Smith Adventures

Sandra and friend scouting the shoreline Kids on trikes, where's the people? Yesterday we spent the day in La Paz, a lazy walk the malecon (boardwalk) kind of day and enjoy the weather which has been close to 30C once you get away from the water. Like other places there are very few people on the streets and that made it easy for us to spot Michel and Danielle, two French tourists who we first met on the beach at El Requeson. They were waiting to catch the ferry back to the mainland, and then a train up the Copper Canyon, a popular mainland tourist destination. They refused to go to Cabo San Lucas because of it’s artificial nature, an area leveraging Mexican weather but American influence and architecture. Interesting  protest. Fresh Fish and Pelicans The Malecon has many statues on it and is a wonderful place for people to walk. Later we’d go out for lunch at a local restaurant, then back to the RV camp where I was put to work helping them lay out some new RV pu...

The Sierra Gigantica's fall into the Sea A contradiction in  RV Sizes Canadian vs Swiss Our stay in Loreto was nice. The retired Swiss couple beside us in the 5 th wheel plated from Alberta were our closest neighbors but in the evening we swapped travel stories as well with a couple from Alaska and another from Australia both travelling together by Land Rovers.  The Swiss couple had an interesting take on things worth considering. They live 10 months of the year in the 5 th wheel pictured above, travelling and another 1-2 months back in Switzerland.  They say when they go back and talk with their friends there, the friends only can say that nothing has changed and that they are watching TV until they die. For them they were so enthused about just being in San Carlos west of Ciudad Constitucion and watching the grey whales give birth. Quite the contrast eh? As we drove south the scenery changed again, this time with some outer islands and the Sierra Giga...

Heading South - Stantispac to Loreto El Requeson Beach Camp After a nice stay in Santispac @ 80 peso/nt. $5.00 Cdn. Beach camping experience we headed south to next visit Loreto. On the way we wanted to visit the other beaches to see how they compared.  There is Posada, Coyote and El Requeson, the beach everyone says is in every ad for owning an RV. Well they don’t show the road in, which right now is truly 4WD only, since the September hurricane but we managed it.  In 4WD Low range 1 st gear. This (above) is what we saw when we got out on the beach. What a beautiful place and we’ll likely come back and actually camp here as we head back north. Pedro, Pierre, Janet, Debbi, Greg, Sandra (Missing are Jean and Brian (2) We left Santispac to the group of people we met in such a short period of time. The benefits of traveling! May the Force be with you! Greg, doubles as Mr Spock as Debbi bought him a set of Spock ears in Viking, Alberta awhile back when th...

Shortly after Skyping with Shannon and family back in Calgary we headed to Potrero CA, a popular meeting point and county park for travelers heading into the Baja. We hadn’t been successful in finding someone who was close to our schedule, CJ and Kathy were a week earlier with their plans and had decided to join a caravan for safety, so we were prepared to go in alone. To our good fortune Greg Mustard came over while walking his dog. He and Debbi are from Penticton, BC and were heading in, and have been there many times over 25 yrs. He asked if we wanted to join them and we arranged a time to head out and a radio channel to converse with using the GPRS radios we both carried.  1st evening Debbi and Greg 7:15 am the next morning we headed out and crossed at Tecate MX. With visitor cards arranged we filled with gas @ 10.61 pesos /litre and we were on our way. In Ensenada we stopped to withdraw some cash and pay the visitor card fee at the bank. Later that same da...