Back to El Centro

Our day yesterday was pretty much dictated by our needs. Josie discovered that she needed a refill on one of her prescriptions plus some more vtamins and I discovered that we needed to have a form notorized for the DMV in Florida before we could transfer the registration on our final vehicle ( the Jeep) to Florida. These things can only be done in El Centro since that is the closest Walgreen's, Costco and the closest Bank of America where we can get the Notary for free.

We first went to the Bank of America and discovered that they will only notorize a bank related document. Laws in California forbid notorizing any other kind of document. That's a new discovery. We always had our papers notorized at the bank in Arizona - and also Washington where we lived before. Oh, well. The gentleman in the bank located a public notary for us and we then went there where we had the form notorized - for $10. What a scam!

We then went to Walgreen's and had another minor setback. The prescription that Josie called in to the pharmacy wasn't transferred from the previous location. That was going to take at least an hour so we told them we would return. That meant that we could probably go to Costco and get Josie's vitamins and a bite to eat. We like Costco's inexpensive menu at the snack bar and we each had a hot dog combo (including drink) that came to just over $3 with tax. Good value. We both were reminded while eating that El Centro is probably 90% Mexican since everybody sitting around us was speaking Spanish and there were lots of people there. This is not a town that we could live in although it's not a dirty place. Before leaving Costco I saw that they had put out their Christmas fruitcake. Of course, I had to buy one of those. They are fabulous! Finally, we went back to Walgreen's and finished our business for the day.

That about rounded out the day with the unscheduled trip to El Centro. Today is a laundry day and possibly a short trip to a place we haven't been. Later...