Author: neil

The day’s ride started flat again, but unlike yesterday, we saw the return of cacti and wildflowers, and could see rising land beyond the plain. So we basically had to “endure” a whole one day of “boring” riding before returning to the magic that has been spoiling us throughout the length of Baja. Though some…

Ever since we’d come out of injury-recovery and left Redlands, CA, in early February, our destination had been Guerrero Negro, with a goal to arrive before the whales departed Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Now that we had reached that destination, we were left with a “where next?” Our initial assumption before entering Mexico had been…

Day 4 A day editing the hundreds of whale photos and writing about our experience from the day before. And doing laundry. I had noticed a “lavanderia” (a Mexican version of a laundromat) a block away, and while doing laundry in a sink/bucket is relatively easy, the drying (in a sand-blown town) is kind of…

Day 2: Chores We have a small 1-bedroom AirBNB house rented for 5 nights in Guerrero Negro. It’s on a dusty street with a patchwork of vacant lots, but that’s what makes it a true Baja experience, since that seems to be the structure of most towns. Guerrero Negro appears a bit more extreme in…