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matcrazy1 Says: First it's a name of a border city and departament in... southern Peru close to Chile. Have you ever been there? I would like, look: click here or here Btw what does it mean "tacna" in Spanish? Nothing?But there is another Tacna in southern Arizona. I just checked in the net...
Basque Etchea: Basque food? What's that?
matcrazy1 Says: Basque food is a food which derives from Basque country. Where is it? In Europe, at the western end of the Pyrenees on the Bay of Biscay in Spain nowadays.What's Basque food? As I know lamb, fish, meat (grilled), olive oil are the main ingredients. Much more (including...
Basque Etchea: Desserts and salads
matcrazy1 Says: There are not many desserts and salads to choose from in Basque Etchea restaurant:Assorted fruit pies - $1.95French Cream Cheese Cake - $2.95Ice cream: one scoop $1.05, two scoops $1.75Pie a la mode - $2.50Chef salad - small $3.75, large $4.75All beef chef salad - $5.25.Add...
Motel room :-): Are you kidding?
matcrazy1 Says: There is no nightlife in Tacna, I am sure about it.But if you stay for a night in Chaparral Motel I have a few ideas:- there is beer/wine in Food Mart in Chevron gas station just next to the motel (do they sell candles?),- the southern sky has millions of stars,- hmmm......
matcrazy1 Says: You can get to Tacna by a motorcycle instead of a car. Almost no rains there and warm or hot days all the year. To be honest I met only these two motorcycle on my picture while I drove around Southern Arizona. Why don't they drive motorcycles? Do they need more luxury (RV)...
matcrazy1 Says: Don't worry - there are NO traffic jams in Tacna, there are no traffic lights (STOP signs instead), there are no cars driving around. If you are lucky you can find a local pickup truck or some crazy visitors driving around devil knows what for :-).
Cheap Arizona or expensive California?
matcrazy1 Says: A gas at Chevron station in Tacna was less expensive than in California (5-10%). It costed $1.8 - $2.0 per gallon wheras it went always over $2 in Southern California that time (April 2003). Isn't it strange? As I know California in contrast to Arizona was a producer of oil...
matcrazy1 Says: It seems that nobody lives in Takna. Streets are empty - no walking people (or dogs :-), one pickup truck every maybe 10 minutes. What a silence! Except close to I-8.I saw only two older guys in Basque Ethea restaurant. Locals, visitors or maybe ghosts? I don't know.
matcrazy1 Says: It seems that they like to grow thujas (thuyas) in Tacna and southern Arizona at all.Look at my picture please - aren't there thujas trees there?Hehe, it remains me Greece and southern Italy especially :-).
matcrazy1 Says: Difficult to give straight reply - there are various opinions on this matter. It's not a sterile area but I can say: yes it's clean although a little neglected - no garbages or wastes neither along highways nor in other places I stopped. There were no flies or other "dirty...
matcrazy1 Says: Travelling in many countries I noticed various customs referring to serving water to drink in a restaurant.There are many possibilities:1. they serve a glass (pot) of drinking water free to each customer,2. they do it when you ask,3. they give you a glass of drinking (tap)...
matcrazy1 Says: Whenever you look for food, gas and/or eating while driving in the USA - look up to find commercials. There are a lot of commercials "in sky" = on tall poles in the USA. In Tacna as well although only two (of Chevron gas station and Chaparral Motel) - just to be well seen...
They don't wash your car windscreens
matcrazy1 Says: Gas stations in Arizona and that one by Chevron in Tacna are self service, fully self service I mean.So, do not expect somebody from a gas station employees to wash your car windscreen while you are fueling. It works that way in some (most?) European countries as well. In...
Broad way instead of Broadway :-)
matcrazy1 Says: They used to built very wide streets in small southern Arizonian desert towns including Tacna. Look at my picture: there is a quite wide paved highway in the middle. There are broad unpaved spaces on both sides (schoulders and/or parking lots?), used by cars - there are no...
matcrazy1 Says: I never forget my first pumping a gas in the USA. I did what I used to do in Europe: I simply started to pump a gas but it didn't work. Once again - nothing, back and again - nothing. Supreme instead of Plus - the same. What was going on? PREPAY, PREPAY you sucker!My...
matcrazy1 Says: I saw the traffic signs with explanation that speed is controlled by an aircraft. But please, do NOT look for planes while you are driving too fast especially on bends, simply don't drive over the speed limit. Btw I have never seen/heard any plane driving from Yuma via Tacna...
matcrazy1 Says: Tacna is one of the hottest places in the USA in summer, or more exactly from May to October. In summer high temperatures are usually over 100F = 38C (sometimes even 110F = 43C), low over 70F (21C). More: Weather Station in TacnaCheck the 10-day forecast for Yuma (46 miles =...
Everything against heat and sun!
matcrazy1 Says: No bags in hot summer except one for your camera, good (safe) pockets (or comfortable belt) instead. Small city rucksack for warm winter. Light clothes (shorts, T-shirts, better too large :-) made of natural materials (cotton) for warm/hot days all year...
matcrazy1 Says: I drove I-8 from Yuma to Tacna by a freeway I-8: two lanes in each direction and few cars in April's midday. Approx. 20 miles (32 km) east of Yuma the freeway leaves Yuma Valley and passes mountain range called Gila Mountains (Telegraph Pass ) to enter next, more vast Mohawk...
matcrazy1 Says: Telegraph Pass elevation is only 767 ft (233 m). Not high altitude but they had to cut a lot of beautiful rocks to build the freeway. Hmm... what to do, thanks it I could travel fast, safe and admire beautiful views :-).
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There are not many desserts and salads to choose from in Basque Etchea restaurant:Assorted fruit pies - $1.95French Cream Cheese Cake - $2.95Ice cream: one...
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