Well, we made it to Bahia de los Angeles yesterday about 5pm. We had a good two-day trip down here, and will be leaving for points south tomorrow morning (see our itinerary below).
The trip to this point in Baja is a journey of contrasts. As we cross the border at Tijuana and travel through Ensenada, there is a fairly large population and lots of "American style" stores and housing developments. But once you head out of Ensenada, we start to see the more sparsely populated parts of Baja, small "colonias" of a couple of hundred people at the most, mostly open spaces and desert, cactus, scrub plants and the like.
We've already had some interesting and challenging situations, and everyone has risen to the challenges we have faced. Just after lunch on Tuesday, as we were heading into the final stretch before setting up camp in Colonia Vicente Guerrero, we blew a tire on the trailer...which meant stopping and changing the tire. No hay problema! On Wednesday as we approached our campsite at Catavina, Rafe's van--pulling the trailer--got stuck in some deep sand. Everyone piled out of each van, we unloaded and unhooked the trailer, moved the trailer out of the way, dug under the rear tires and placed rocks under each tire and drove out of the sand, re-loaded and re-hooked the trailer, and entered the campsite from a different road. All in the space of an hour. Everyone pitched in and as someone has said, many hands made light(er) work--although very dirty!
We'll post more as we get all of our equipment set up, but all is well, and everyone is gradually getting into the local motion of Baja.
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