California Cattle

Where do In-&-Out burgers come from?

Harris Ranch feedlot

Holy smells like shit batman

100,000 cows

Long Long way from free roaming Baja desert cattle...

Ford Flex

3.5 Litre V6 AWD

13000 kms in 3 months. 1200 kms on the last day of the trip, 

Redding California to Vancouver Canada no worries...

Fully loaded:

2400 rpms, 6th gear = 125 kph (80MPH)  

easy drivin' (on 91 octane, 87 drops gears noticeably quicker)

Home Base SJD

South of Mulege

Camping Laguna Ojo de Liebre

South of Tijuana

Hey Ford, for my next trip how about lending me a new aluminum
F-150,
Raptor,
please?

Sunrise Lomas De La Jolla

Every day in Los Cabos is a joy to wake up to.  A swim for breakfast.

My last day... :(

Laguna Ojo De Liebre

Las Viudas beach

Lord of the Wind, Los Barriles BCS Mexico

Racing Friday Jan 25 2014

These are the "bikes" I want to ride around baja!

Todos Santos Music Festival

Birding in the Estero

Exercising my Left eyeball

Living off your bike

I thought living out of my car (and hotels!) would be hard, until I met these cyclists.

How many horsepower is a human?

Loreto Veterinarian

Bahia El Coyote

So when we got to the Sea of Cortez just south of Mulege I finally let the dogs out.  At Bahia El Coyote, they hit the water with glee.  Willow racing for her ball, prancing into the ocean.  Ruby, ever the bulldog, hit her in the back haunches like a linebacker.  She cut her belly open 3 inches.

No taping this one up.  I can see the fat!

We rushed to Loreto and found this vet.  Actually I asked a local cop where the Vet was.  He drove me there.  It was 2pm and they were closed until 3pm.  I asked if there was another vet around.  My spanish not being that good, I put $10 in his hand.  I got a police escort to the other vet.

Dassia was awesome.  She put Willow under for only a few minutes and gave her 8 stitches.

Patas Y Pies (Legs and Feet) Clinica Veterinaria (small dog specialist)

Tel.: 13-5-02-77  Cel.: 613-114-0483

GPS

Loreto, Baja California Sur

Mexico

26° 1.212', -111° 21.032'

Turn off the HWY (1) at the paint store (COMEX)  ARCO IRIS go NE towards water.
1st right calle ALBORADA two blocks SE on the right side just past calle AURORA.

$500 pesos for the surgery plus 80 pesos for 8 painkillers...
I happily gave her $700 pesos (less than $60 CDN.)
Slowed us down but that`s OK.  We stayed at a pet friendly hotel in Loreto.

www.hotelangra.com

Hotel Angra. 670 pesos.  Super clean and secure.

On calle Benito Juarez after Ignacio Allende before Marques De Leon across from the Pemex.
GPS

Loreto, Baja California Sur

Mexico

26° 0.482', -111° 21.027'

Feliz Navidad Los Cabos Beach Video

Going back to Cabo, Cabo, Cabo, I`m going back to Cabo

Her bikini small, heals tall, she said she liked the ocean.

 actually a one piece and flip flops, but she did love the ocean.

San Jose Del Cabo Estero and Marina

Baja Markers Directives 2010

The Return to San Jose Del Cabo

1 CDN$ = 0.9830 USD$ Flirting with Parity UP 14.4%

1 CDN$ = 12.06 Pesos UP 37.73%

Litre of 87 octane = 114.9 cents/litre UP 31.46%

2006: One Canadian Dollar = .859 US$

One Canadian Dollar = 8.756 Peso$

Litre of 87 octane = 87.4 cents/litre

The Wife and I are going, for our 1st Anniversary, to the Barcelo Los Cabos San Jose Deluxe!

Go North Dark Man

My tan and I are heading home.

Packed my stuff and Willoughby
into the Explorer
and Norte we go.

Ran into Rain in Fresno California.

Its raining here in Redding California.

Its raining all the way up the I5 to
the Great White North.

I had to put socks and underwear on.

Brrrrrr...

I've travelled to Land's End,

Crossed the Salt Flats of ESSA,



watched the sun rise over
The Laguna De Liebre Oro,

seen a rainbow appear
in the mist of an exhale,

and looked into the curious eye of
a majestic Grey whale.





Today, I lived a full day.

Snorkeling

@ Santa Marie Bay

iPods Rock

At least mine does
plugged into the car audio system, slick.
8 days of uninterupted music.

Perfecto por La Baja.

Kinda anti-social, elitist,
introverted little device. Nice.

Never used one before. Intuitive interface.
Click, spin, click.
Awesome tactile sensation. SLICK.
Joe like.
Make Joe smile.

I've been using iTunes for years,
and it was as simple as plugging my new
technotoy into a USB2.0 slot on my laptop.

It was already charged, and took 1 1/2 hours
to transfer 20g of music, 2508 songs, mostly
320kb mp3, and 25 AAC files from the itunes store.
Currently, i've skimmed 438 albums out
of my 700 CD collection.
It is 2 whole bookcases of cds in my shirt pocket.

Got one video: U2's
Where the Streets Have No Name
just so i could watch one on that tiny screen.
Cool that it could do it but not
what i want or really need.

Video is a memory and battery pig...


Put all my blog photos on my iPod. Slick.
Way better than wallet photos.

The thing is tiny. Light. I could lose it.

O, Yeah, It also sounds excellent.
Loud enough to make ya deaf.
Ear buds will make you anti-social.
I prefer speakers, lotsa speakers,
and amps, too.

I prefer it as a large scale portable storage device
plugged into the car and home audio systems.
30G Digital source. Nice.

Would've got the 60G but Best Buy was sold out of'em.

Beach Rescue

Gringo Beach Services

I've rescued 2 vehicles out of the sand at Tule beach.

Arturo, a Butler @ the Palmilla resort, had been there since the day before. He had come back with a shovel, some planks and dos amigos but he was highside on a large rock.

4X4 +
a 20ft tow rope,
have come in handy,

Tied up and dragged'em out.

Two nights ago, came across

a pickup truck with a Mexican couple trying
to have a sunset picnic on the beach.
Dude had backed up into soft sand and just
sunk the back end and spun the tires deep.

Tied up and dragged'em out.

Roger said it made up for watching figure skating.

Bad Blogger

Standard issue Cabo Sunrise


Sorry, I've been getting into a rhythm of doing nothing.
No watch, no phone, no internet...
Watch the sunrise,
Swim in the pool, eat, sleep,
take the dog to the beach all afternoon,
read, eat, sleep, repeat


Buzzards have been buzzing me everyday



Saturday night I went to Todos Santos with Roger and Willow.
We went to a Reggae festival on the beach.

Beer was 15 pesos.
Roger paid for 2 beers with a 50 peso note.
His change was 5 pesos and another beer :)
Viva Mexico

Santa Marie

We went to Cabo San Lucas to swim with the Dolphins, but the aquarium was still under construction...

Playa Chileno

Tibor and Carmela under the 16ft fish scale


Willow and I are the shadows in the foreground.

I photoshopped out 2 people in the background.

Is that wrong?