Blogs from Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, North America

Our six month “visa” to Mexico will soon be expired and we will be ending our visit to the Baja California Peninsula. We are spending our last month in Playa Rosarito, a small beach town just 20 minutes south of the U.S. Border. I put parenthesis around the word visa for a reason. We don’t have one! Technically we are illegal aliens and have been for our entire trip in Baja. We were talking to a local expat and told him of our lack of paperwork and he explained that large portions of the people in Baja are “illegal”. Now knowing that there are so many of “us” gives us the confidence to finally confess our less than correct ways. When we originally crossed the border at Tijuana back in August we read in Lonely Planet ... read more

Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:39 PM We're here... Spunky the kitty princess won't come out from hiding. Everything is fine. Monday, December 15, 2008 10:54 PM The 3 of us were playing cards and now it's time for lunch. Yvonne is not able to have her surgery this year. She has to come back in February. She'll be leaving Thursday. By then hopefully it will warm up and we'll be happy to stay. Yvonne has been regaling us with family history and stories. As I thought she is not a naive English speaker. I'll put them into a journal by the end of the week. Howard and Yvonne only eat veggies and sandwiches so K and I will have to find which broken, ancient, pans to use for use, I'm not quite used to no hot ... read more

The Mexican national surfing competition was held right in front of our house from Sept 19 - 23. Saturday was also Peter Tosh Day and there was a reggae festival going on at the same time. Eek a Mouse and Israel Vibration were there as well as many other good bands. The weather was beautiful and we made a lot of new friends including surf legend Jack Flynn. It was nice to have such a relaxing couple of days because right before that Justine was woken up during the night and a man was on the patio and seemed to be looking through the glass slider. (Our bed was in the middle of the living room because we were in the middle of having tile floors put in our bedrooms.) Justine jumped and yelled "get out ... read more

Seufer6: Destination--Rosarito Beach, Mexico After our trip to the Midway we had a nice visit with Grandma Bonnie, Uncle Thane, Aunt Leslie, and cousins Laney and Carley. At this time we have been here for 7 days and 6 nights and have had many adventures!! Day 1- We went straight from the USS Midway to Rosarito Beach, Mexico! After getting to Rosarito Beach, we went straight to my daddy's favorite taco place, Yaqui's tacos. Yummy. The cook makes everything right in front of you and he makes funny cat sounds. The radishes are deliciously crisp. Day 2- We went straigt to the Rosarito Beach Hotel to have some breakfast and do arts and crafts!! All the kids got there own clay sculpture to paint- Me(Jessica): Dolphin, Tanner: Dragon, Emma: Hello Kitty, Laney: Unicorn, Lilly: Care Bear, ... read more

One of the best things about living in San Diego is how close it is to mexico. I've been down there three times now. It takes about an hour to get there and its easy to get a hotel room right near all the big clubs in Rosarito. We drive through Tijuana to get there but haven't really checked it out yet, its a fairly dirty and disgusting place. First two times i we went down for a night only. Second time we took one of Amy's friends who was visiting for a week and who i met at their wedding. Its always heaps of fun. The area we go is squarely aimed at american tourists looking for a party- especially those between 18 and 21 who can't drink in the states but can easily do ... read more