When you come to Mexico, it’s important to have valid Mexican insurance and a driver’s license from your country and to keep both with you when you drive. One other point. Don’t carry an original license or insurance papers. If you run into a crooked cop he/she may try to confiscate them (and/or your vehicle, [...]

This is one of my favorite beaches. And as you look at the video, you’ll see why. Balandra is just a short distance away from another excellent beach, Tecolote.

In this video are scenes from one of my favorite local hangouts, El Triunfo. Many years ago it was a mining town but all of that was shut down in the 1920′s, if my information is correct. Now, the town is a shell of its former self with a population of 367 people. When you [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 – [...]