a Sears store, so I was pretty happy to hear that I might be able to get some tools that are worth something down here. I’m not sure that I said it before, but I haven’t found any good tools down here. even at Home Depot over in Cabo, the Husky brand is even worse than they are in the States. Anyways, I headed over to Sears yesterday to scope out the tools, and sure enough, they did have some Craftsman brand tools! I wanted to get a set of 1/4″ drive sockets and a ratchet, and they had it in stock. The only bummer was that it was EXPENSIVE!!! 299 pesos for the sockets and 249 pesos for the ratchet. At a 13 to one exchange rate that would be $23 USD for the sockets and $19 USD for the ratchet! That’s probably more than a set from Snap-On. I decided to wait till I got back to the US. At least it’s getting better down here.
We are heading up into Loreto Marine park today. I hope to have some good pictures for the blog tomorrow. It’s so beautiful up there. Like the Grand Canyon next to the ocean.
