Mexico!

Today we reached Mulege, Baja Sur (south) after cycling 60 kms from
Santa Rosalia with a fantastic tail wind making it almost too easy.
We had spent the previous three days on the bus first from Tijuana to
San Quintin, then to Guerro Negro, then into Santa Rosalia. The bus
rides were considerably better than riding with horrendous Greyhound
but it just felt wrong missing out on all the amazing scenery that we
whizzed by. However, we are far enough south now that it no longer
gets cold at night and the water is nice and warm. We head to the
beaches 15 kms south on the Bahia de Concepcion tomorrow.

So far we have been very impressed with Baja; the people are so
friendly, the food excellent, the landscape surreal, and the expenses
low! It is a very easy place to travel even though we lack usable
Spanish and very few locals speak any English; it would be an ideal
place to backpack around though no one seems to be doing so.
Yesterday we shared the bus with a couple from Revelstoke who are
cycling from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas (the southern tip of Baja),
apart from them we had not seen any travelers save for those in large
trucks and RVs from the US. We should start to run into many more
foreigners now as Baja Sur is much more of a tourist destination than
the northern state.

The roads in Baja are generally very narrow without much, if any,
shoulder, however, there is very little traffic and we both really
enjoyed today's cycle. Most of the time we had the road to ourselves,
occasionally being passed by cars that pulled way over, and a just a
couple times we stopped as transport trucks passed in both directions.

Mulege was hit by a huge hurricane, Jimena, in early September and the
damage is visible everywhere. It is eerily similar to the situation I
witnessed in Thailand 4 months after the tsunami swept through.

-Brydone

PS - look closely at the photo of the boys with the stroller...