Last Minute Reflections

After 6 weeks of fun and relaxation, our time on the Baja has come to an end!  Tomorrow morning we take to the road for our 5 day journey back to the mountains!  Hopefully it will be an uneventful ride home but with us, who knows?

A few last pictures of our last couple of days here!!  Saturday afternoon we went to Eric and Hillary's next rental - they stay a couple of months here at Spa Buena Vista and then move to another rental for their next 10 days.   So we met for lunch and then went to see their place - surprisingly enough, it was our FIRST choice last year when we went to book but the dates were taken when I went to book it!  Now that we have seen it, it wouldn't have worked as well for Glenn to get his raft out to fish in the mornings as it sits higher up from the beach!  But the casita itself is beautiful and sure would have been a fun place to stay!!  We said our good-byes to Eric and Hillary.

Since the alternator is bad on the ATV (and Glenn decided not to replace it till we get home) we've just been charging it with his charger.  But I guess he forgot to charge it enough because it quit on us, about a mile or so from home...............of course that was the day I didn't have my hat or sunscreen on!  It was pretty warm making that journey home on foot during the hottest part of the day!  But luckily we could walk right by the water and at least keep our feet cool!

So we got the truck and the charger and headed back - the truck DID NOT do well on the sand which of course is where we had to drive!!  Several times I thought we were going to get stuck but Glenn is a great driver and we finally got back to the ATV - only to discover after we tried to charge it that it WASN'T going to charge!!!  Something else was wrong!!  And did we have a chain to hook it up and pull it back - of course not!!!

Back home to get the chain and then back to the ATV - VERY time consuming!!  But Glenn got it hooked up and we pulled it back to our place with me steering the ATV!  WHEW!  We were both exhausted by that point!!  And later discovered that a fuse had blown so an easy fix!

Here's a dorado that Glenn caught - we had Jose over to eat it and the guys cooked it right on top of the coals! 

Last but not least are our awesome neighbors, Colleen and Betsy!  They were in the house which sits on the same property as the casita - we all got along great and became good friends by the time we were ready to leave!

So are we coming back?  Glenn and I had already decided that we wouldn't come next year and would just stay in the states.................but plans change!!  Our other neighbor Evie found us a couple of rentals that are NOT on VRBO, just word of mouth so we checked both of them out and also another one that is on VRBO!

I told the girls about the one just down the beach from this one since the price was so reasonable - they liked it as well as we did and after finding the property manager and seeing the inside, the girls made us an offer we couldn't refuse!!  Since they come down for 4 months, they are booking the house - when Glenn and I come down, they will go stay with friends down here and we'll have the house for 5 weeks!  And if for some reason we don't end up coming, it's no problem for them - they'll just stay in the house another 5 weeks!!  So it's perfect for both parties and we're all pretty excited about it!!

And the best part - it's 1/2 price of what we paid this year!!  YUP - quite the deal!  With no internet into the house nor a TV, the price was really reasonable!  We've already figured out how to get internet there and if the girls don't get a tv when they get down here, Glenn and I will bring a small tv and DVD player with us for our use!  Problem solved!  So it looks like we'll be heading down again next year to this paradise on the beach!!

What an awesome stay!