Headed For The Mainland

It has almost a full week in Cabo. We can hardly believe it. We have had an incredible relaxing and enjoyable time down here, filled with swimming and hanging in the bay at one of the local restuarants. Living the good life.

We are excited to back on the road. We are headed to the La Paz area tonight and then across the Sea of Cortez tomorrow evening. That should interesting, it is about a 12 hour ride. We are worried about Gideon, so you guys could pray for him, if that is alright to pray for a dog. I am pretty sure God loves dogs, especially Wiemeraners.

Hopefully all goes well and we will catch up in Mazatalan!

Hola From Cabo

Sorry we haven't posted a blog for some time. It has been an adventurous couple of days both in the La Paz area and the journey even futher south to Cabo San Lucas. Just a little re-cap so everyone is up to date.

La Paz is a nice town. They have a beautiful boardwalk which runs almost the entire length of the town. However there is only one RV park left, and it is located about 5 miles north of town. The park itself is actually a Christian mission of many sorts; a school, an orphange, a rescue, and a camp. People were getting baptized right out in front or our door. Plus the camp owners also have a wiemaranier, so you know that they're awesome.

Getting into and around town in an RV can be tricky, especially when the streets are poorly marked. So, we had to take the bus into town (about an hour ride). The first day in town we must haved walked about 10 miles in search of our ferry tickets, we were tired, but not to tired to enjoy some cold cervazas on the water front. As it turns out even after all our efforts we still didn't have our tickets, and the next day being Sunday, everything was closed. We were stuck until Monday. No worries, we just hopped back on the bus on Sunday to watch the Steelers loose. The town was super quiet, I think me yelling at the TV was the only noise to be heard for blocks!

Monday morning we were determined to get our ferry tickets. After an all day experience between three different locations, we are set to head to the main land next Tuesday.

A short drive south of La Paz and we entered Todos Santos, a quiet place that was run down and had little to offer. Cabo was our only option, and even it has limited camping. We found a spot, by the GRACE of GOD, hidden back off some side streets that is as good as any dirt lot can be, but it is safe and we have A/C!

We took are bikes into town today. Cabo has a great bay area. We rode past countless million dollar yauts to the place with the cheapest beers. It was great to be in the town and plan to spend at least one more day there. Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but after this week, we are sure that it will be exciting.

Unbearable Heat From Loreto

We move further down the Baja, jumping from the Pacific Ocean over to the Sea of Cortez, and then back. We had planned an early departure from Guerro Negro, but ran into our first traveling Gringos. I nice couple who have been traveling/camping the Baja for about six months. It just so happens that they live in Tucson during the winter. Small world. They were well experienced and had lots to offer. We knew it was going to be a long day of driving, since every report we had seen or heard spoke of the damage of the recent hurricane. Small gems like San Ignacio were blocked to do damaged roads. The town of Santa Rosalia had damage and debris scattered along the beach from end to end. South of that, a small town of Mulege located down on the river bed look as if nothing survived. The Power of Nature! Back on the sea, the road passes some beautiful bays. Some of the most beautiful sights yet. They allow beach camping in Mexico, and as much as we desired to be in our own private cyrstal clear bay for the night, the roads and beach access were sketchy at best. We saw one man, a gringo and most likely a sailor, who was clearly viewing his beach "house" (a trailer with a hut over it) for the first time since. The storm had destoyed his home.

So our only choice was to drive all the way to Loreto, over a seven hour drive. It is only about 225 miles, but at 40mph it can drain on you. We searched and found our spot. Thankfully we have had little hassle finding our campsites so far. Loreto is HOT. Coming from and living in Tucson, we think we know hot, but we have never experienced heat like this. We just sit and sweat. It is a decent town, the first Mission was founded hear back in the mid 1600's, so our first true history experience. We decided to stay for two nights. The water is ok, but it is really nice having a place to swim everyday. We are enjoying that. Off to La Paz tomorrow, hopefully for some beach front property.

Guerrero Negro

Todays drive was not bad at all, I would go so far as to call it good! We are in a town called Guerreo Negro which means "Black Warrior", pretty cool name! This is our first night not on the water:( but we are in the town, which is pretty nice!
Here, In the early part of the year, Grey Whales migrate through and it's supposed to be really awesome! The town is also famous for their "salt flats", they basically farm salt here and it is distribted all over the world! They are pretty neat looking.
Not sure where we will be tomorrow yet, but there are a few good options:)

Day 6, from Bahia De Los Angeles

After San Filipe, our next stop was The Buffadora (second pic.), Just south of Ensenada. The Buffadora means "The Blowhole" and is called that Because there is a point where the sea meets the land and water very high shots into the air, kind of like it does in a whale's blowhole. We had an awesome spot on the beach that night too.

On Sunday we headed to San Quintin (first pic.). The town itself is not that nice but we drove about 5 miles west to a small fishing village in a bay. It took a half hour to go that 5 miles Because it was a dirt road but it was well worth it to be on the water:)

Today was our hardest and longest driving day so far: (We drove all day to Bahia De Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez. It was a bit of a let down to arrive in such a small town and run down after a hard day. On the bright side we have power and are able to run A / C (which is awesome because it's 100 degrees with high humidity). The sea is very warm, we can see it from our spot and the people are friendly:)

Tomorrow will be another hard day in the IRV (I think we have our fare share of those coming up in this next few days) as we travel to the Black Warrior. The couple of people we spoke to mentioned here that it had little to offer.

We are looking forward to arriving in La Paz, it promises to have plenty to offer!

First stop; San Filipe

We began our adventure Wed. evening and spent the night in Yuma, AZ:( In the morning we headed straight for Mexico.

We are in San Filipe! We found the best spot in town to park the IRV, right on the Sea of Cortez. The view from our bedroon is the ocean and beach:) It's awesome! The ocean is so warm but, it's REALLY HOT here!

There is a small store only steps away from our IRV when we even got to watch the Steelers game last night. GO STEELERS!

We will head out tomorrow to Ensenada! We'll have to backtrack a bit to get there but, it seems like an awesome town, plus the roads are best.

Miss you all! We will keep you posted in the next few days. Buenos Dias!