Monday, February 15, 2021
Travel Day | Guerrero Negro to Santa Rosalía, Mexico
ODOMETER: 84,362 | TODAY’S MILES: 136 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 6,417
by Jana
Jack and Stellie had school in the morning so we had to wait to leave until 1pm so that they wouldn’t lose internet connection. The way from Guerrero Negro across to the east coast’s Santa Rosalia was shorter than yesterday’s trip, but no less treacherous. After a short stint through the desert on a sandy road, we came out at a pretty remote feeling RV Park on the beach. We were welcomed warmly by its long-term residents. After a long chat with John, a 70-something man from Oregon who has been coming here for many years, we got some invaluable information that spurred us to re-evaluate our original plan to stay in Todos Santos for several weeks and do some more research to find some place less touristy and more quaint. We settled on Baja Sunrise, a beachfront RV park in Los Barriles about 400 miles south of Santa Rosalia, on the east coast of Baja.
After a long chat with John, a 70-something man from Oregon who has been coming here for many years, we got some invaluable information that spurred us to re-evaluate our original plan to stay in Todos Santos for several weeks and do some more research to find some place less touristy and more quaint.
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