Hell’s Half Acre

We are camped in the desert tonight.  It is a teeny town; teeny even by Baja standards.  The stars are bright white and twinkling and it seems that the sky is absolutely filled to capacity with them.  The trailer is buffeted by the gusty winds, but we are warm and secure and I have Ellen’s [...]

Kind of a boring day; I don’t even feel like taking the time to document it.  If nothing else, I have lots of pictures (especially of the kids, for Papa and Tata) so here goes.
Left Sordo Mudo about 10am and headed down MX1 for the first time.  Ensenada was pretty tranquil – good thing we [...]

We left Potrero at 11am and are in Rancho Sordo Mudo at 1:30.  Best day for travelling so far; the kids played before we left; are playing now; and we got where we wanted to go.  Border crossing was super easy except I wanted to get a vehicle permit (for when we cross over to [...]

The sun the sun the sun the SUN!!! It FOUND us!!!!  We’re back to turtlenecks and jeans (instead of shorts and short-sleeved shirts) but windows and doors are open.  Kids are bike riding and I’m (what else??) cleaning up.  Jamie will head off for a bike ride and I’ll take the kids to the library [...]

I’m already tired of the cold and can’t wait to get to points south.  Jamie is in his element; surrounded by beautiful, alternately lush and pocketed with bolders, mountains, but it is COLD here!  In San Felipe we’d get some froggy mornings, but within an hour or so, it would have broken up and we’d [...]

The night brought rain and morning was misty.  Off we headed to Tecate and wouldn’t you know it, our border luck held and I once again, backed out of a lane.  We were following the signs through Tecate for San Diego and 94, but ended up at a truck cargo lane for the border (truck [...]

Jesse said "go forward" but I counted the turns and it was 5 turns going forward and 3 turns going back and I was sure backing out of the camp would be easier than going forward, but by the time we were ready to go there were about 20 people milling about watching the fun [...]

(Chrissy; you might want to snooze through this one; assuming you don’t do that through all of them.  Oh, and we got the sesame oil.  Thanks SO much (ppphhhhbbbtttt))
Someone asked me "why did you decide to go traveling? Do y’all have a goal in mind? Or are you traveling until you get where you’re going? [...]

Yesterday we were coming back from town after having purchased some recuerdos for our friends.  Naturally this means purchasing crap for the kids too.  Ellen and Sissy decided on tiny little tequila bottles (fridge magnets).  On the way back, Jamie asked Ellen, "what would happen if Becky drank one of those bottles?" to which she [...]

Here’s a picture of tonight’s sunset; with Dad taking a picture of the wrong thing.    It was much prettier in person; you could see the whole mountain and the moon (see the white thing in the clouds?) looked MUCH larger.  Second picture is of the crowd (just those of us at the campground) [...]