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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 the sunrise, drinking coffee with TJ and Vincent as we watched the waves roll in, going for swims, maybe some fishing, reading, cleaning the van, and eating.


our view from the van

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TJ surfing _____________________________a nameless surfer
It wasn’t cloudy or stormy – I just don’t have a super good zoom on my camera! That is why the pics above are grainy….

The town was having a turtle release celebration while we were there. They had a lot of activities that lead up to releasing the baby turtles, who are protected on the beach until they are ready to go out to the ocean. One of the activities was to come to Los Cerritos and make sand sculptures of sea turtles laying their eggs.


sand sculptures of sea turtles laying their eggs

We found out at the end of the week that Patty’s friend, who owns a lot in Todos Santos, said we could stay on her lot in exchange for a little bit of yard work and picking up some trash. It was really thoughtful for Patty to ask her, and it will let us walk to town for our lessons, which means we will spend more time around Spanish speaking people instead of at the beach, where it is so easy to speak only English. Though we’ll hang out on the beach on the weekends 😉


A German couple own this rig – it is a monster rv! They have had a lot of great travels in it, check out their website www.pibock.de but you have to know German to understand it.

Dec. 2 – Mexico, Baja

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Day 123 – After a nice morning stroll on the beach, we headed into Todos Santos to do some errands. This was our first of many visits to the town during our stay here. The roads in the main downtown area are mostly paved, which is not very common in a small town. There are numerous tourist shops filled with ceramics, glass ware, traditional souvenirs, and hammocks. There are also a number of restaurants that are extremely nice, but high priced. We really enjoy the smaller roadside stands, which are cheaper and have very good food – great for the budget!

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The through road in Todos Santos___________Los Adobes Cafe

We used the internet at Los Adobes Café, where the coffee beverages are the same price as they are in Seattle, wow! The café is set in a lovely desert garden patio and is a great atmosphere to surf the internet. While we were there we met a gentleman, Guillermo Bueron, who gives Spanish lessons in town. He is our new professor 🙂 So we are almost set for our time in Todos Santos – we have a place to stay and Spanish lessons.

We headed back to the beach to camp for the weekend. Can’t beat the beach life – a free place to camp! And since we picked up some wax for the surf camp on our way down, they are letting us use their toilet, plus we get a one day rental of a surf board. We’ll see if we can actually surf or not 😉


Los Cerritos – taken from the northern ridge of the beach