Blogs from San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America

Yet again, I'm slacking off in my writing. I know I've been back a week now, but the final edition of Mexico 2012 is better late than never. I hope you enjoy my rambling recollections. 3/24/12 How time flies by ever so fast. Sadly, tonight is the eve of my last full day in Mexico. I fly out on Monday, but Steph has to work so tomorrow is really the last time we’ll get to hang out until I come visit again. I suppose, my current life as a student requires that I leave this misconstrued “fantasy” world for the life of stress, work, and studying back in the States. I am most definitely proud of my country, but I am the first to admit we have our priorities in such a wrong place. Although I ... read more

Being in Toronto drives me insane... reality is good but most of the time it sux... the travel bug is making me itch... and there I was... finding myself jumping in on an opportunity to travel the moment I saw it... I told myself before that travelling would be a little hard since I moved out on a new condo last Oct 2010... i dont know what it is... but exploring the world is just in my blood... and taking myself out of my very own passion was the most difficult thing ever! So I decided to take the risk, touch my savings, take a week off my 2 jobs (even though one of them was new and btw I am not payed for my vacations), and hopped in on that plane knowing only one thing.... ... read more

In case anyone else doesn't understand Spanish like me, cabo means cape in English. This area at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula is called Los Cabos or The Capes. Well we were scheduled to fly home yesterday, but the airplane had a mechanical problem and our flight was canceled. We waited in line for over 1-1/2 hours to get to the ticket agent to see what options we had. It was now about 4 PM and they could put us on a flight to LA and then connect to an 11:30 flight from LA to Chicago, getting in at around 6 AM. We both just decided to stay here and take the same flight that we were scheduled on the next day. We had left our resort at 10:30 AM and it was a ... read more

After delivering a boat to LA from BC in September, I spent a couple weeks travelling around California. Seeing the sights of LA, San Diego and San Fransisco bay area. Then a quick trip home, before I re-joined my old boat in San Diego, and we prepared to head south. Stopping in Guadalupe (shark island), and seeing a 15ft. great white shark from the boat was amazing. Then we stayed in Cabo for a few days... which ended up being very long days with the late nights we inevitably had. After getting that out of our system, we took the guests up the sea of cortez, where we had some absolutely picturesque anchorages... while having a look at La Paz and Loreto. Our last stop was Puerto Vallarta... which was another new stop for me, which ... read more

Yes, Merry Christmas from Mexico! After some persuading, I agreed to K's suggestion that we travel to Baja California for the Christmas holiday. We went to Los Cabos, which comprises two towns 30km apart at the southern tip of the peninsula, San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. It's almost 1,000 miles by road from San Diego so we didn't drive! Quiet We stayed in the old town of San Jose del Cabo, which is much quieter than Cabo San Lucas and mercifully free of timeshare touts. (Well, except for two Londoners we overheard at a restaurant on our last morning). It also doesn't have bars called Squid Roe and The Giggling Marlin. 'Nuff said. Los Cabos is south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the December temperatures were in the 80s, a welcome relief ... read more