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Baja summer 2026, June 19: MT and Sierra la Laguna to La Paz
I was originally thinking that MT and I could camp near Cabo Pulmo after they arrived at the airport, but then I realized it would be in the 80s overnight, so I reserved a night at Rancho Ecológico Sol De Mayo up in the foothills of the Sierra la Laguna outside Santiago, BCS. I didn’t…
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Baja Summer 2026: A couple days in Todos Santos
Waiting for the 19th to pick up MT at the Los Cabos airport, I holed up at the very odd (quirky? charming? annoying?) Perro Surfero hotel in Todos Santos. The jail cell aesthetic of the room, the potential $200 US extra charge for AC, and the usual absolute lack of anything like ADA compliance are…
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Baja Summer 2026: Todos Santos
I decided to hang out in beautiful Todos Santos (which, in the winter, I call Todos Gringos) for a few days while waiting to pick up MT at the Los Cabos airport. The first two nights were camping north of town (see last post), and then, because I needed a more reliable work connection, I…
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Baja Summer 2026, June 16: Loreto to Todos Santos
After a few days in Loreto, I continued south, getting ready to meet MT in San Jose del Cabo on the 19th. Along the way, I took the side road to the vicinity of Puerto San Carlos, to check out the Stenocereus eruca that grows in weird networks of prostrate stems along the sandy ground.…
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Baja Summer 2026: Sierra de la Giganta and Loreto
Above, a favorite tree of the Cape Region of Baja, Lysiloma candidum, a.k.a. Palo Blanco. It’s one of the marker species one starts to see on the hillsides heading south toward the Tropic of Cancer. In this case, I drove from Playa la Perla to Loreto and then up the side road through the Sierra…
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Baja Summer 2026: June 13
Driving south from Santa Rosalillita to Playa la Perla, I realized I was in the area during peak Fouquieria burragei flowering. I had been told that the hills around Mulegé featured many plants of this interesting ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) relative. When it’s not in flower, it’s not easy for me to distinguish it from the…
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