We rent an apartment in a building with six other families, all in varying sizes of apartments. Ours is one of the largest, with two bedrooms, many of the others have just one. We are at one end, the landlord and his wife (Jacobo and Maria Luisa) are at the other on the bottom floors. Diana and her husband and their roommate live above us. That's their patio above our cochera.
Most places here, including ours, have no water heater, no furnace and the whole house runs on one breaker. Water for our shower is heated by a coil that runs into the shower head. This isn't our shower, but it shows the same thing and the wire running directly into the shower head. Took some getting used to but it works great!!
Here's a look at our patio, where we have breakfast, rest, read, visit and pray, as well as garden and do laundry:
Our living room:
Our kitchen:
Our bedroom. Notice no blankets! We've already lost the quilt, which we needed when we first moved here, then the blanket, and now we are down to just the sheets!
Our guest room:
A view of La Cruz from the air:
This is a look up and down our street. In the "down" view, that's the rest of the apartment building on the left and the church on the right. In the "up" view, that's Hotel JR on the right:
Plaza La Cruz is at our end of town:
The municipal plaza at the other end (also known as Miguel Hidalgo Plaza). The Catholic church is located on the plaza. This large plaza is where most stuff happens in town. We walk up here every day and get an "agua fresca" of some kind and people watch and visit.
The municipal building is across the street from municipal plaza and the interior is an open courtyard design, very pretty. There's even a large mural in the stairwell, but it's too dark and too big to get a picture:
A couple of the side streets, the second one shows Rin Rin Pizza, the largest pizza joint in town. Two of our neighbors, Diana and Luis Francisco work here. But we get our pizza from Felix, across from Hotel JR, MUCH better pizza and one block from home!
This tree trunk looks like an elephant foot to me, and it marks where one of the larger ferreterias is in town...big hardware store. They put a lot of their merchandise out on the sidewalk, sometimes you have to squeeze by. It's not Home Depot, but it's big for here.
The La Cruz Post Office:
Uncrowded beach at Playa Ceuta, 10 minutes from the house. You won't find one like this in Mazatlan!!
Fishers at Playa Ceuta:
Samples of shells from Playa Ceuta:
That's the tour...thanks for asking!
Have a blessed day!
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