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Dinner at Bandidos and Baja Grand Prix street scene. Bandidos is a burger joint, La Paz’s version of American Graffiti with outdoor tables, a grill made out of the engine and hood of an old Chevy, and American blues and rock music from the 1950s-1980s (mostly the early 1960s). Charlie’s Mexican classmates swear it’s the best place for burgers, so of course that’s what I had to get. Mistake. Their burgers are topped with plasticized … more
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Dinner at El Mural – currently the #1 ranked restaurant in La Paz, according to TripAdvisor with 14 five-star reviews. I didn’t want to be the first to downgrade it because the people who run it are so nice and the interior is charming. But between friends, it’s very medicre, and that would be kind. The Margarita pizza featured La Paz’s universally tasteless tomatoes and a not very exciting cheese. The house pasta was even more … more
Even in my current state – physiologically weakened as it is – this passage from Wikipedia struck me as funny. There are a number of colloquialisms for travelers’ diarrhea contracted in various localities, such as “Montezuma’s revenge”, “turistas”,[27] or “Aztec two step” in Mexico; and “Pharaoh’s Revenge,” “mummy’s tummy,” or “Cairo two-step” in Egypt. Many other colorful synonyms exist in other regions of the world, some of which have found their way into the arts and literature. For example, Aamir Khan titled his 2011 Hindi … more
Live in anticipation, gathering stories and memories. New research builds on the vogue mantra of behavioral economics.
“Over the past decade, an abundance of psychology research has shown that experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions.” The reasons manifold …
Which helps explain why we’re living in La Paz.
Whew, it’s been a rough couple of days. Sunday night Becky came down with Montezuma’s Revenge. Fever, shakes, vomiting, and diarrhea. She missed her return flight on Monday. I took her to a local doctor that night and he prescribed an antibiotic, immodium, and a pain killer. On Tuesday, without any food for 2 days and with minimal hydration, she boarded a flight at 11 am in La Paz that landed in San Francisco at … more
Por las fotos que veo aquí, ya sé que les va muy bien allí en La Paz, BCS. Por supuesto los jugadores de volibol aquí en la playa de Carmel extrañamos mucho a ustedes. Cuídense mucho, mucho, mucho muchachotes.
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Espiritu Santo Island – snorkeling with sea lions, hunting for almejas chocolatas, diving for oysters, observing a frigate bird colony, finding a herd of green turtles, making new friends (Joe and Emmie, Saul and Jorge, Claudia and the other Brazilian girl, and Eduardo the captain).
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Festival del Dia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Todos Santos: Festival of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the patron saint of Todos Santos. This date is celebrated as the founding of the town of Todos Santos. There are usually 5 days of activities, including a fair and live music in the plaza, most of the week of the 12th. There is dancing to live music in the evenings on the zocalo. And lots of food and … more
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Todos Santos Inn, “Like the setting of a Gabriel García Márquez novel, the brick and adobe walls of the Todos Santos Inn echo with the possibility something magical could happen here.” Outside Magazine
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Signs and banners around Todos Santos in opposition to Los Cardones, an open-pit, gold mine proposed … on the edge of the Sierra de La Laguna Biosphere. The Sierra de La Laguna Biosphere is recognized by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a world biosphere. It is a mountain range that lies at the southern end of BCS. It is home to distinctive flora and fauna and has many endemic species … more