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Dec. 31 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Day 152 – So, it’s the last day of the year. We will enter the new year of 2006, and if everything goes well for us, we won’t be setting foot in the states until 2007. We have started to take on a different view of time. We don’t really look at time by weeks now, like we used to when we worked in the office, when we looked forward to the weekends and what events we had planned. Now we tend to look at time in the frame of a few days, or weeks, depending on our next location/destination.

We were invited by a couple to a new year’s party that was being thrown by a family that lives in Todos Santos. That could be an interesting event and really put our Spanish to the test. This is a day of many endings. We have our last Spanish class today and we will be leaving Todos Santos in the next day or two to catch the ferry to Topolobampo on the mainland of Mexico.

Dec. 26/29 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Day 147-150 – We drove back to Todos Santos, staying at Los Cerritos again. We had to get back to Spanish lessons. While we were doing that, Peter explored the town a bit more and did some gift shopping. We ate dinner at Los Fuentes one night. Los Fuentes has a great atmosphere with very friendly staff. The food was excellent and the prices were quite reasonable; a nice difference from most of the restaurants in the town, where the prices are quite spendy.

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Last sunrise at Cabo Pulmo ____ The fisherman’s camp at the beach.


Henry and the Gaint Catcus – Taken by Peter


Cafe Todos Santos – the best bread you can buy in Baja. – Taken by Peter

Thursday came and it was time for Peter to catch his plane back to the states and the rainy winter of Seattle 🙁 Though I am sure he is happy to be back in his own bed and not living out of a car anymore. He was looking forward to his own bathroom where he can flush the toilet paper down the toilet and drink the faucet water when he brushed his teeth. I don’t blame him.


Ready for the cold weather of Seattle and his own bed

Peter, it was fantastic to see you and we were very happy to have you come visit us!! It was delightful to have a family member down to spend the holidays. Thanks for bringing down all the things we wanted from the states and we hope to see you in SE Asia!!

Tonight Araceli invited us to her casa for dinner, with her husband Oliver and our professor Guillermo. She made a delicious guacamole dip to start off with and I ate way too much – hardly leaving room for dinner! Dinner was a very tasty salad and quesadillas. I don’t know if I could ever get sick of Mexican food. Thank you so much Araceli for having us over, we really enjoyed hanging out and seeing your home.

Dec. 25 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 146 – Merry Christmas everyone!! Okay, it’s posted a bit late – but hey, we can’t get internet everywhere. We went snorkeling most of the day today. I wore my long john top to keep my upper ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 24 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 145 - After a six mile jaunt down a dirt road, not as bad as everyone made it out to be, we arrived in the isolated town of Cabo Pulmo, where there are only radio phones, that cost ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 22/23 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 143/144 - This morning Jason and I got up at dawn to watch the big waves roll in. Today a big swell is coming down the coast and creating big waves. It was impressive to see, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 19/21 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 140-142 - Today my brother, Peter, arrived at Los Cabos airport for his nine day stay with us. We were very excited to have our first travel guest on our trip. We drove back to Los ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 18/20 – Mexico, Baja

Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Day 137-139 - We visited Susanna’s house for some coffee and nice conversation. Her house, which is just about finished, is an amazing network of gardens, rooms, and open spaces. She created a clean modern feeling home ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 14/15 – Mexico, Baja

Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Day 135/136 - Today after our Spanish lessons we headed for La Paz to get some work done on our VW and the computer. We went to Exacto, a computer store, in hopes of getting our laptop working ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 12/13 – Mexico, Baja

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Day 133/134 - Our second week of Spanish lessons and our first time staying in the town. We said good bye for the time being to Vincent and TJ – it was really great meeting you guys! ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 7/11 – Mexico, Baja

Monday, December 19th, 2005
Day 128-132 - We stayed at the beach all week and drove into town for our Spanish class. The beach is free and it saves us some cash. Besides learning Spanish, our days were filled with watching ... [Continue reading this entry]