Bahia Conceptcion to Loreto

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We woke up to a fight outside! Yes, two sea gulls were loudly arguing over what is still unknown. A stone would have made a massive difference (I do like animals, I swear) to balance the power. Now that we were awake, we slowly put our clothes on and went into Mulege for breakfast. We drove to Patty's place, also known as Rice & Beans. She was great! The restaurant had 4 tables that were in a living room and the kitchen was the same as you would find in any home. This was really a home cooked meal. The coffee was top quality and the juice was freshly squeezed. I had an Avocado and Cheese omelet and Cris had the Chilaquiles. The food came with potatoes, frijoles and tortillas. After gorging ourselves with all this food, we then went for small walk up the street to find the Mission. After the quick beating from the sun, I had quickly noticed that we had to drive to the Mission Santa Rosalia de Mulege—as the walk would have been punishing.

We packed into the car and went to the Mission. It was a beautiful old Mission with a great view of the river that was line with palms. There was also an eerily flock of black birds with odd beaks and tails circling above the river. The birds would dive into the water every so often. I could not tell if any were winner or losers in the game. We then returned to our car and drove back to Playa Santipac. We washed some of our clothes using a bit of soap, a plastic bag and water from the Sea of Cortez. We then hung the clothes over the Palapa next to us and as they dried we jumped into the Sea of Cortez—refreshing! We swam for a bit and lay on our blankets at the beach. After a bit of sun on our skin we gathered our things and loaded back into the car.

We drove down south on Highway 1, but had a quick stop at "El Burro's" restaraunt and bar in the Bahia de Conception. We met an American named Andrew from Alburn, California. He was retired from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He was a lineman and had suffered a few injuries. His back was hurt and he lost his thumb. Fortunately doctors had placed his big toe on his thumb. It was an odd site for sure. Andrew was divorced, had a house in Alburn, a truck with a camper, a dog named Shadow and a son at the age of 30 who must still be figuring his life out, cause Andrew mentioned he was recently living in his home. Meeting Andrew reminded me that we can't slave away at work all the time and at an early age we should start planning how we would like to retire. Let it be retiring at an early age or at a young age, we do not want to wait too long to figure it out, cause if you wait too long then you might suffer along the way. Well, I guess sometimes people need to suffer to learn. Also, the restaurant "El Burro" had an excellent example of a family working together. The children of the family running the restaurant lived in Mulege during the school week, which was about 60 km away. The children would return from school on Friday and come to help in the restaurant. They were aged between 6 and 13 years old. They wore the same uniforms my sisters have at their school in Rosarito and since the restaurant was already busy the kids were also wearing their uniforms at the restaurant. I wonder how many kids in our 1st world countries would help their families in this manner.

We finished our lunch and conituned on the Highway 1 to Loreto. We encountered a military checkpoint on the way and they did a quick search of our car. They were more curious with how my solar panel charger worked than anything else. Possibly the boredom of being posted in the middle of nowhere was getting to them. I can relate to their troubles with first hand knowlwedge. Many times while I was a soldier I had mundane tasks that amounted to minimal brain power. It was quite mind numbing.

We finally arrived in Loreto and drove to Rivera del Mar RV Park. Andrew reccomended it to us and it looked nice. I marked it in my GPS and continued into the city to see any other options. All others were very pricey for our budget, so we returned to Rivera del Mar RV Park. The RV Park was clean, had a restaraunt, hot showers, clean bathrooms, laundry facilties and WIFI. It was a great place to picth a tent! There were numbered lot for RVs and numbered lots for tents. We set up our tent in Lot number 3, which was next to some retired Americans who lived in Mulege. They were returning from La Paz on their dental visit. We showered and finally cleaned up after a couple days without a proper shower. We did not smell bad, since we did dip into the Sea of Cortez, but it was nice to have some fresh water and soap.

We walked into the center and Cris wanted to go to a taco stand that we had driven by. I told her it was behind a large hotel I had seen, but she said it was another way. I agreed with her leading me, but I kept mentioning to her that I believed it was behind the hotel. I was nice enough to let her discover she was incorrect. I found it to be funny more than anything else. After about an hour of walking nowhere I took control our journey and lead us to the taco stand. Although we walked a lot, the extra walking made my bottle of "Sol" beer that much better for tasting. Oh yeah, Cris is telling me to mention that she said "Sorry." We had tostadas of ceviche, shrimp tacos and fish tacos. The waiter also gave us some clams for free. They were delicious! Our waiter was hilarious too. He had asked us if we ever had clams before and we said no. So he looked towards me and asked if I ever ate a hairy clam. Well, you can guess where he was going with this.
We finished our food and went for a small walk to the plaza, which was full of kids on skates. They were zipping all around. We walked to the coast and we could see the full moon hanging over the water. We then walked to a wine bar and had a glass of Argentinian wine. It was excellent and a perfect ending of a day.

