Sunday, April 21

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This was another long, hard, and interesting day. I took off for Calamajue at 8:30 am. I stopped at Rancho Grande for beer for the boys, then started down the road around 9:00 am. I told Jay to come looking for me if I was not home by 2:00 pm. I made Coco's Corner in good time, then turned toward Calamajue. Half way there I got a flat which totaled the tire. It was a full sidewall blowout. Good thing I had a spare! I figured out the jack and the lug wrench, and after a little work I got the tire changed. This took some effort since the jack wasn't really long enough. I found a rock to put under it and finally got it all to work. Once the tire was changed I continued toward Calamajue. Five kilometers before I got there I had another flat. It was another sidewall blowout. The rocks on the road are really viscous. It was 10:45, so it was to be a long wait for Jay. I walked down to the beach to see my boat and to say hi to the fishermen. They had just finished the day's fishing, so I talked to Garey for a while. Nice, interesting guys...They offered me lunch, but I had just recently eaten After a couple hours they gave me a ride back to the truck and I gave them the cases of beer I had brought them. I was back at 2:45 which I figured was the absolute earliest Jay could be there. Jay showed up at about 4:00 pm, and we drove to Mex 1 to get new tires. There was one in Jay's truck and we bought another at the llantera. We had a couple bad tacos while we waited for the tires to be mounted. We got a used tire and had both mounted for about 28 dollars. We returned to the truck, mounted the tire, and continued to Calamajue. The fishermen had just about finished the beer we brought them and were all a bit drunk. They helped us load the boats onto the rack and were a little too interested in all our gear as we transferred it from the boats to the truck. I would have preferred to just leave it all in the kayaks, but it made them too heavy for the rack. We had a long drive home over those roads in the dark, and finally made it home about 9:30. We tried to stop at Rancho Grande for a beer before bed, but they were closed. They seem to have random hours there. Sometimes open till early morning, sometimes they close early. We were exhausted and went right to bed.