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Published: April 24th 2019
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Recently, I found this old picture in a family photo album. "Winter 1979" was scrawled on the back.
It made me wish life moved a little more Despacito....
When I first saw it, I was instantly teleported back in time when Los Cabos was nothing but sand dunes & sea. Off in the distance, you can make out the rock formation that’s called Lands End. The sleepy fishing pueblo of Cabo San Lucas barely existed.
Nowadays, this same spot is covered in multimillion dollar resorts, and all the chaos that comes with that. My attempt to get an “after” comparison photo foiled by looming concrete walls and vigilant security.
I wrote a little information on the back of this picture before I tucked it away back in the album to be stored away and forgotten. Maybe to be found by myself again, when I'm like 80.
Los Cabos will always have my heart. Growing up in Canada, every blustery winter, my father would pile all of us into the family camper and drive the five days down the coast of North America. Sometimes our plan was no plan at all. It was the
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40 years later and it’s so different 70’s and nobody went to Mexico. Except us.
We were on "Mexican time" as soon as we crossed the border. And we’d spend four months on the Baja. We would toodle (my Dad's word) along the coastline, checking out surf conditions and exploring new places. It was a carefree lifestyle and one that I miss.
I reenacted my old camping memories a few years back by spending a week near La Paz at Balandra Bay and blogging about it.
Only Those Who Can Leave Everything Behind Can Hope To Escape It was wonderful experience and I plan to do much more of that in the coming years...
And hey, who doesn't love an nostalgic old travel photo, right?
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D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
Going back in time
Wow, you are so fortunate to have seen Baja before the hoards of tourist. It is great taking a step back to those childhood memories. Evidently, you got your sense of adventure through genetics. Most parents back in the day would not have been making that trip. Priceless. Loved reading your old blog again. Thanks for adding it.