Some people look at deserts and see, well, deserts, where we like to look at open tracts of land and think about people that have gone through the area hundreds of years ago and dealt with the heat, cactus, rocks and mountains and wonder how they managed. The bulk of Baja is seemingly non-transversable, other than the meager roads that have been etched out of the landscape, and yet people like Herman Hill (Author of Baja’s Hidden Gold) went about his dream of looking for gold as if the land was made for his quest. We truly enjoyed the trip which allowed us to see so many of the faces of the Baja landscape, from the “Cuesta del Infierno” drop to Santa Rosaria to the incredible rolling hills of vegetables and vineyards in the northern interior.
I want to thank both of you, Dan and Lisa, for being knowledgeable and caring hosts for our trip. We were a pretty diverse group and you attended to all of us in a caring and nurturing way, answering all our questions about the history of the towns and people and how the Baja has had a “colourful” past in its diverse political and historical background. The Mexican people we met along the way were, without exception, happy to see us and proud of their wares. They were all eager to show us things that they or their family had made and were not pushy or upset with us if we chose not to partake of their goods. Of course all the travelers we met were in as good a mood as we were so they only embellished our sense of enjoyment in the many special spots we visited, including Santispac, Los Pescadaros and Bahia de Los Angeles which were favourites of ours.
