Still in Southern California...

But not for long!!!

Okay, the whole month of February is missing - I realize that and have a draft started, but so much happened!! I have photos and lots of stories to tell - moving out of our apartment and into the tiny storage with the big old truck, working on the Jeep installing base plate for towing and wiring braking system, redecorating the interior of the moho, errands and more errands, visiting family and friends - it's been very busy!! But we are ~almost~ finally ready to head over the border, so I thought I should do a quick update to the blog before we do.

First, one more excuse besides the busy one - my laptop died and we've sent it off to the Apple Mothership for a new hard drive, so updating the blog depends on when I can wrench Devin's laptop from him - ha. We'll pick mine up after Baja, so updates should start being more frequent. We'll at least attempt to post photos on Picasa or other photo sites and link to them from here!

Right now we are in San Diego at Campland on the Bay, trying to wrap everything up! The RV was in the shop at Camping World most of the day Saturday getting the SmartTire monitoring system fixed, and yesterday we ran more errands. Today we got new off-road tires for the Jeep and will take care of other items we forgot or were thinking of not doing - like putting together a camping kit for Baja in the Jeep. I just found out the 5th tire (spare) for the Jeep won't be ready till around 4pm, so it looks like we may stay here one more night, then head over to Tecate in the morning.

We plan to camp at Potrero County Park which is right across the border from Tecate, and head over to Tecate in the Jeep to explore and get our FMTs and visit the Tecate Brewery, scout the route through town, etc. Then the next day we'll cross in the moho with the Jeep in tow, and head straight down to Ensenada. A night or two in Ensenada, then on to points south - we look forward to exploring the Catavina area, Vizcaino Penninsula, Bahia de los Angeles, Scammons Lagoon, San Ignacio, Mulege, Bahia de Concepcion, and on down to Cabo and Land's End. Hope to find places to kayak and snorkel, side trips in the Jeep, take lots of photos, improve our Spanish, and just relax!!

More updates on the lost month, and on the coming weeks in Baja, as time and internet connections allow!

Oh, email if you'd like to hear from us in person - a lot of my contacts are on my laptop and not in online address books! And our phones may work in Baja - we updated to the North America's Choice plan which includes international roaming and long distance, so you can call either of us, too!