Baja Adventure!!

(2002)

Baja is a jewel of the remaining wild peninsulas. Thank God that in the 1812 war with Mexico we did'n get it. If we did we would have an other Florida on our hand. Bad roads seem to help to keep the place as it is a pristine high desert with a few oasis.
Our Expenses:
gas..........$ 160.00 Round trip from San Francisco and sightseeing about 2,200 miles
food......... 380.00 Baja is not a bargen anymore
lodging.... 350.00 10 days on the road, in LA we stayed with relatives
misc........ 500.00 Entrance fees to museums, drinks, but mostly the cost of the Prehistoric Cave Expedition.
total:...... $1,390.00

Activities: LA (4 nights) Ensenada El Rosario Gurrero Negro San Ignacio San Francisco de la Sierra (Cuevas pinturas 3 nights) San Ignacio Santa Rosalia Muleg? San Ignacio (whale trip) Gurrero Negro Ensenada LA(2 nights)

Places Visited in Baja California:

DATE	PLACE	EVENT	Cost
12-29-2001	Ensenada	Italian Dinner
12-30-2001	San Rosalia	Mission
12-31-2001	Gurrero Negro	Shopping
01-01-2002	San Ignacio	Rice&Beans
01-02-2002	San Francisco de La Sierra	Cave pantings Cuva pintada cueva flecha cueva soledad
01-05-2002	San Ignacio		whales
01-06-2002	Santa Rosalia		museum
01-07-2002	Mulage	beaches
01-08-2002	Gurrero Negro	museum
01-09-2002	Ensenada	Tijuana

Things we missed: This was our 3rd trip to Baja, but Baja is not a place to visit only once. so we?l probably be coming back. At that time I? like to vist Agua Caliente in the mountains and the San Jos?Mission at Loreto.
Opinion: To see the cave paintings and the whales, it is almost mendatory, but as with any ?rip,?objectively, when you visit a place, nothing really happens. Subjectivelly however, we meet the existential symbol for the reality beyond time and space(the unknown), and it changes us. Every trip I take is in fact a search for that other reality. D?ckheim thinks that to seek out faraway places is the searh for unity. That ,I don? know about.
Recommendations: Pre-historic cave paintings, Whale watching
Books: Baja California and the Geography of Hope Joseph Wood Kruch 1950 A History of Lower California Pablo L martines 1960 Cave paintings of Baja California by Hary W Crosby 1977

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To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757- ~ • ~