Entering Blaja
After only single night in heaven, we spent a whole work-week in Loreto in the tiniest of RV parks, packed in like sardines, and dreaming of getting back out of town and too the beaches.
This town of 14,000 souls just wreaked of most things you want to get away from when living/traveling in a van. Still, we did what we could to stay happy, mainly by going into the historic town to each just about every meal which consisted of 100% mediocre foods. We are clearly in touristy Baja now… “Blaja” if you ask me.
The RV park would have fit a half dozen rigs in the USA, but here they packed in 20+. Many of the larger rigs could not even open their awnings it was so tightly packed. And if you were unlucky enough to have a slide-out, you were assured to be near-touching the slide-out of your neighbor. Not what I had in mind for Baja camping.
Still, on the final night a glimmer of good times came to town. Carnival was the happening thing through out Mexico, and on Friday night Loreto had their little version of it and it was cute as heck. Just like the county fairs from my childhood, and the best tacos I have had in all of Baja.
And that was it, Loreto’s memory will be of that small carnival and the best tacos in the world.
Wow, I’ve never seen Rivera del Mar that packed! When we were there a couple times last winter, there were 1/2 as many rigs. We used TripAdvisor for restaurant reviews and found a couple really good ones– El Rey for tacos, and one down the street (before the plaza). But if you’re headed to La Paz soon, the absolute BEST fish tacos in Baja are on a corner about 2 blocks behind the Cathedral, and some decent beach boondocking is available at Tecolote northeast of town.
We did eat out a lot, but El Ray’s was not open each time we tried to go there.
Do you recall if there was cell out there at Tecolote? We are hoping to stay there instead of the RV park on the highway. Either way we have to drive in to see the sights, so may as well stay on a beach right?