my nice little life

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 [...]

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 [...]