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.