12 Benedictis 1960 Dec 29 From San Blas, Nayarit, to Mazatlan, Sinaloa. From this side we went straight to the junction of Mex 15-26. Here we got cooks and I got in front. Hardy has been slingshooting animals along the road and it sounded like fun so I got out my slug shot and joined him. It is lots of fun, and there are a lot ot sore cows between San Blas and Mazatlan. We stopped in a large town about 30 miles out of Mazatlan and got bread. In Mazatlan we found Teddy had got no money - John lost all our Traveler's checks - because of a mistake on the form. Todd has been here since 3 PM, and they got about 50 bottle stars for Elvey. We camped on the side walk outside of Mazatlan near the beach. On the way to Mazatlan it started to rain, and we got an Agalychnis and a Bufo marinus on the roads and missed a leopard frog. Nate Cohen is flying into the states tomorrow. It looks like it might Dec 30 rain tonight. It rained to night, but not too hard. Everything got damp. My air mattress finally went out completely, and the sidewalk is hard. I didn't sleep much. Early in the morning I got in to the cab of the truck. Genev and Elvey have been bickering constantly for the last two or three days. About 8:30 it began to rain really hard. We waited for a while in Mazatlan for some money. I hope we will