Every year for as long as I remember my parents and I would come down to La Salina, in Baja California, for a family vacation. Most of the time we have friends come with us to enjoy the clean beach and the quiet of our house. The day would usually start around 6:30 AM when my friends and I would …
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I really need a bumper sticker on my car that says: “Warning! I brake for exotic tropical trees” and that is exactly what I did a few weeks ago while driving with my friend Sue (a fellow horticulturist) through southern Ensenada. And there she was, how could I miss her? I had to stop and take a photo: the African …
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Lupe, my friend in Mexico for twenty years helped me with Marimba, my first horse. Decades have passed since I bought Marimba, a thirty-eight year old gelding, whose ribs showed through his brown coat because his teeth had grown too long for him to chew alfalfa. I crossed the border to buy alfalfa pellets and he regained his weight. Our …
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I had an experience today that blew my mind. Thumbing through a travel magazine while having a cup of coffee in La Mision, I came across an article on La Bufadora, the blowhole. The writer was extolling the amazing sensation of watching this marine geyser. I got excited because we have a blowhole in Acadia National Park where I come …
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I had the chance this Saturday to stroll along the La Mision Beach with my family. The beach was packed from east of the pay road at the river to the shore line. As I walked along I saw some people had gotten there early enough to get the primo spots. The places next to the palapas, the nice shady …
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God created our beautiful world in seven days and seven nights. I cried wolf seven days and seven nights, plus a few, but who’s counting. Catalina, my mare, was impregnated the first part of March 2013, meaning eleven months later we would have a baby. That brought us to the middle of February, 2014. Catalina started lying down with contractions, …
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There exists a Rosarito that many haven’t seen. A friend of mine, Kevin Collins, offered me the use of an off road motorcycle leading me on a journey east of the coast into the hills and valleys we only see from our car windows while traveling on asphalt roads. We leave Las Olas riding south to merge with the free …
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South to the Tropic of Cancer, that is my Mexico. My travels have been by train, plane, bus, bicycle, and this year by motorcycle. In the past I’ve traveled every year or two, but this time it was four years since my last trip. News in the US and Mexican papers was a concern to everyone, myself included. Cruise ships …
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An abundance of great angling opportunities exist around the entire Baja peninsula, but a few of them can be a little remote and a bit difficult to access from many major tourist centers. Nowhere is this truer than when referring to the offshore waters of Baja’s rugged Pacific coast, a place where the Port of Ensenada is the only major …
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The moment we crossed the breakwater at Marina Coral on our friend Jack’s sport fisher, anticipation was palpable. For years my grandsons Jake and Zachary, respectively 13 and 15 years old, had rhapsodized, “When are we going to Todos?” This was D-day. We were underway to Todos Santos Islands, not to be confused with the also famous town of the …
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