Category: Baja California

Being alone felt right—clear head, no noise. But after a while, the quiet got old. I went back to Orange County. A few months there and I was climbing the walls. Baja was the only fix—empty roads, warm water, cheap beer, and freedom. I spent three weeks heading south, rang in the New Year in…

Living in San Jo, there’s always something to do. The weekends start off with Thursday’s Art Walk and run well into the wee hours of Monday morning. Developing new friendships with local people and one gringa, Amanda. Saturday Edu and me hit up the Organic Market. The market is where one would source authentic, craft…

I get asked a lot where my favorite spots are in Baja. It’s an easy answer; the East Cape. The surf report looked excellent so I went out to Fortuna for a few days to get sun fucked and salty. When the waves finally showed up they showed up.  By afternoon it was double overhead. …

Waking up in Cabo San Lucas flipping a coin is not usually how I like to start my day off. Falcon to the west, ruins to the east. I’m all out of road and can’t travel any further south. I need somewhere to go. Later rather than sooner I will find myself back in La…

On the last day of the swell it was time to say adios to the East Cape and finish the last few kilometers of the peninsula. The Cape was definitely one of my favorite places in Baja. The sun said buenos dias through the back doors of the van every morning. I had miles of…

Arriving in La Paz the evening before I tried to take in as much as I could that night. The two hottest cities so far have been Loreto and La Paz by a long shot. The temps are already breaking the 90’s by 10 am usually and with no winds it can be unbearable later…

Honestly, leaving Loreto was pretty hard but I knew that if I didn’t it could get pretty expensive hanging out with the girls. There’s also this awesome feeling that I get when I start wandering down another unknown path. So it was time to leave. About three hours and on the opposite side of the…

I don’t really know how to sum up Loreto. After a few weeks of camping I decided to stop and stay at an RV camp site, Riviera Del Mar. All I wanted to do was clean up some dirty dishes, get some laundry done, check email and maybe find a car wash the next day.…

After taking in some of the layout and beauty of San Ignacio it was time to press further South. The first stop was Santa Rosalia, and mining town that is bursting with activity. Walking Riley through the streets in search of pesos was pretty amusing. Everywhere I stoped local people had their cameras out snapping…

As we made our way towards Baja Sur we stopped over in San Ignacio for the evening. San Ignacio is a beautiful palm oasis town that is probably most known for the grey whales that give birth in the near by lagoon during the winter months. We shacked up at the Rice and Beans restaurant…

Just outside of El Rosario is a point break called Punta Baja. Baja is a pilgrimage for regular footers in search of long sweeping rights with off shore winds. I checked the reports in El Rosario the evening before and it looked promising. Waist to shoulder high with light offshores, it was just enough to…