Today’s ride was a bit the opposite of our recent pattern: it started with a rough morning, but the tailwinds stayed steady to make reaching the end relatively easy. The first issue in the morning was the heat. Partly due to not getting on the road particularly early in the morning, but it’s also possible… Read more…

Day 2 It seems like Santa Rosalia isn’t a popular stopping point for most touring cyclists. On the one hand, that makes some sense, as the palm oasis towns of San Ignacio and Mulege are more-attractive stops on either side of it. But on the other hand, it’s a historically- and culturally-unique part of Baja,… Read more…

We set a dawn alarm so we could see the golden sun lighting the face of Tres Virgenes, and then watch it run down its slopes to paint the valley in colors. The central tower was once again our vantage point, and we were happy that the land and sky rewarded our early rise. We… Read more…

Coming into San Ignacio from Guerrero Negro, we had pedaled 92 miles total across the two days, which is the most we’ve done since our first week of riding, nearly six months ago, and by far the biggest two-day total since our early-February restart. That was more proof of the return of Rett’s strength, and… Read more…

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… Read more…

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… Read more…