We’re in a bit of transition right now (yeh, I know, which one?). Seriously, we landed in La Paz a week ago and we now have a new apartment. What makes things a bit interesting is that we’re now in the building where I was living last year. We’re on the same side, just one floor down. Sweet!

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Mexico is a great place to visit and to live, in my opinion, which is why I keep coming back. Still, when living here, it’s wise to observe a few precautions. One of these is keeping plenty of water on hand and staying hydrated. If not, the results could be disastrous (it’s happened to me several times).

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At the moment, we’ve parked our butts in the 7 Crown Hotel in La Paz. First off, I wouldn’t recommend this place, mostly because we got a smoking room, even after clearly asking for a non-smoking room. Still, it’s not what we got, despite what they told me at the front desk. In addition, an ashtray with matches was sitting on the nightstand.

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The economy in Mexico has taken a huge hit, from what I can see in Loreto. There were hardly any tourists on the street and this was on the waterfront in one of the most desireable areas of town. This place is one step away from becoming a ghost town. As a case in point, one of the high end hotels here has 49 rooms. Of those, only 3 are occupied.

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This is a short excerpt on the Posada de las Flores, a hotel that’s a replica of a much older establishment. It’s beautiful here, but a word of warning, if you want to eat or stay here, make sure you have a healthy bank balance.

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Well, today dawned with the idea of continuing our journey, but it didn’t happen. Truth was, both Laura and me were exhausted from traveling and neither one of us could muster up the energy to drive to La Paz today. So we decided to plant our butts in Loreto for awhile.

It turned out to be [...]

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Today was a special day – my 51st birthday. And I decided to celebrate by continuing our journey down to Loreto

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In El Rosario we ran into another adventure, or in this case, a misadventure. We hadn’t loaded up on pesos in Ensenada and when we got to El Rosario we were running low.
We had enough to pay for the hotel and dinner, but then realized we were almost out of money.
Yours truly went [...]

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After our second day of driving we wound up in Guerrero Negro and decided to call it a day. Based on what we saw online at Trip Advisor, the Hotel Malarrimo in Guerrero Negro was rated as being 4.5 out of 5 stars.
This is utter b*llsh*t! When we got to the hotel (today [...]

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Through my friend Dennis (who I met in La Paz last winter), we learned about a great restaurant and hotel in El Rosario, which we checked out online.

The hotel was amazing, one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. And the price? Only $350 pesos (about $30.00USD). A comparable room in the Victoria area would [...]

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