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If you found this blog via a link from a cruising site ~ we did cruise Mexico on our Ocean 49 cat for a season. See the first text box on the right for links to our preparations, trip down Baja, life in Mexico, cruising and trip back up to SoCal. Unfortunately we are back to the grind in the USA...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Baja Road Trip Photos

Breakfast stop at Mama Espinosa's ~ great as always!
And many memories of prior visits...
Including one time with my parents when I was about 10!A little bit of Dad is here near the sign...

Always interesting on the road!








My home-made wine glass...
There are many, many uses for water bottles ~ recycling is good.Dinner at Malarrimo and Jim was happy to find not just one, but two Sierra Nevada bottles!The fountain at Malarrimo where a little more of my Dad is.The beautiful mission at San Ignacio.Our new favorite breakfast place in San Ignacio.



Great omeletes!





Then the find of the day, Casa Leree!With it's beautiful courtyard and garden.On the back gate: "Until this point (in your life), the mill (has ground your fate). (Now) each one to his own road." The lake and volcano at San Ignacio.Our second find of the day ~ the almost completed new eco-tourist hotel overlooking the volcanos.












And then the dreaded grade from hell...
Which never looks quite as bad in photos as it does in real life...Hora feliz at Las Casistas in Santa Rosalia.We love the room decor and view!












Thunderheads forming out over the Sea.And the incredible "hot dog exquisitos"!Which are now called "hot dog chayuta" or "chayulta" or some name, but it will always be "exquisitos" to us and all the cruisers!

The beautiful church at Santa Rosalia, designed by Gustav Eiffel.










The town square where we were treated to ballet folklorico and music!One of the many, many scrap metal piled high trucks we saw heading North.These are all the old vehicles we used to see squished in the desert!

Getting close to Puerto Escondido.And what we found on our deck when we returned to the boat!He was a little dried out, but I tossed him back into the water just in case...

Another great trip down Baja!

4 comments:

Margarita Mirasol said...

Great pics. Love road trip photos. Wish I'd been able to blog all my road trip photos from last year but I was doing it 'undercover'.

Jim and Heather on Meerkat said...

We love road trips! So post your road trip pics now, so the rest of us can enjoy them... We won't tell anyone you were undercover...

Suzie said...

Road Trips with Jim and Heather are the best! I speak from Experience. Ah, but our trip was fun! We did acquire a bit of tequila didn't we? And what was that, about 2 or 3 years ago?????????

Jim and Heather on Meerkat said...

Yeah, Suz and we were 21 years old at the time too! Ha ha ha! Remember how long it took Jim & Kirby to taste and buy the tequila? It was hours... Then it took another couple of hours for them to split it into 2 containers... And you said something about how they were doing it and Kirby said, "You always have to say something." So then you said, "Something." I think I have that on video...
What fun... Wanna do it again?