Blogs from Baja California, Mexico, North America - page 4

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

Geo: 22.88, -109.9Our last stop in Mexico was a memorable one. We arrived in the vicinity of Cabo San Lucas before the sunrise, around 7am. We wouldn't be docking at a port or cruise terminal today. Instead, we were anchored in the bay and tendered to the pier via the lifeboats. Once ashore, we linked up with todays tour group and boarded a comfy Catamaran boat. The waterfront area of the city was pretty in itself; dozens of bars, shops, restaurants, yachts and hotels on a tropical beach setting. Heading out from Cabo San Lucas, we were treated to an all included continental breakfast. The Mexican coffee was delicious.We cruised out by the famous Lovers Beach, past a large sea lion colony and on to the spectacular cliffs and rock formations of Lands End. We spent ... read more

"On Tuesday it wasn't really a good day because I threw up because I got food poisoning from this restaurant called Mustafa. Only 3 of us got it, but I am fine now. Then Wednesday we just stayed at the hotel at the pool. We played soccer and had a little picnic by the pool. Now it is Thursday, it was not a good day either because I lost my ipod. I cried so much that my eyeballs almost fell out. But we went to one of the best restaurants in Mexico called Laja. It was very good. When we got back to the hotel we packed. Friday we left Mexico but that was not the end of the trip because we were going to San Diego to see my grandpa Jay." - Sofia After a ... read more

"Over Spring Break I went to Baja Mexico with my dad, it was awesome! The first day we got there we got our friends from the airport and went to the hotel called Boutique (I think). Then we went to this taco place. It was really good. The next day we went the supermarket to buy things we needed. I bought a doughnut. On Saturday, we went to a couple wineries and my dad bought wine, and lots of it. Sunday we went to only 2 wineries and then stayed at the hotel. We went in the pool and went to the foosball room." - Sofia Time for another trip out of the country, and this time to our neighbor, Mexico. It was my first time there and my 52nd country. I was also to visit ... read more

So I left Jack and San Francisco behind a week ago Tuesday. The riding south of San Fran was pretty sweet; lots of turns, just above the ocean. I spent two days making it down to LA, where I timed it perfectly arriving for rush hour traffic. 8 lane freeways and I was crawling along in 1st gear. Luckily LA is a small place and I only had to spend about an hour and a half doing this. I met up with my friends Tony and Josephine for dinner and we checked out Downtown Disney and grabbed dinner. Thursday, I continued on to San Diego where I would be hanging out with my buddy JP and his girlfriend Heather for the weekend. JP had ordered me the soft cases for my side panniers that could not ... read more