Having made our way down through Baja we have now reached the southern tip, and are about to embark on a ferry taking us and the bike to mainland Mexico tomorrow.
Southern Baja has been a fair bit warmer and we finally got our shorts out and took a walk down the beach yesterday, which was really nice. Some of the previous nights have been so cold that we had to take out our sleeping bags even though we stayed in a hotel. I guess people here are not quite used to the low temperatures we have been experiencing in the last week or two and don't seem to leave motel rooms with warm blankets or heaters.
Since our last post we have moved on from San Ignacio to Mulegé where we stayed for two nights to take a bit of a break and get some cloths washed. We moved on to Loreto and then made our way to La Paz to book our ferry tickets. La Paz is gorgeous, incredible crystal clear blue water and beautiful bays that are unspoiled by any sort of development. We stayed in a really comfortable motel in La Paz after a scary mouldy motel that we suffered in Loreto.. it had a wake you up in the night kind of bad smell!
We met a really interesting guy, Will, in La Paz who works as an adventure tour guide....how does a person get that sort of work I hear you ask?, well like most of the best things in life he told us that he kind of fell into it. He managed to juggle holding down a regular job with his adventure tours on the side and he was incredibly well travelled and interesting person.
When we were in San Ignacio we met a really nice and unsurprisingly Oregonian :) couple Jim and Nancy; we have met dozens of people from Portland, Oregon, USA since we have been here, we doubt there is anyone left in Oregon at the mome
nt! We then ran into them again in Mulege and they explained that they were on their way down to stay in the house they had just bought into in Los Barriles. They kindly invited us to join them for a few days if our travels took us down that way. So we dropped them a line when we were nearby and they have so generous and openhearted, fed us home cooked food and made us feel at welcome in their beautiful beachfront home. They also took us to their church service and the whole congregation prayed for our journey and safe return, we had a few tears in our eyes. After the service a few couples came up and told us about their motorbike trips, which wa
s really interesting and encouraging.
People everywhere have been so generous and caring towards us in our travels we feel really looked after everywhere we go. When you are so far from home on a trip like this one, that sort of generosity makes all the difference.
Los Barriles is a beautiful beach town popular with windsurfers and kite boarders most of whom are retirees, the fitness and activity level of these retirees puts us to shame! We have had a unique opportunity to rest and recover here in luxury, the generosity of our hosts has been extraordinary! Thanks so much to all the wonderful people we have met.
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Next stop: Mazatlan, Mexico
4 comments:
Hi guys! It's Shane and Amy from Portland (and El Rosario). I am very excited to see you are meeting all kinds of Oregonians- it is, hands down, the best U.S. state! AND, when you finally make it up here (you know, to sell that bike, probably to my husband), you have an open ended place to stay with us. We have a nice spare bedroom, sadly underused, with your names on it. There is a great bus line, a nice 'hood, and decent tour guides. Just get here before October 2009 or plan on minding the house while we're gone!
We headed north after meeting you and met with more cold weather and rain, so sad. But, we had a really nice trip.
I really look forward to reading future posts, and living vicariously through you!
Sorry about the fall, that must have shook you up. Glad you are OK.
Seriously, visit! At least keep in touch. If you need ANYTHING while you're on the road, we're happy and able to help, just let us know...
---Your post about how Oregon must be empty reminded me of a great Oregon leader (I say this even though he was a Republican!), a great book, and a quote. McCall was the father of land use planning in Oregon and introduced the very first bottle bill.
The book: Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story
The quote: We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
McCall left office on January 14, 1975. Despite his famous 1971 quote imploring people not to move to the state, Oregon's population grew 25% during his eight years in office.
Thanks so much for your comment guys! I have taken the liberty to repost it without your address so that the evil spam deamons dont get to you ;-) We saved it into our little trip diary, though so we`ll ve in touch for sure!!!
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