Todo Santos was just an hour or so south of La Paz on the Pacific side of Baja California Sur.  When we first saw the sign, we thought it was only going to be a few run down shacks- similar to the villages we’d seen between Mazatlan and Topolobampo.  We immediately noticed the landscape- thick [...]

After a few days in Mazatlan, we were back on the road, heading north to catch the ferry from Topolobampo to La Paz. We passed a number of small villages. Plenty of fruit stands selling exotic foods, and a few people in the street selling parrots they’d caught and placed in tiny cages. This section [...]

So day 1, we headed out rather early, around 9 am, after a quick Mexican breakfast with Jay’s family.  The country side was thick with palms and tropical brush, interrupted with lengthy mango groves- really far more green and overgrown than I expected.  Tons of cows, and small “towns” with fruit stands on the main [...]