Hurricane John

We are in southern Baja now, in La Paz, waiting for the hurricane to blow thru... Lots of rain but no wind so far. Nice town... The ferry we want to take to the mainland is not running because of the storm so we wait... A nice cafe and nice people. Hanging out with some Swiss guys we met at our hotel. The streets are flooded but that is normal for the rainy season, big winds are expected later today but all is calm now...

So far the Baja phase of our trip has been driven by external factors, My tooth, the heat and now a hurricane! We did have a very nice time in Todos Santos, a small town on the Pacific coast, surfing and camping on the beach, meating people from all over the world... Baja is really a ghost town at this time of year but the locals arer super freindly and we are making the most of it. The hurricane has brought much cooler weather so thats nice...

The trip down the peninsula was fast but fun, the road down the east side of the gulf south of San Felipe was very harsh, not really 4 wheel drive hard but brutally hard road surface, some places just the living rock and washboard surface for 125 miles... We could only go in 1st gear, about 8 miles an hour and the breeze was from behind us at about 8 MPH so extremly hot and tiring... Once we made it to the pacific it was cooler but the road winds back and forth east and west so every few hours we were back on the hot sultry gulf side... Once we found a nice beach on the pacific we stayed until we ran out of water, surfing and slackness all day!

We are both looking forward to getting up into the highlands and also being in cities after the American west and Baja we are tired of the big empty. Just have to wait for the hurricane to pass!