Yes, it's true. We just can't stay away. And it didn't take much encouragement to get me to start up this blog again, so here goes.
Our plan this year is very similar to last year. We will spend the first month in Pescadero at Las Palmas Tropicales with the raging Pacific and the insatiable surfers. New to us this year will be a rental car for the first 24 hours. With the nearest grocery store being 3 miles round trip from our casita, Bruce had the brilliant idea of renting a car just long enough to get us from the airport to Sorianos and on to our casita in Pescadero. At Sorianos in Cabo (a mega store, kind of like a Mexican Super Walmart) we will pick up heavier groceries.....like Tequilla, grapefruit, dried beans, brown rice, cooking oil, etc. before driving to our casita. The next morning we will head north, hoping to stop at a hidden beach we've never felt brave enough to hunt for afoot and see what that is like before returning the car at a drop off point in Todos Santos. Todos Santos, just a 15 min bus ride from Pescadero, is a favorite tourist destination and home of the famous (and expensive) Hotel California. Friends Bob and Jenny from Colorado will join us in Pescadero mid-February for a week or so.
After our Pescadero stay we have four uncommitted days before heading south to Cabo Pulmo, a little town that is totally "off the grid," and home to a magnificent National Park. Those four days should give us time to visit La Paz and to look up friends Vince and Cindy who have been storing our snorkel gear for us before we head down the Gulf coast to Cabo Pulmo. We enjoyed our time in Cabo Pulmo last year and have the same casita reserved for a week. We expect to spend plenty of time sunning and watching fish. The week immediately following our week in Cabo Pulmo will be spent at Lorna's new rental back in El Sargento, north of Cabo Pulmo and a mile from Vince and Cindy. The last week before we fly home is also open....no plans at this point as to where we will be.
We are curious to see how the hurricane treated friends, neighbors and businesses in Baja. We wonder if Fidel will have his fruit stand up again. We heard that the Sand Bar where we watched the Super Bowl last year was totally destroyed as was the surf hotel where we stayed one year with Bruce's sister, Jan and her family. And we wonder if any friends we made last year will be returning. It would be fun to see our "sunset mates " Steve and Mary again, to watch Vigil Dog and to visit the friendly Canadians who bought Gary's place where we first stayed in Pescadero. And of course, it will be fun to step out on the porch for morning coffee in t-shirts and shorts, Baja style.
