Start of Something New

This is the first post for me ever.....

I have started this blog in an effort to get on paper (or at least the 21 century kind) some of our adventures and experiences with our home away from home in Puerto Penasco. Some other stuff may filter in from time to time as life has a way of doing that.

Lets start with the beginning.

For many years we visited Mexico. My perspective of this place was not of new hotels, condo pools, or restaurants, but of the beach, sand, and the solitude of camping. At the time camping was what we could afford and we made the pilgrimage south many times a year to a place called El Gulfo. We did not camp at El Gulfo, but 25 to 30 miles south along the beach. Back then (the late 1990's), many times and closest camp was 5 miles away. One needs to love the beach to camp for 4 to 5 days in a place like this......but we loved it. Everything from sand storms, broken trucks, to federal police was part of the adventure. Times change and sleeping on the ground with sand in your hair became less glamorous and we re-discovered Puerto Penasco. This was not the same town that I had visited during my ASU days. This new Rocky Point became our place.....we grew to know the restaurants we liked, the beaches that were the best and started to really think long and hard about buying some land and building a house there. The problem at the time (2005 and 2006) was that prices were just going through the roof. We made offers on land that never went through, Realtors who really knew nothing, and disappointment after disappointment were the norm. We finally found our spot in late 2006 in Playa Encanto.....a great piece of sand, that had potential, a price we could afford, and a great owner who let us get our bank trust done before we had to give him all the money (a rare case in those days). Then started the adventure of the design, the money, and building in a new country with new rules and expectations.....but that is all done and we have a new home to enjoy. More to come as this is just the beginning. I plan to post some of the things we have done in Puerto Pensaco over the past six months since the house has been done (the house was basically done in May of 2008), as well as the new happenings.


Vince Dalke