We crossed the border through Tecate with a brief stop for a cursory inspection and then headed south to Baja’s wine country – Valle de Guadalupe. We stopped last spring on the way back to the US and fell in love with this spot. For $10 a night donation, we stayed at Rancho Sordo Mundo’s […]
Wine
Port Townsend
For the second year in a row, our Glacier National Park plans were dashed by wildfires. Plan B was to head somewhere on the coast to wait it out and experience usually reliably great weather in Septemeber. We had wanted to get back to La Conner and Port Townsend in Washington and found space at […]
Valle de Guadalupe, Baja Wine Country
For our last stop in Baja we headed to the beautiful Valle de Guadalupe from San Felipe. Highway 3 was a little rough in the desert but the bigger potholes were patched and passable. Once we got closer to Ensenada the last section of the highway was pretty twisty with cars passing you on blind […]
Sedona/Cottonwood
From Goosenecks we headed Southwest to Cottonwood outside of Sedona. We had stayed last Spring at the Verde Valley Thousand Trails and it was one of our favorites but a little hard to get into because many people feel the same way. Jaime managed to get us a two week reservation which went by pretty quickly. […]
South Bay and Santa Ynez
We left Palm Springs and the Bago behind after Thanksgiving to stay with friends in LA and Santa Ynez. It was great seeing friends we haven’t seen in awhile. I took my inflatable out with our friend Chris in Redondo. He’s on my old board I sold him before we left town. Jerry is a […]
Sonoma and Russian River
We finally left Oregon with our hopes of a pleasant Fall dashed by record rain. It had been a great summer but it was time to move South. We drove through the redwoods stopping at the Avenue of the Giants. We decided to break up our drive and stay overnight at the Bear River Casino south […]