As Jerry and Linda our caravan friends say their goodbys and start heading north back to Loreto. The WeOverlander Team headed back on MEX 1 out of Bahia Agua Verde and set our compass south west to the Pacific side. After some twists and turns the road mellowed out leaving the Sierra La Giganta mountain range as we drive long straight stretches of farmland. Small farms dot the road while we travel through fields of corn, radishes, peppers, cotton, potatoes and alfalfa. On MEX 1 we arrive at the small town of Ciudad Insurgents. The road turns due south towards Ciudad Constitucion a larger city than Insurgents complete with a airfield mostly for crop dusting, but I'm sure you can catch a small aircraft to a larger city like La Paz or Loreto. Driving through Ciudad Constitucion reminded me a lot like parts of working class Caracas Venezuela back in the late 80's.
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| Streets of Todos Santos |
The streets were clean and everyone was doing business, plenty of shops and businesses of all types with commerce moving in and out of the city. We stopped for lunch at a sidewalk cart and ordered the days special. For $55mx 5 small oval taco- like meat fold overs, served with a cup of hot consume and a refresco, not bad. The price was right and they had some great hot sauce. After a quick survey of the city a trip to the bank for some pesos then we headed west to San Carlos on BCS 22.
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| Bougainvillea cascading entrances to Cafe Todos Santos |
The road leads straight out of town as we traveled through some scattered orange groves with grapefruits and limon.
San Carlos is located on the
Pacific and we were hoping to get a little more time on the Pacific coast.
BCS 22 was like Osprey central every 500 meters was a occupied nest cruising down this stretch of roadway. Pulling into
San Carlos the wind was blowing, kite boarding surfing and whale watching are the main draws.
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| Garden art |
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| Cafe Todos Santos |
Tucked behind barrier islands we were hoping for something different. The small town was friendly with only a handful of places to stay we chose a camp spot right on the water with hook-ups and hot showers. We ate at the local pub even though the wind was blowing all night we got a good nights sleep. In the early morning after coffee the wind was still up and we decided to pull stakes. Making our way to
Todos Santos some 347klm away also on the Pacific coast,
West Cape of Baja. Leaving
San Carlos put us back on
BCS 22 and over to
Ciudad Constitucion were we had breaky at a really nice little spot before pushing on to
Todos Santos.
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| Resident gate Todos Santos |
MEX 1 lead us south all the way to
La Paz on the
Mar de Cortez. We would bypassed
La Paz only to enter when we returned north to catch the ferry over to mainland Mexico, but for now were headed south to
Todos Santos. MEX 1 eventually connected to BCS 19 about 25klm south of
La Paz as we drove 66klm into
Todos Santos. Around 3pm we entered this fancy little town on the
West Cape of Baja also designated as a Pueblo Magico with plenty of cool upscale joints to eat and many great little local spots too.
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| Rice throwing wedding party |
During our
Todos Santos visit in the historic district at the
Teatro Marquez de Leon a Mexican film festival was showing, plenty of gallery hoping with the abundance of local art and not so local artists. Regional baseball action at the local ball field, a live concert performance in the streets with fireworks and street vendors hawking there wares.
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| Base camp Todos Santos |
We even were a witnessed to a wedding party at the
Inglesa Nuestra Senora del Pilar. We stayed here 4 nights at a dusty little rickety RV camp within walking distance to town. Late at night you could hear the crashing of the waves coming on shore 3.5klm away in between the play by play action at the ball field.
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| Jason and Carmela |
Jason our camp neighbor was a young gentleman traveling on a dirt bike from
Oregon with a 3 month old stray dog he adopted, named Carmela such a little cutie. The dog!! It was hard not to spoil her she was a bundle for sure we even went to the local vet and bought her some chew bones. Lots of expats live here off the radar, they seem to be mostly from the
Pacific Northwest, California and
Canada. Doctors are busy in these parts still making house calls with the large number of aging expats.
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| Resident gate Todos Santos |
The streets were filled with tourists eating ice cream and browsing souvenir shops, heck we were eating ice cream too, Guyabana was my favorite so freaking tasty and tangy. I can still taste it!!
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| Beach road to El Pescador |
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| Looking back on to beach road |
Pulling up stakes we headed out of town south on
BCS 19 along the
Pacific coast through
El Pescador on our way to
San Jose del Cabo BCS.
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| El Pescador beach |
Hope to see you on the Trail!!
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As Jerry and Linda our caravan friends say their goodbys and start heading north back to Loreto. The WeOverlander Team headed back on MEX 1 out of Bahia Agua Verde and set our compass south west to the Pacific side. After some twists and turns the road mellowed out leaving the Sierra La Giganta mountain range as we drive long straight stretches of farmland. Small farms dot the road while we travel through fields of corn, radishes, peppers, cotton, potatoes and alfalfa. On MEX 1 we arrive at the small town of Ciudad Insurgents. The road turns due south towards Ciudad Constitucion a larger city than Insurgents complete with a airfield mostly for crop dusting, but I'm sure you can catch a small aircraft to a larger city like La Paz or Loreto. Driving through Ciudad Constitucion reminded me a lot like parts of working class Caracas Venezuela back in the late 80's. 
