Pictures of Rosarito

It's hard to get a feel for this one, but this is a house in the landfill community. All around the Tijuana Landfill a community has sprung up. A lot of the people who live here make their living by collecting things for recycling at the city dump. The folks have built homes, largely out of recycled material, in the area surrounding the landfill. During Christmas, YUGO brings christmas shoeboxes to the children here.






This is a picthure of the graveyard around the dump. A lot of the sites are encased in concrete to avoid getting washed away in the rainy season. There were quite a number of crosses that had been washed out and were now down or almost on the ground. A large amount of the graves are small, like they were for kids.







This is another one of the homes in the dump community.













Here are som pics of places we see regularly in Rosarito. It is a touristy area, mostly locals from Southern California coming to do stupid things in a foreign country. So it is has that aspect to it as wel as the area of business for the local residents as well.


This is in a plaza area. Michoacana is a state in S. Mexico apparantly famous for helados- cold snacks. These shops will sell ice cream, juice (rice juice, tamarind juice amonth others) and a frozen popsicle unlik eany other you've ever had. Literally frozen fruit on a stick. mmmmmm...


This is our favourite Tamale Shop in the same plaza as the Michoacan place. A Tamale is a dish made with masa dough (kinda like corn flour dough) stuffed with either pineapples, beef and chile peppers, chicken, potatoe and salsa, pork and chile peppers or beef and cheese.
Very good, very filling. Usually about $1.30 a piece and one is usually enough. Sometimes we'll split a pineapple too.






This is a typical street scene in DowntownRosarito. This in particular is a pharmacy. There are dozens here catering to Americans. It is much cheaper than the US and a prescription is not necessary.









This is just a Bathroom sign in the plaza. It is free but it costs 3 pesos (30 cents) for a few pieces of toilet paper and a paper towel.











This is a picture of an abbarrotes (corner store) and a taco stand. The rule of thumb here for eating out is, if it has plumbing, it's probably ok. If No plumbing? Where do they wash their hands? Avoid places without a visible sink.









This is another pic of a food stand- "Mariscos" is seafood. So you'll likely get fish tacos (like fish and chip breaded fish in a taco with cabbage, salsa, mayo-type sauce and lime) Marlin tacos or shrimp tacos.













This is a key-cutting stand. these are all over the place. You can get a key cut for a buck. Some have emergency locksmithing too- 24 hours a day.










This is the "Market on Wheels" . There are 4 of these within a 10 minute drive of us. They are open on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Basically a place to by used things, new things, basic groceries, meat, fish, tacos ,pizza, churros, tacos, pigs head, deep fried pig skin (chicharron). Mostly it seems to be a place to gather together and do business, visit, eat and enjoy. The pictures don't do it justice, you need to see, smell and hear the place to get the full effect!



This is a flower vendor in the market. You can get pretty inexpensive plants here for your house or garden.











We see this sight regularly. It is the "road" into Lomas san Antonio- the colonia where the church is we are working with. It is a fairly poor place, though there is evidence of lots of contruction going on as people add on to their houses bit by bit as they have money.








And this is the newest member of the family. For security issues, it's pretty important to have a dog here. This guy picked us to be his pack before we left the old house and seems to fit in well here, despite his incessant flea infestation. Here he is chewing on part of a seatbelt he found near our landlord broken down car which lives with us in our yard.






This is the boys favourite tree in our yard. I'm not sure if you will be able to see it, but it looks like it is several trunks interwoven with each other.

cool.








Here are those boys, gathering aorund their favourite cactus. It has no thorns, unlike most everything else around here.



Thanks for sticking around this long!!







Until Next time,

Mike, Shar and boys