Tuesday, August 7, 2007

San Jose del Cabo

Here we are, at the southern tip of Baja California. We arrived here Saturday night, slept on the beach, then went about trying to find the home of Jeremiah and Shellie Blackwell, friends from San Luis Obispo who moved down here a little over a year ago. We found them after driving around there neighborhood a bit, (they bought Camille´s old car before they left, so we looked around for that), and have been camping in their short driveway since then. They have been incredibly gracious, as they have two young sons, (Owen, 2 and a half years old, and Elias, who is 9 months), and we will likely try to find a place to camp tomorrow and the next night on the beach so as to get out of their hair a bit. We have plans to go camping with them up the east cape of Baja this weekend, so we won´t be driving back up, but we could do to give them a bit more space.
Overall, though, our time here has been great. It is definitely an interesting town, with a strange mix of old fishing village being quickly changed into high end condos. I´m not sure if I have ever seen a place with so much construction happening so quickly, but I guess that is how it works. Jeremiah and Shellie actually have a piece of property on which they are living in a trailer, (of high quality), and plan to being on the foundation of their new home in the next couple of weeks.
It has definitely been a new weather change for us these last few days. This part of Baja is much more humid and warm than the rest of the trip down has been, so the last couple of days have been fairly uncomfortable. The nights have been just cool enough to sleep, and last night we actually did get some sleep as we finally figured out how the mosquitoes were getting through our net curtains and were able to stop them.
We´d better get going, as we have volunteered to watch the kids tonight and we need to get a little dinner first before we head back to their place. We´ll keep you all updated, but for now all is going well.

Ryan and Camille

2 comments:

Garth said...

Hey there you two tan lovebirds. Its great to hear how you are doing. I'm hoping that you will find some great surf down there, as it would be a shame to have no use for those surfboards stored in that beautiful wooden box atop your beast of a truck. That was quite a cheezy sentence. Holly and I miss you guys and look forward to seeing you soon! Hope your journey has some exciting things in store for you still...

2wildtrout said...

We miss you both! (I'm using RJ's name to leave you this message). Give all the Blackwell's our love and an extra hug to the little guys. Looking forward to you coming back and spending some time together, but I am so glad you're having this experience.