Tuesday, take off Day

Off to a rough start, went to put the blocks away on Rogers camper, and there was dog food everywhere! Some mouse had eatten holes in 4 different bags of dog food that were in the pickup bed. We don't know whether the little guy is still Hitch Hiking with us! Then the handheld radio would not charge, but worked that out.
 Ermila made the mistake of calling her home for messages once we reached San Luis RC Sonora. Worst thing! Bank called to say that Al's debit card had been compromised during Christmas Holiday and new bank card was at their home. Al said no way was he crossing the border at San Luis to get his ****!!! card that the bank wanted him to use because the old one was was cancelled. They would've been in the border crossing line for a couple of hours and would've had to give up all their meat, fruits and booze. Finally got everything resolved by phone and started off after a wasted hour.
We were then arriving in Sonyota at 3 pm, and there go the blue/red lights behind Jerry and Carol. Sure enough, he had radar and said we were doing 68 km (40mph) in a 25mph zone. But none of us in either car saw signs. Of course, he said he could reduce the fine from 1200 pesos (100 dollars) to 600 pesos. He took 500 pesos, and off we went again.
  Got out of Sonoyta and got to San Emeterio 17 miles south of Sonoyta which is Inspection check station. Everything is fine except Al & Ermila were secondary. They wanted to check their RV Camper but then notice that Ermila had been speaking on a marine portable radio and that threw up red flags. Immigration officer wanted to know why they were using that type of radio. She tried to explain to them that we were traveling as a group and that was the means of communication. The cell phones don't work in this area. He inspected their RV Camper and said everything was fine and then returned to the truck and wanted to inspect the radio. Although, they both spoke in Spanish he finally said to Ermila that all the people traveling with contraband and drug cartels use those radios for communication. She assured him that we were not doing anything illegal and just enjoying Mexico and communicating with their traveling companions.
  At 5:15 pm we arrived at Caborca had dinner and are staying at the Casa Blanca Hotel with RV Hookups. It's nice area except it borders Mexico Highway 2 and lots of traffic. A very eventful first day.