Agua Caliente, cerveza fria, y buenas olas!!

Hey All!!

Buenas dias de Cabo!! That´s right, we´ve finally arrived at the southern tip of Baja California.

Initially, we were planning on making Cabo in about three to four days, but great surf and free camping held us up for a few nights.

The great thing about Baja is that camping is free on any government arroyo and we all know how much the two of us enjoy a good bargain. Not only is the camping free, but we´ve found ourselves only a 30 second walk away from the ocean´s waterline (if we had a 4x4 we´d be able to camp ON the beach).

The first north swell of the winter barrelled into Baja just about the same time we did. We were able to get some great rights at Punto Conejo and Los Cerritos. We weren´t the only ones who were able to get in on this action. Turns out that Baja California Sur (BCS) turns into British Columbia South during the winter months. We´ve had the privelidge of running into a number of Canadians down here. They´re always good people!

Speaking of the great Canadia population...we found ourselves in a bit of a snag a few nights ago. Up until this incident that I´m about to tell you, we had been forging unfamiliar dirt roads in the pitch dark. For some reason we had been having a difficult time arriving at any destination before nightfall. Driving at night in Mexico is a precarious, but on a dirt road at night it´s just downright scarey.

To backtrack a bit...for those of you who haven´t spent much time down here in Baja, pretty much any road beside a major highway is dirt. Sometimes hard dirt, sometimes rocky, and sometimes sandy. Sandy is what got us in trouble.

As great as our Vanagon has been, it lacks four wheel drive. Most roads that lead to the beach have some section of sand in them. If you find yourself driving during the day, it´s not too hard to navigate your way around the sandy, soft spots. Night, yeilds a whole different challenge.

We were on our way to an abandoned RV park in San Pedrito well past nightfall. We had found the turn-off to the park in the dark which was half the battle. We were hopefull that we were going to get there, set up camp, and eat dinner in the near future. That was until we found ourselves at a fork in the road. Which one to choose? Always a gamble at night. We bet on the wrong road and found our rear tires half covered in sand and not hard groud for at least 30 feet.

Brandon dug, I held the flashlight, and we both looked for rocks to build bridges out of the sand. Three hours later, we found ourselve still stuck, but about 3 feet away from where we initially bouroughed in. Then, we saw head lights coming towards us on the road. Hooray!! Maybe this person had 4 wheel drive and could get us out!

The only thing this guy did for us was suggest we go to bed and hike into camp in the morning for help...thanks a lot! We took the advice and hit the hay. We got up at sunrise the next day to start working again. About 3 minutes into it, a Dodge diesel 4x4 came rolling our way. YEAH!!

Two Canadians towed us out in about 42 seconds. It was a relief to say the least.

So, since then we´ve been camping and surfing. We`re spending the day in Cabo then heading north to find some affordable accomodation (it´s not cheap here). With any luck we´ll be on the the ferry from La Paz to Topolobampo in a couple days.