The heat wave continues. It hit 112F yesterday. It was the last day of my brother-in-laws vacation. We decided to take a ride across Las Vegas to visit Fry’s Electronics. We needed a monitor.

Fry’s is huge. The sales force is very aggressive to the point of pestering. When you checkout with your items it has the feeling of being released from jail. Deals can be had but you have to shop carefully. For example we recently purchased a 500 GB standalone hard drive at Sam’s Club for $99.00. The same drive was $139.00 at Fry’s; a full 40% higher.

There is a shopping center next to Fry’s that is top drawer – most of the major fine department type stores are there – really impressive. But the best shop was last.

We had a craving for a fish barbeque at the house. Richard (my brother-in-law) took us to Seafood City Market – oh my gosh!

If there is any disappointment in Xalapa-Coatepec-Xico it is the lack of fresh fish. Curiously the fish fillets we bought at Seafood City all came wild from Mexico .

Years ago I used to fish off of Mazatlan for sail fish and yellowtail. At that time yellowtail was my hands down favorite eating fish. Since that time it has always been hard for me to buy any yellowtail. The Las Vegas fish market not only had yellowtail steaks but whole fish as well.

The store had banana tree leaves which we thought was funny since they are all over our part of Mexico for the grabbing. The Seafood City Market is run by a Philippine family – apparently Philippinos have quite a presence in the Las Vegas area.

We bought sesame oil and some hard to find delectable items as well as tuna and yellowtail steaks. Wow they were excellent tasting. I relived my Mazatlan fishing experiences – it was terrific. There is something to be said for big cities now and again – access to fine exotic foods is certainly one of them.

I also ordered the clutch kit for the BIG white truck. We will have it installed in Mexico by our local master mechanic.

We are checking off things on our punch list in the United States slowly but surely. Now if we just have enough room in our Dodge car to get all our purchases back to New Mexico. Stay Tuned!