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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 […]

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 […]

We made a brief stop in Tijuana and I stepped out onto Avenida Revolucion and was transported right back to my teen years, when, without a passport and without my parents’ knowledge, I would cross the border on foot, jump into a cab, and spend the evening at the various bars. It defies the logic […]

Well, we’re here! We had three days on our own in San Diego to prep for our marine biology debut. The sunset above is from right in front of our Del Mar hotel. Our first warm-up whale watching activity was to drive to a Patagonia store and clear the 40% off sale rack. Then, to […]