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January 25, 2024January 25, 2024

Scenes from a long bus ride around Baja California Sur (part one)

We’re here in Loreto now at an absolutely gorgeous hotel. Here’s the view from our room: But getting here? Well it was one long day. Here’s your pictorial story. We left from San Ignacio this morning. It’s a tiny little village: San Ignacio offers a community electricity/charging station on the main square: Ron’s Hokas met […]

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January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

I finally meet my whale

Doesn’t it seem like it’s taking me forever to get you some actual whale footage? I promise you that it’s an easier wait for you at home on your couches than it is for me on the Road Scholar bus. Bus trips in Europe are broken up by fantastic road side stops – cafes with […]

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January 22, 2024January 22, 2024

The educational physics of a long bus ride

We drove south from Ensenada yesterday – 230 miles to the middle of nowhere – and stopped for the night in a town called Catavina. The Hotel Mision Catavina is a beautiful step back in time to the 1950s, with large, very basic, rooms that surround a courtyard with a pool: Almost the entire 230 […]

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January 20, 2024January 20, 2024

Newfound wine appreciation in Ensenada

We stopped for a day in Ensenada to tour the Guadalupe Valley – it actually sits 70 miles south of the Tijuana border crossing – and it’s the premier and dominant site for most of Mexico’s wine production. There are more than 180 wineries and they account for about 80% of the entire wine production […]

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