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Friday, December 9th, 2005

Hello Viewers – We apologize for the long wait between posts, and for our homepage not being updated lately. No, it is not due to us having too much fun in the sun – though we are enjoying the beaches. Our blog has been down due to switching internet hosts. I will be updating about two days, per day, starting on Monday 🙂

The homepage will be updated as soon as we get our internet connection working on our laptop — we have had a few problems with our laptop 🙁

Thanks for your viewing and we hope to be fully update, asap!

– april & jason

Nov 28 – Mexico

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Day 119 – Mexico, here we come! Or should I say Land of the Gringos, here we come! So many people from the states and Canada hang out down here. We crossed the border this morning, after arranging our car insurance at a drive through store. Yes; you can drive through and pick up your car insurance for Mexico! It was the cheapest and easiest thing in the world: off 0f I-5 heading to Mexico at San Ysidro, CA (I think second to last exit) – there is a company called Mexi that sells Ana Segurds insurance (literally right in front of you when you come off the exit ramp). They have very nice people that hook you up and even give you some maps of the area (they are okay maps) so you can drive in Baja. After our coverage was finalized we drove back onto the highway a noticed a sign staring at us that read – No Return To the US – so now we are stuck in our path!

The border crossing was as uneventful as sleeping. We went through a gate type area and just kept driving, along with everyone else. Jason asks me “are we in Mexico now?” and all I could say was “I think so”. Then we saw the other side of the freeway packed with cars and backed up for miles waiting to get into the US… that answered our question.


the usa and mexico border

Today we drove all the way into Ensenada, where we went to the immigration office to receive our tourist visa. If you are only staying in Baja, you don’t really need a tourist visa, but since we are heading over to mainland Mexico after this we had to get one – it cost about $21 usd each for 60 days. We also found out that our car didn’t need to get it’s tourist visa (yes, Henry gets one too) until La Paz, right before we get on the ferry to cross to mainland.


A blow-hole that we saw during low tide. During high tide it is supposed to be very impressive. Located on the Punta Banda Peninsula – La Bufadora. Sometimes it gets up to 80 feet above sea level!


the main street to La Bufadora, lined with vendors.

We drove the rest of the day until we hit Vicente Guerrero. We stayed at Mason Don Pepe’s RV and camping. It was suggested to us by the surf shop, they were very nice and gave us a list of places to stay and eat at on the way down. Pepe’s RV ground was very clean, with hot showers, and polite people – located just south of town.

Nov 26/27 – CA

Friday, December 9th, 2005
Day 117/118 - Today we visited Kristin, a friend of mine from high school. Kristin and her family live in Vista, California. This was our last stop before Mexico. It was really nice to visit someone ... [Continue reading this entry]