More Adventures in Cabo

It is tricky to rent and drive a car in Mexico when the entire Baja is preparing for the G20 in July. After finally renting one for a couple of days we set out on our most recommended path to Todos Santos. Nearly every night the gringos in town compare notes on the best eateries, beaches, villages, and so forth. We have sat in on so many of these discussions (often at the hot tub each night) and have found that Hotel California keeps coming up. This is the hotel from that old Eagles song, though that too brings up more debate. On our way to Todos we planned to stop at a beach about 11km south of there and let our little one stretch his legs and play on the sand a bit. Well after going through a half dozen frightening checkpoints where scary men wearing black walk out onto the highway and point at your car and direct you to the side of the road we were a little shook up. These men were everywhere. They carried assault rifles, or some type of scary looking gun, and wore bullet proof vests. Also the highway was actually a half dirt half concrete road with no definite boundary between lanes. Thankfully we had a DVD player to keep Sebastian happy, but it only worked the way there.

It took so much longer than google maps estimated and was nauseating. Thankfully we found the random bumpy dirt road to the beach (playa Los Cerritos) and hit the jackpot of all beautiful beaches. We watched about 3 dozen amazing surfers dodge rocks on the waves, and ate another delicious lunch of shrimp stuffed avocados while our son played. This place was so cool. But it turned late and there was no way we were going to fit in another stop. It is so hard to remember that when everyone recommends these beaches and restaurants that they certainly don't have a toddler with them who is still in diapers. 2 year olds aren't too excited about lounging in a chair and watching the surf.
Later that night we ate on an organic farm (Floras Farm) in the desert which was totally new for me. The brought me my salad that had carrots, avocado, jicama, Swiss chard, lettuce and tomatoes from the veggie rows only 10 meters away. So fresh and delish! We have truly been spoiled with the food here in San Jose del Cabo.

At this point we have reached a bit of a bump in the road because my husband had to take a last minute flight home to MN due to some tech issues, so my son and I have gone back to walking the hills of our neighborhood. We hope to return to our scheduled vacation in the next few days once my dh returns with a couple more laptops since he is still developing iOS apps while we are here. Yes, that means I am writing this on an iPad which is insane since the touch screen annoys me and the images are wonky. I hope before this trip is over I will be blogging about a future trip to the Baja mountains which I am planning for next weekend. Fingers crossed.