El dorado,
Mexico
Thursday, April 17, 2008
We got our muffler replaced in los mochis for $35 and headed down the coast to el dorado. lindsey got a speeding ticket for doing 80km in a 60km zone (Sometimes the speed limit posts are hard to see and change suddenly here) it was a bit frantic to sort out what was going on as the police officer spoke very quickly and with a thick accent making him hard to understand. we thought he was going to take lindsey's drivers licence and registration at first but she said she would follow him to the staton and he gave it back. he then started saying something about how we wouldn't have to pay any money here or in town and asked for something else instead. we had no idea what it was he wanted but eventually he asked for $5 and let us go.
that night on the beach in el dorado i felt a bit unnerved as we were very isolated and miles from anywhere and people kept coming for short periods. we imagined intimate encounters and dodgy drug deals and tried to sleep.
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Speed demon
Lindsey Sprigens, speeding abroad!! Ill have you know Im still the only Sprigens not to have points- something I still remind mum whenever she says Im going too fast!!