Driving down the Baja Peninsula! La descente de la peninsule de Baja California!

Well, you would think that spending 6 weeks of leisure in a house in Baja Mexico would make it easier for me to keep up with the blog posts, but no.

Here's a bit on the drive down the Baja peninsula.

On aurait pu croire que de passer 6 semaines de relaxation dans une maison a Baja au Mexique m'aiderait a rester a jour sur mes articles de blogue, mais non.

Voici quelques mots et photos de notre descente de la peninsule de Baja Californie.


First of all, the drive down. Wow some of it was EPIC!
Premierement, la descente en auto de Calexico, Californie jusqu'ici. Wow, certains detours furent tres excitants (je veux dire epeurants).


Premier jour: Calexico via Mexicali jusqu'a Bahia San Luis de Gonzaga (on the sea of cortez side). On avait decidé qu'on ferait du camping le premier soir! AH oui! J'ai oublié de mentionner qu'on a laissé notre tres chere roulotte en Californie. Nous avions decidé de louer une maison (luxe bien merité apres 10 semaines en camping sur la route) et nous n'etions pas certains de l'état des routes a Baja California. Comme nous avons bien fait!! Donc on campe en tente! Yeah!

First day: Calexico California, crossing border in Mexicali all the way to Bahia San Luis de Gonzaga. We had decided to camp on our first night. OH! that reminds me, I forgot to tell you that we left our beloved Biggy Bob trailer in California mostly because we were renting a house for a couple months ( a well deserved rest after the 10 weeks of travel through the states in our miniature trailer) and also we were not so sure about the state of the roads in Baja. How right we were to leave it behind!!!

Nice camp spot!

That night the algae on the beach had bioluminescence! (or was bioluminescent- not sure how to say). So we got to step on it and it would light up under our feet! So crazy and beautiful! Like stepping on miniature little lit up cities!

Waking up in the morning:

Day two: Bahia San Luis de Gonzaga to Guerrero Negro (on the pacific side).

WOW! there was a very long detour through the desert on a dirt road that was very very basic and poorly signed. In the end I think we could have rejoined the main highway sooner than we did but basically we had to guess at many forks in the road where to go. We ended up behind a bus which bottomed out in a section. Our only option was to drive through the desert making our own detour of the detour, on no road, just amongst the cacti and plants. We barely made it. I have a feeling the bus is still there 6 weeks later:

We have no photos of Guerrero Negro. It was a very mediocre little town. Slept in a hotel that was beuh.

Day 3: Guerrero Negro to Loreto, back on the sea of Cortez side. Amazing desert scenery!! Very few green things growing, lots of cacti of course ( i guess they are green) and lots of dry bushes and tumble weeds. Lots of cows close to the very narrow road!
Loreto is a lovely little quaint town. We stayed in a nice hotel there. It had a pool but as per usual, the water was freezing! So no swim for the boys.

If you are wondering why the boys are drinking very red coloured fizzy pop in the morning, all I can say is...it's Gareth's fault! no, no, no. I'm not sure how that happened but it's good to be wild and crazy like that sometimes!

Day 4: Loreto to La Ventana, first crossing the peninsula back to the pacific side and back again to the Sea of Cortez via La Paz, bigger city where we did a shop before heading out to La Ventana.

Here we saw manta rays flying/jumping out of the sea! Gorgeous spots along the Cortez side!!

.. and at long last, we get to La Ventana, to our little fun house called Casa Sushi. It is owned by the people who have Sushi Village in Whistler, I was told.