my nice little life

Well, we’re back home (earlier than we expected, due to personal considerations).   We’re tan and rested.  We didn’t gain any weight.  And we had a good time.  We spent more money than we had planned.  In fact, we spent more than we had budgeted for the entire month, even though we were only away for [...]

Until this trip, our travels in Mexico have been inexpensive.  Not so Cabo.  We’ve been told that Cabo is one of the most expensive places to vacation in Mexico.  Not much different from home.  Eating out was more expensive than home.  The prices we show here for breakfast and lunch were about the cheapest we [...]

When in Baja, check your shoes before you put them on in the morning.  This area has centipedes and scorpions, both of the poisonous variety.  We’ve only seen dead ones, but they were in the house.  We’ve even scooped a sand crab out of the pool. Another water hint:  if you can’t drink the water, [...]

On Thursday we made the approximately three hour drive from San Jose del Cabo to La Paz.  La Paz is on the eastern coast of Baja, on the Sea of Cortez.  If you remember, we were originally going to make the drive from Cabo San Lucas to La Paz.  That drive was said to be [...]

 We asked the waitress at La Cava Trece is she knew of any simple, inexpensive hotels nearby and the place she recommended was $20 a night and just around the corner.  When we saw it later we saw that it was basically a  dive.  Claudia, one of the owners of La Cava Trece, recommended el ángel [...]

After looking at the menus of quite a few of the restaurants across the street from the malecon and not finding anything (or any price) that interested us other than a couple of open air views, we decided to go “one block off”.  Sure enough, the restaurants were smaller and the prices were half.  We liked the look [...]

Of the three major towns we’ve visited here – San Jose del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas and La Paz – we like La Paz the best.  Of course that’s after spending only one day there, but we really liked it. It’s a city, of course.  About 200,000 people, we think.  But the area down around [...]

We’ve eaten at La Sirena three times.  Twice for breakfast and once for lunch.  We’ve eaten out a total  of 7 times and 3 of those were just beers and nachos.  Makes you think we like La Sirena, hunh?  Well, the food is excellent.  Made from scratch.  And cheap, compared to other places here.  And no one [...]

It’s not uncommon for us to have a bit of upset stomach when  we travel – and that’s for traveling anywhere – even when we go to Florida to visit Sherry’s dad.  Usually it’s not so much a question of germs, or “bad germs”, but just different germs.  Every place has it’s own set of [...]

We thought we’d drive to La Paz Mexico.  People tell us that it’s about 2.5 hrs from San Jose del Cabo (Google maps confirmed that), and that there are two ways to get there – the straight highway west to Cabo San Lucas and then north on hiway 19, and the shorter more mountainous route [...]