So, to avoid blog-writer-paralysis, I'll keep this relatively short and simple.
There wasn't gas available in Baja at the time of our last blog post, and we spent a day in San Felipe with Hal's family, hanging out and waiting to see if gas would arrive.
Thankfully the trucks started moving and we were able to get gas before we headed further south.
We had a wonderful visit in San Felipe with Pops and Robin-they were wonderful hosts and Robin even homemade a pumpkin pie for Hal's bday, his favorite!
We left San Felipe and took two days to drive south, through Loreto, to our destination, the uber fancy and awesome Villa del Palmar, Loreto.
On our first night, we stopped a little south of Guerrero Negro at the Ojo de Liebre lagoon. $10 got you a sweet spot right on the beach, with a little palapa. No facilities, so it was a spit bath that night, but boy were the views worth it!
The next day we cruised through the great little towns of San Ignacio and Santa Rosalia. We stopped in both to explore, definitely good places to check out.
We made it to the resort in the evening, definitely wouldn't recommend driving at night in Baja, just because the roads are so narrow and pitted.
We spent the next five days relaxing and exploring with our wonderful friends, Cheryl and Rhonda.
Hal and I had never been to a resort that nice, and it was such a treat! There were even five miles of maintained hiking trails right outside our room, which was an unexpected and welcome surprise.
We got to go on a snorkeling trip, which turned into a dolphin watching trip, so neat!
After that much pampering and fancy hot tubs and room service, it was a bit hard for me to get back in the van and continue driving north, back toward home, but these views helped...
We stopped in Mulege on the return journey, a cool little oasis town where the Rio Mulege joins the Sea of Cortez. We even managed to get the van stuck in the soft sand!
It was on a side street in Mulege where Zoey "found" us. We were walking back to the van and this tiny puppy popped out of the bushes and started following us. We looked her over, no collar, covered in thousands of fleas and ticks, and decided we should rescue her.
So Hal ran around and managed to find flea and tick dog shampoo and we loaded Zoey into the van and gave her a flea bath with our camelbak on the side of the road.
And now we have two dogs, oh goodness!
We visited a great vet in San Felipe and got Zoey a dewormer and more flea and tick control.
Then the dogs sat on our laps as we drove back across the border into the US, no problems.
75 total hours spent driving, covering over 3,600 miles.
We would highly recommend this trip to anyone, especially if you can take two weeks to do it.
I wish we could have had one or two more days to break up the driving, but regardless it was a wonderful vacation/adventure.
We have tons more info on the towns, road conditions, where to stay, etc, so please comment or email us and we will happily share with you!
Thanks for reading and adios!
