Arriving at La Paz Tuesday

Our day started at 5:00 Tuesday. Mexico does not allow flight at night unless the airplane is operating on an instrument flight plan. Our original plan was to depart Yuma 15 minutes before sunrise and to cross the border at sunrise. At 5:30, Rick called the FAA on some paperwork that we were waiting on. They told him that they were still working on it and to call back in several hours. Not wanting to waste any time, we went to the airport to ensure that everything else was ready so we could depart as soon as the paperwork arrived. We received the new aircraft documents by fax and were off the ground by 7:20. This was 10 minutes before the airport was scheduled to close for a half hour. After a three and a half hour flight, we cleared customs at Loreto. We then waited about 20 minutes until they could find the immigration official who would give us our tourist visas.  It was then a short one and a half hour flight to La Paz. While approaching the airport, a thunderstorm was building to the south. Within an hour of landing, the thunderstorm had reached maturity and had moved over La Paz. Had the documents arrived ten minutes later, we would have had to wait to depart until the Yuma airport reopened. We would have then arrived at La Paz at almost the same time as the thunderstorm. We arrived just in time. To God be the glory! Due to the heavy rains brought by the storm, the road to town is closed and our internet connection is down. We made it to Campestre Maranatha just in time. Brad and I will be staying and working at the camp until next Tuesday when we leave for the mountains. I will post this as soon as the internet connection is working again.

Crossing the border

The Sea of Cortez

Loreto airport

A shrimp farm north of La Paz

The thunderstorm

The entrance to Camp Maranatha