Our Journey Home

 Saying good-bye to Baja is always hard - as much as I LOVE the beach, I'm always ready to head home to the mountains!  We left on a Tuesday morning at 5:30am - with one last look at the ocean!

It was cold going through the mountains - felt like Colorado temps!!

The scenery is always gorgeous!  We had cloudy skies a lot of the time which makes it for a wonderful drive!

Lunch break!  The skies were gorgeous by this time and it was downright hot when we ate!

It's always a welcoming feeling when we arrive at Ignacio Springs to stay at the yurts!  Bonnie and Paul are always fun to see and Mario makes the BEST pina coladas!

Dinner was wonderful, served outside at one big table and we always enjoy talking to the other people that are staying there!

Here's their local cat - loves to sleep on the chairs!

Nighttime is always so pretty!

I knew it was going to be a full moon so I kept going out of the yurt so I could see it and even though I couldn't capture it on my phone, it still made for a great picture on the river!

The 4 of us were ready at 7:00 for breakfast there before we headed out!  We knew the next leg would be tough as we had heard there were SO many potholes and bad highways out of Guerro Negro - oh my gosh - I felt like all we did was zig zag to the other side and luckily it was morning when we took this highway so there wasn't a lot of traffic!  FINALLY we drove out of it - wow - and I thought Colorado roads were bad!!

Glenn had decided he wanted to cross at San Luis, the other small crossing not too far from our regular spot - we were going to check out the crossing to see if our friends could get through with their 5th wheel AND trailer - NOT!  It was a sharp turn!  I wasn't impressed with this crossing so we'll go back to our normal one next year!

Once we crossed it wasn't too far to the hotel that the 4 of us were staying at!  We walked to a sports bar for dinner and I loved eating sweet potato fries once again!

We said our goodbyes to Del and Linda and after eating a quick breakfast at the hotel, we headed out - it was another long day till we arrived in Albuquerque for the night - and the following morning we made good time heading on home!  After a quick (actually NOT so quick) stop at Walmart to stock up on groceries since the fridge is always empty, we were finally HOME SWEET HOME!