ChrisJenTravel.com – Honeymoon Trek

Jenny: We drove around Todos Santos – sort of an artsy town – for a while, looking for hotels and inquiring about their rates.  When we do this, we always end up finding the best places.  We knocked on what looked like a quaint B&B, Casa Bentley, and were welcomed by 5 dogs, a Swiss lady, Beatrice and an American geologist, Bob.  We walked into their kitchen and immediately thought that we would not be able to afford staying here.  They had one vacancy and luckily it was the off-season, so we got the room for $50 a night.  We were eating our own breakfast and lunch and the $1 taco stands were extremely cheap for dinner, so we were thrilled that it was in our budget. 

Beatrice and the dogs gave us a tour.  Bob had taken 20 years to build the house/hotel (only 5 guest rooms) on 2 acres.  The entire place was made of stone…the walls, the floors…and incredibly beautiful.  We found paradise…an oasis after days of driving through the desert.  [read on]

So far we found some good waves and camped at a few nice spots but we hadn’t found any towns that we wanted to spend more than a day in.  So we decided to try to cover some more ground and get further down the coast. (we were only ¼ of the way down Baja after 4 days)  The surfer’s guide we had been trusting so far mentioned some cool bay towns just South of the North/South Baja border so we decided to sacrifice a day driving.  BAD IDEA.  We drove for something like 13 hours….the drive was supposed to be 5-6 hours.  We drove through nothing and then more nothing, then into the real nothing.  The desert has some pretty spots at sunset, but never seemed to end.  After a while the paved road ended and we were driving on a washboard dirt road for hours, sometimes slowing to a crawl because of the condition of the road.  [read on]