Finding more to explore

When we first decided to come back to Baja, we thought we would just pay for a month or two to stay in our favorite town in Baja, in an extremely picturesque campground – Don Chano’s Campground. From there we would venture out for the weekends, and return for the four-day work week. It took a few weeks to get all the way down, and when we did we found the campground had expanded, got more expensive (as has everything it seems), and got a whole lot more crowded. Once again, it holds true that returning to a location is never as good as the first time around (as pictured below).

Don’t get me wrong, it is still a great place, just not what we were expecting from a home-base during our stay. There are tons of other places we can explore in Baja, so we have been. For example our home these past few days; just another half-mile down the road from Don Chano’s is a beach on the Sea of Cortez. On that beach is a few palapas, a lighthouse, and a couple tiny restaurants. It is here we moved too to get a little more open space and the sounds of the waves knocking at our door. And, so far it appears to be a free-camping location, saving us 200 pesos a night (that is a lot of tacos my friend).

The weather has not been picture perfect the past few days. We even got what passes for rain down here in Baja – just a few drops. The clouds come in strong in the mornings, and even though the forecast calls for clouds and rain, by mid morning they usually clear up. Still, the temperatures are in the low 70’s so I am keeping my shirt on and the last of my farmer-tan for now, at least for another few days.

The local dogs have already come by to welcome us, which really ticked off Byron for a few minutes. Moose asserted his dominance with a few growls and the much larger dogs accepted who was boss my laying on the ground in a submissive posture. Moose really didn’t know what to do with that, so he walked away to pee on a rock.