The last boy hanging on the side of our car, selling us on a tour of the park, directed us to the the parking for our hostel just off the dirt road, above the hostel, in a large concrete area backed by cinder blocks and murals.  I grabbed our gigantic duffel bag we always bring... Continue Reading →

Leaving Coban was a pretty now-normal affair:  get up a little too late, feed and pee/poo Ted, wrangle Nina into some real clothes, deal with a meltdown before a hotel breakfast, pack the car whilst YouTube Kids entertains the young one, hit the road before noon, navigate out of the city trying not to run... Continue Reading →

A surfer at Cuatros Casas told us he recently drove down to Baja with his family and camped at Bahia Conception and they had a simply amazing time.  He described how to find the secluded camp site and palapas where they stayed.   We decided to take his recommendation and head there to get a... Continue Reading →

Another big day on the road chasing the sun got us to Santa Rosaliíta at sundown where a stop at Jessy (the name of the tiny market) provided us with some cold beer and some rough suggestion of where to camp for the evening, just north of the seemingly abandoned airport project. We drove around... Continue Reading →

San Quintín is an unexciting town, but Hotel Jardines Baja provided a nice little oasis at a reasonable price to get cleaned up and reorganized for the following week of camping.  It is very dog friendly, in fact most of the guests’ dogs were walking around without a leash and no one seemed to care.... Continue Reading →

Cuatros Casas is a bare bones hostel with $5 US per person camping, $50 US/night for a private room for two (I think the dog and the kid were each $10 more because we paid $70/night), but little in the way of amenities (no hot water, no towels, mildewed smell throughout everything). There’s a questionable... Continue Reading →

After a few stops looking for CETO on a recommendation as a place to stay, and then an RV park which was not very appealing, we found campground at Playa Bonito called Conchas del Mar and for $12 we passed the entrance after the friendly family that runs the place lowered the drawn chain that... Continue Reading →

We left Tuscon a little after noontime, on a mission.  We’d had to wait for the mailman to bring the last of the Amazon order before we could depart.  We were still riding low, but hoped that as we started consuming stuff our load would lighten and we wouldn’t blow the shocks too early in... Continue Reading →

Committing to Go and Starting our Trip

A key enabler for this trip was renting our home in San Francisco, so we spent a good portion of our energy packing up all of our personal effects into a POD, remodeled an old pantry, cleaned out my art studio, and painted.  We’d done quite a bit of research about the trip but not much in the way of actual planning, when  we got a call from our agent. We had renters!  Starting Tuesday. It was Sunday.