We’d become pretty agitated about the truck’s lack of organization.  Few things had a designated place, and those that did were not in it.  Unpacking and re-packing was taking way too long and involved hauling out way too many bags and bins and/or living without things that were stashed away in an inconvenient place.  It... Continue Reading →

I’d spent some of my sleepless night on the beach of San Francisco researching where we should go next.   From the start we’d wanted to get to the Monarch Butterfly Preserve outside of Mexico City.  If you work backwards from there to San Francisco, you will see Tequila.  Why not make a stop in... Continue Reading →

San Pancho is just a bit north of Sayulita, where we’ve been (Dmitri twice, me and Nina once).  It’s supposedly what Sayulita was 10 years ago - laid back, good surfing, small town.   As we were driving, we were trying to make a reservation at a dog-friendly place and were shocked to find that... Continue Reading →

We’d read that San Blas is beautiful but buggy (sand flies/no-see-ums and mosquitos) and we found all that to be true.  San Blas is in a malaria zone, so we’d started our malaria meds a few days earlier.  Nina’s a trooper and took her meds crushed up in some honey.  I tasted the same honey... Continue Reading →

We had a second quick stay at B&B Casa Juarez on our stop back in La Paz to get the truck window replaced.  The parts actually did arrive on that Monday, 12 days after they were ordered.   After getting the window replaced and the car washed (Nina was bitter because she’d come to enjoy... Continue Reading →

We arrived back from Tijuana mostly on time, grabbed our truck from B&B Casa Juarez and delivered a decent bottle of wine from the duty free store to our most gracious host Silvana.  Then we picked Ted up, and he TALKED to us when he saw us - straight up TALKED - and for a while... Continue Reading →

A super pricey but OH-SO-CONVENIENT bridge across the border has been built from the TJ airport to San Diego.   This had us across the border in literally no time after landing.  We hopped in an Uber and made our way to the shopping center containing the Costco our meds were at and a Petco... Continue Reading →

We knew it would be a stretch to make it all the way to La Paz before dark so we were prepared to stay the night in Ciudad Constitucion, the city before La Paz.  Along the way we had a long lunch in Loreto, a cute town full of white people.  Dmitri was responsible for... 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 →