Bahia de los Angeles .... worth the drive

I made it to Bahia de los Angeles, though it was a long day, and I came close to breaking the one rule of the Baja, driving after dark, as I didn't roll into town, and the campground, until just about 5:00 pm.  The sun sets around 5:30 pm, and it gets dark quickly, especially with the mountains to the west.  As I mentioned, the worst stretch was the "road" after Coco's Corner down to where Ruta 5 hits Mex 1, 21 km of really rough stuff.  After that, it was clear sailing.  After turning off of Mex 1, it is 68 km to Bahia de los Angeles, nice little town, mostly fishing village I think.  I only traveled 176 km total for the day, though took me something like 6.5 hrs.  I stayed three nights at Daggett's Beach Camping just north of town, and at $150 pesos (with a discount the third night for some reason), with flush toilets, hot showers, and quite the view, what a deal.  I really enjoyed my time at Daggett's, nice palapa shelters, almost right on the water.  I also met some nice people there, Tom from Canada, wind surfer, kayaker, SUPer, and surfer, and a nice couple from Arizona in their VW camper.  It is often as much about the people you meet along the road as it is the places you visit.  I biked and paddled, and took lots of pictures.  It was real windy the first couple of days, as it had been most of the trip so far, but the third night, things quieted down enough that I actually had a campfire, burned the last of the wood I had hauled from Tennessee.  I also ran into a guy from Colorado with his girlfriend; I had talked to them at Bahia San Luis Gonzaga south of Puertecitos.  They were traveling in a big modified Ford Transit camper van, looked nice.  I ate out one night, I was the only one in the restaurant, fish burrito, wonderful.  I would end up eating out more than I had planned, it was often just too windy to cook outside, and cooking in my van is not preferred, the smells, the smoke alarm, problems.  What a great place, Bahia de los Angeles, definitely worth the 68 km detour off of Mex 1.
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