• Baja’s Grey Whales

    On the last weekend of February, we made our way back up to the Bahía Concepción and stayed at Playa El Requeson for the workweek. This beach is unique because it’s a spit with water on two sides. We liked that a lot of locals used this beach, as opposed to Playa Santispac where we stayed on the way down the peninsula. Next, we moved back to Mario’s RV Park in Guerrero Negro for the weekend so that we could go whale watching in the Laguna Ojo de Liebre, one of 3 lagoons on the Pacific side of Baja where grey whales migrate from Alaska to the warm waters of…

  • From the Border to the Bahía Concepción, Mexico

    This story begins over a year ago when Michael told me he wanted to RV down the Baja California Peninsula. At first, I didn’t take him that seriously, but after several months of his daily Spanish lessons on Duolingo, I decided I needed to come up with a plan. We stayed at Sunbeam Lake RV Park in El Centro, CA the week of our planned border crossing at Mexicali East. While in El Centro, we purchased Mexican auto and travel trailer insurance. We walked across the Mexicali West border crossing to get a stamped FMM (basically a tourist visa). We rented a storage unit to empty enough space in the…