Mexico Trip Day 3

Wednesday we drove to Lake Chapala, it was about a 2 hour drive. It was very pretty around it.
On the way we say many little places along the road selling anything from food to tires. (Lots of little roadside tire stands, roads must be very bad.) After leaving Chapala we were going to go to Zamora, where Wes spent some time on his mission. We drove, and drove, was delayed by road work and then found that we had missed the turn off. (That happened alot). After finding out that it would take about another 3 hrs. we decided to catch the freeway and go back to Guadaljara. But I did get to see some interesting country side and small towns. They gave the impression of going through Fort Hall. Not trailers, but old houses that are all connected.
This is a restaurant in Chapala. Must have been an awesome house of an important person back in the day.

This is a monument for fishermen. The guys in the back are holding a net.

Yep, see we were there. Rich people live over in those housed behind us. They have their own private pier.

It is a really big lake.

The captain of the ship. We were always asked if we wanted to launch over to an island. I didn't feel like these boats looked too safe. Nor was there anything on the island.

Chief Chapala

Some of the fishermen. Look carefully and you can see the pop bottle that this guy and most every other person was using. This guy is casting in this picture. In the background is an older guy with a hat. He was also using a pop bottle. He used tortillas for bait. I wanted to see someone catch a fish, but alas we didn't. They must sell them to all the eating places along the lake since most of them sold only sea food. Hmm I wonder if they catch the octopus there. This technique was ingenius.

A pier on Lake Chapala. Several people fishing.

A cool picture of a coconut tree.

Another market place near the Lake. We bought more gifts here. They had a WC. (I thought those were only in England. But you had to pay 30 cents to go in. there was a guy at the door to take the money and give you some toilet paper. It would be bad if you needed more. He also had a little candy stand there. We didn't buy any candy from him. Anyway I thought it was funny. Oh, nothing opens until noon. Yea, even the WC.

This little Indian lady was doing her weaving. We bought one of the bags that she made. Notice her shirt.

These wells and SOS points were every 5 min. along the freeway. They must have alot of cars overheat. Wes had to check it out.

See the awesome stone fence.