Estero Bay is a huge and very fancy resort, catering to Norte Americanos, mostly, I think. It has certainly been the most expensive RV park in which we’ve stayed in Baja. I use the term “Norte Americanos” by the way, since “Americans” isn’t quite accurate – Mexico is part of North/Central America, so in a sense, they are Americans, too. And Canadians are quite plentiful in Baja! But we felt that after our first full day of driving Baja roads, and after so long in preparation for this journey, we needed to land our first day in Mexico somewhere “safe” and have a chance to regroup a bit. It certainly didn’t really feel like Mexico, there. Everyone spoke English, and pretty much everyone staying there, either at the RV park part or the hotel or in the many small houses that are part of it, was American from the US. Still, it was very lovely – with RV spots right on the estuary where we could watch the tides come and go, with shore birds and sea lions on the opposite side. It was quiet and nice! We stayed two nights while we planned our route and stops a little more, Devin started some audio Spanish lessons, and I began reading a book on Baja: Joseph Wood Krutch’s The Forgotten Penninsula.
The second night I decided to take advantage of the empty hot tub and swimming pool that is just for the RV park – came back from a walk along the waterfront and got into my swimsuit, convinced Devin to come with me to keep me company, and… the pool and hot tub were full of teenagers when we got there!! Undeterred, I said, I’m going into the hot tub anyway! Turns out they were a bunch of really nice high school students from a boarding school in Sedona, Arizona, and were a pretty international bunch – there were a couple of students from Germany, Canadians, Korean, and I can’t recall where else, except there was one super nice girl who was a Paiute from Walker Lake, Nevada! That is near Mono Lake, sort of, which is where I bought the land that helped us pay for this adventure!! Anyway, I had fun talking with them and watching them cavort in the water, and I was glad I had persisted and gone into the hot tub, because there had been a heavy marine layer there that day and it was quite chilly – pleasant, but chilly.
Go back to Day One of Baja Trip
- an exhaust system that not only increases power, but gives our model of RV 7% better gas mileage!
which has digital gauges letting you know fuel economy - allows you to figure out optimum driving speed/rpm for best mpg
lets us know what our tire pressures are at all times (keeping tires properly inflated can make a big difference in fuel economy)
(for filling tires using our batteries and keeping them at optimum pressure)
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