Day 281-285, 18-22 April09: Trucks, dust, wind, heat: Baja California Norte, Part2

18-21 April 2009, past San Quintin –Rosarito, via El Rosario, Sonora & the desert.. The roads were dry and empty but the fresh sea wind kept us cool. That is, until we headed inland and up a very steep hill. After some pushing we ended up at another military checkpoint on top of a mesa, before [...]

1000 Americans: Mother and kids selling fruit, Villa Jesus Maria, Mexico

In the middle of a long dusty stretch of road, this family parks their van, fixes a tarp and carves and sells fresh fruit, a small oasis in the desert. The kids just hang out in the car while the parents are working…

1000 Americans: Don Santiago & Alonso Romero, Sonora, Mexico

Don Santiago is in his sixties and lives with his mother in a small lone ranch in the desert of Baja California. They sell animals carved out of marble and onyx. His son Alonso (one of 9 kids) lives South in Guerrero Negro and visits him when possible.

Day 274-280, 11-17April09: Trucks, dust, wind, heat: Baja California Norte, Part1

We stayed a few days in Ensenada. Gerardo, who lives in the US, came down for a day, to resupply the local bikeshop (‘TNT’) with new bikes and parts and took us out for breakfast in the centre of Ensenada, where we visited a nice coffeeshop with Wifi. The town was virtually deserted, no tourist [...]

1000 Americans: Ed & Duffy, El Rosario, Mexico

Ed ‘Eduardo’ Lusk is married with a Mexican woman and they run the well-known Baja’s Best restaurant together. His neighbour and friend Duffy also originates from Ventura, California, but both like the climate and atmosphere in Northern Baja California much better.

1000 Americans: Areli, Rosa, Yaneth, Gerardo & Michelle, Colonet, Mexico

Gerardo thanks his Lord every minute for his life and the challenges in it. Having been a fisherman and now a small farmer and land worker, he trust completely in his faith and his family to make ends meet. Shot by candlelight in his small house outside Colonet, built and donated by a church group.

1000 Americans: Dr Viridiana, Santo Thomas, Mexico

Viridiana is a young doctor, teaching the rural population about sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS and prevention of it, birth control and nutrition. Her small clinic helps many poor people from the area.

1000 Americans: Carina, Ensenada, Mexico

Carina works in a nice small coffee shop in the centre of Ensenada, a city where many young people from the US come to ‘party’ as the age restrictions on drinking and drugs are more flexible than in the US. Meanwhile Carina creates her coffees and pours a wonderful chai to more relaxed guests.

1000 Americans: Gerardo Medina, Ensenada, Mexico

Actually, Gerardo lives in Riverside, California. But he has a small place in Ensenada that he does not real use himself, but he allows biketravellers to use it as a WarmShowers place. Even though he is a doctor, he could not revalidate his certification in the US and is making signs now. Every now and then [...]

1000 Americans: Delia & Jose Antonio, Ensenada, Mexico

Delia and Don Jose Antonio are in their seventies and have been married over 50 years and live in a small house, South of Ensenada, with their dog Canica.

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