This morning we threw in yet another physical activity to balance our endless eating and drinking: hiking! The islands are one of Mexico’s newest National Parks, and according to Chino, that has resulted in many more protected areas and restrictions of human activity versus when he started giving tours of the islands 18 years ago.… Read more…

Coffee was on at 7am (out of the big blue Igloo dispenser again), followed shortly by a cornucopia of cold breakfast items to get us fueled up for the day’s kayaking. But instead of getting in the water near our scheduled 9am start time, we got a lecture and a lesson from Coach Chino, who… Read more…

So we’re going to kayak around an island! Two islands, actually! Six days of kayaking between six nights of camping on the beaches. Weeks ago, Rett had read about Isla Espiritu Santo and gotten the idea of this kayaking tour into her head. I was initially resistant because the cost, at nearly US$3000 for the… Read more…

Day 5 Attending a baseball game during our stay in La Paz didn’t work out, but we could still go to the movies! Rett needed to see the third installment of the “Animales Fantasticos” (Fantastic Beasts) series in a theater, so can we make that happen? La Paz is big enough to host several movie… Read more…

Day 2 We’ve booked five nights in this La Paz AirBNB, tying (with Guerrero Negro) our longest “intentional stay” in Baja. It’s nice knowing that we don’t need to start researching our next destination, route, and place to stay for quite some time, so that means we can spend a day doing very little, and… Read more…

Only a small coda remained as the cap to our successful Loreto-to-La Paz push, so we enjoyed a relaxing morning at our courtyard-connected suite of rooms at our suburban AirBNB. Except that a fifteen-minute segment of guilt and shame dumped my heart into my feet and shattered that relaxation. When Rett was on the phone… Read more…