We made our first stop at Don Pepe's camp ground in Colonia Vicente Guerrero yesterday about 3pm, just in time to unload the trailor, set up the tents and get dinner cooked and served.
After dinner, we had a discussion around the campfire about the different observations the students had made to that point in the trip, and read aloud from John Steinbeck's, _Log from the Sea of Cortez_. Steinbeck asks what it is that drives people to pursue the things they do, whether poets, scientists, or adventurers. For Steinbeck, his "unlimited curiosity" about the life patterns of the Sea of Cortez could only be satisfied by an expedition such as they undertook. They went, he says, "wide open [to] see what we see, record what we find, and not fool ourselves with any conventional scientific strictures."
As we reflected on our reading and discussion of Stienbeck, while heading for some of the same places that he had seen--and more--we saw that it was also our goal to go "all out" to the extent that we can, to discover as much as we can about the nature, beauty, and people of Baja, and in the end, about ourselves.
