Mexico

Hello all!

Hope you survived winter. It is improving here

in the Treasure State. It seems spring is coming.

We had to get away...Mexico was the answer :)

Here are some highlights...

Monica's abstract shot...

She said I had too many pictures of her, but not enough of me. So she started taking

them everywhere...flattering or not.

The water was awesome...

 We found this cool beach with a rock ledge just above or below the water

depending on the tide. We set up our chairs out there. Pictures just don't do it

justice.

We went to a National Park called Cabo Pulmo.  The beaches were awesome.

but the road to get there was horrible!

This picture does not describe the poor condition of the road. Wash-boarded, dusty and rough.

It was literally out in the middle of the desert. Hardly any people.

The beaches and the water was nice though.  I would have liked to camp

here, but all the facilities were primitive and there are few trees

and lots of cactus so the "going in the woods" was not an option.

We saw blue or grey whales one morning.  These pelicans were cool.

Doesn't his eye look like he is looking right at ya?

Look at the red on his neck...and his creepy eye

This little guy made a nest in the palapas of our accommodations.

Goats and cows are like the deer here. They wander the streets and 

neighborhoods. You can hear the bells as they approach the house.

We saw this bird in the surf one night.

We did get up early one morning to watch the sun come up on the Sea of Cortez

This was the view from our patio.

We met lots of friends at the local Kingdom Hall. The congregation was Spanish.

Here is the hall.

There is also a small English group. They meet in a little room on the

back of the Kingdom Hall. They have their own Watchtower, School and Bible Study.

We sat in on the Spanish Service Meeting.  I got very little out of it. Makes you

have empathy for the Spanish friends who come to English meetings

here in the states and get little out of it, but come anyway.

This was a giant tree I was amazed by...

Where we were in Baja there are what are called "arroyos." They are basically

dry stream beds that are overwhelmed in the rainy season. The rest of the year

they are dry and run back into canyons. We explored one.  In the

fall this would be filled with water.

This was a little trickle at the end, but apparently at certain times of the year

this is raging with water.

Lots of things changed in Mexico. Monica became an ATV chick.

We took the 4-wheeler everywhere.

To tell you how far south we were, we crossed the Tropic of Cancer. This little roadside

museum type thing was there.

There was also a little chapel-like area.  There is where I 

saw the monkey-on-a-cross.  Not sure what it means :/

We also made cookies in the Sun-Oven

and we made pizza in the pizza oven...

The architecture was cool. Some of the houses looked like they

were out of Star Wars. Doesn't it though???

Monica finally got a picture...look at that sky and water...

and this little crab...

This was where I spent most of the trip...

We both came back refreshed and more convinced than ever that a break

from the winter "does a body good." We are back to 

work. We have a busy spring and looking forward to summer in Montana.

Hope you all are well.

Love you...