Blogs from San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America - page 3

We grabbed a taxi to El Centro for $8, instead of killing ourselves walking all the way there. We had driven around it briefly when we had our rental car the other day, but now time to explore in more depth. Shops and stores line the streets, tourist trinkets like T-shirts, vanilla and woven goods. Tons of restaurants, cigar and tequila stores, and lots and lots of artisan goods. There's a district of a couple of blocks completely dedicated to art - paintings, sculptures, pottery and blown glass. There's a town center square still with a few Christmas decorations lingering on and a large yellow church that originally served as a mission. As usual, there are people on the streets outside their stores trying to lure you in, "We have what you need, just have a ... read more

It was a very lazy day today which we spent mostly just relaxing around our condo, laundry, tidying up, reading. It felt like Sunday although it was only Saturday. We have wonderful views of the ocean from our condo but we are not quite waterfront, those places are across the highway about a block away and would cost substantially more than what we paid. Our pool is lovely, the infinity type, but its pretty small, there's a few white plastic loungers and chairs with cover pads. Overall, our condo complex is fine but pretty basic and nothing fancy. So we've decided to adopt the large orange waterfront hotel across the street called the Bel-Air, we popped through their grounds on our walk back from town but yesterday we toured it in detail. It's really nice, their ... read more

To a mere bystander, Day of the Dead sounds rather ominous. But here in Mexico, this particular day is a celebration of life, through death. As the entire region prepares for Días de Los Muertos, streets and homes are spruced up, markets bustle with activity, the stalls are decorated with colourful symbolisms of death, everything from those beautiful Juan Torres sculptures, to marzipan bones, to little skulls made of sugar. Flower stands overflow with cempasúchsil, the orange marigold with a scent and colour so intense, the Aztecs used it because they believed it would guide their beloved ones back to their homes and alters. Here in San José del Cabo, up the bump street, my nose catches another drifting scent, the intoxication of freshly baked bread fills the air. On offer at the local Panaderia, the ... read more

Buenas noches! Sadly, it’s been entirely too long since my last entry. Looking back at the previous entries, I am reminded not only of the good and bad times abroad, but also of how thankful I am to document all of my adventures and mishaps along the journey. I write now from the cozy casita of my friend Steph in San Jose del Cabo, Mx. I flew into the southern tip of the Baja peninsula last Thursday, less than 24 hours after finishing my last exam and turning in the final paper of the quarter. This vacation was definitely in the “mandatory” category of my life. After a long, but unremarkable journey from home to Baja, I waited in Customs lines for well over an hour, praying that Steph’s boyfriend, Saul, hadn’t abandoned the airport pickup ... read more

23 February 2011 So we are awake to enjoy our first day in Los Cabos. We went downstairs for our free breakfast of hotcakes, eggs, frijoles, chilaquiles and coffee. We had our swimming gear on and were ready to go to the beach. We loaded into the car and drove to the Marina in Los Cabos. We heard Nikki Beach, was the place to go, but quickly found out that it was a name of a bar and the beach was actually called something different. If I remember the name, I will try to edit this sentence with its actual name—I do know its starts with an “M.” So, we found a parking space for 40 pesos or free with a validation from a bar in beach. We saved the ticket for the validation and went ... read more