We got into the car and went to the Mision. It was beatiful old Mision that had a great view of the river lined with palms. There was also an earily flock of black birds with odd beaks and tails circling above the river. The birds would dive into the water every so often. I could not tell if they would catch anything. We then got back into our car and drove back to Playa Santipac. We washed some of our clothes using a bit of soap, a plastic bag and water from the Sea of Cortez. We then hung the clothes over the Palapa next to us and as they dried we jumped into the Sea of Cortez—refreshing! We swam for a bit and layed on our blanket on the beach. After a bit of sun on our skin we gathered our things and loaded back into the car.

We drove down south on Highway 1, but had a quick stop at "El Burro's" restaraunt and bar in the Bahia de Conception. We met an American named Andrew from Alburn, California. He was retired from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He was a linemen and had suffered a few injuries. His back was hurt and he lost his thumb. Fortunately doctors had placed his big toe on his thumb. It was an odd site for sure. Andrew was divorced, had a house in Alburn, a truck with a camper, a dog named Shadow and a son at the age of 30 who must still be figuring his life out, cause Andrew mentioned he was recently living in his home. Meeting Andrew reminded me that we can't slave away at work all the time and at an early age we should start planning how we would like to retire. Let it be retiring at an early age or at a young age we, do not want to wait too long to figure it out, cause if you wait too long then you might suffer along the way. Well, I guess sometimes people need to suffer to learn. Also, the restaraunt "El Burro" had an excellent example of a family working together. The children of the family running the restaraunt lived in Mulege during the school week, which was about 60 km away. The children would return from school on Friday and come to help in the restaraunt. They were aged between 6 and 13 years old. They wore the same uniforms my sisters have at their school in Rosarito and since the restaraunt was already busy the kids were also wearing their uniforms at the restaraunt. I wonder how many kids in our 1st world countries would help their families in this manner?

We finished our lunch and conituned on the Highway 1 to Loreto. We encountered a military checkpoint on the way and they did a quick search of our car. They were more curious with how my solar panel charger worked than anything else. Possibly the boredom of being posted in the middle of nowhere was getting to them. I can relate to their troubles with first hand knowlwedge. Many times while I was a soldier I had mundane tasks that amounted to minimal brain power. It was quite mind numbing.

We finally arrived in Loreto and drove to Rivera del Mar RV Park. Andrew reccomended it to us and it looked nice. I marked it in my GPS and continued into the city to see any other options. All others were very pricey for our budget, so we returned to Rivera del Mar RV Park. The RV Park was clean, had a restaraunt, hot showers, clean bathrooms, laundry facilties and WIFI. It was a great place to picth a tent! There were numbered lot for RVs and numbered lots for tents. We set up our tent in Lot number 3, which was next to some retired Americans who lived in Mulege. They were returning from La Paz on their dental visit. We showered and finally cleaned up after a couple days without a proper shower. We did not smell bad, since we did dip into the Sea of Cortez, but it was nice to have some fresh water and soap.

We walked into the center and Cris wanted to go to a taco stand that we had driven by. I told her it was behind a large hotel I had seen, but she said it was another way. I agreed with her leading me, but I kept mentioning to her that I believed it was behind the hotel. I was nice enough to let her discover she was incorrect. I found it to be funny more than anything else. After about an hour of walking nowhere I took control our journey and lead us to the taco stand. Although we walked a lot, the extra walking made my bottle of "Sol" beer that much better for tasting. Oh yeah, Cris is telling me to mention that she said "Sorry." We had tostadas of ceviche, shrimp tacos and fish tacos. The waiter also gave us some clams for free. They were delicious! Our waiter was hilarious too. He had asked us if we ever had clams before and we said no. So he looked towards me and asked if I ever ate a hairy clam. Well, you can guess where he was going with this.
We finished our food and went for a small walk to the plaza, which was full of kids on skates. They were zipping all around. We walked to the coast and we could see the full moon hanging over the water. We then walked to a wine bar and had a glass of Argentinian wine. It was excellent and a perfect ending of a day.

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