Five days of Christmas
steph After scuttling around a bit, I wanted to get some work done in a place with a kitchen and a desk. We found an adorable “bungalow” for rent in Barra…
A month to the mainland
Whenever people asked us about our route plans for this trip, we always started by saying, “We’re going to drive down Baja to La Paz and then take the ferry…
The Code of the Road
When Juan and I came to Baja last summer, we had some minor troubles with the pony. We got stuck in sand a few times, and we also had a…
Friendly faces
First things first: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPS! I don’t know how old my dad is today, but it doesn’t matter because he is as much as an intrepid traveller and photographer…
Paz en La Paz
We’re just two weeks into our trip now but we’ve covered more than 1,450 miles (much more than the 1200 km I’d randomly guessed the other day) since leaving San…
Dog Day Afternoons
We’re officially on the new-to-me part of our trip, nine days in, because we’re now past Loreto, the farthest south in Baja I’d been before (last year with Juan). We’d…
To the Sea
Here’s Juan and Milo’s photo shoot at Punta Baja, a jutting peninsula that’s a rocky drive from El Rosario. After leaving El Rosario, we crossed Parallelo 28 into Baja California…
No-man’s land
We’re now safely in our third night in Baja, after a failed attempt to treat ourselves to a night at the Baja Cactus, this awesome hotel in El Rosario that…
Goodbye to All That
We left San Francisco today. This is what the last two weeks have looked like. Cleaning out the apartment, I ate a can of tuna on the exact date of…
send-off
Yesterday we had our Westy community send-off at Ocean Beach. There were two blue Westies, FOUR maroon ones, two brown ones, a cream-colored one, and several white ones. Me in…