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 [...]

Day 2 of our Baja trip. While the day dawned relatively clear, we ran into torrential rain between here and El Rosario. The rain was so bad at times that even on the high setting, it was hard to see out of the windshield. In addition, there was a lot of flooding and more than [...]

Crossing into Mexico from the San Diego/Palm Springs, there are several options. These are Tijuana, Tecate and Calexico/Mexicali. Of these, avoid Tijuana like the plague. There are many problems there and I’ve heard stories of shootings on the autopista (toll highway) south of there. We decided on Tecate because we’d been told it’s a nice crossing, which is true.

After a long time apart (two months), Laura and me reunited in San Diego. It was quite emotional for both of us since we realized there was much more to our relationship than either one of us had thought. Getting back together again meant continuing where we had left off and now we could continue the process of building a life together.