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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
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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
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mddelapa: Last week I started re-reading Steinbeck and Rickett’s Log to the Sea of Cortez, so this MBA post caught my eye. What a dream Baja must have been in 1940. montereybayaquarium: #ThrowbackThursday: Kelp Forest, Rocky Shore, Open Sea. Wonder why our exhibits are arranged by habitat? Local marine biologist Ed Ricketts, the inspiration for “Doc” in Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row,” championed the study of intertidal “zones,” an idea that influenced the design and layout of the … more
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Dinner at Hierbabuena, an organic farm-to-table, open-air restaurant in Pescadero. Only restaurant I’ve ever seen with 100% (34) five-star ratings on TripAdvisor. We’ll make it 35 – wonderful.
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Lunch with EDF Mexico at McFisher’s: Laura, Dana, Artistotele, Cristina, Rafael, Becky and me
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From the amazingly multi-talented Carl Freedman: “Early this morning with the mosquitoes, telescope and camera. Uranus is behind the moon, so it’s a double eclipse.”