Best of the Baja

View along the Rt. 5 Sur, south of San Felipe, with Gulfo de California off in the distance.

I have now been back in the USA for a few weeks, time to unpack, clean my van, work on images, and time to reflect.  The Baja is wonderful, a special place as I suggested in an earlier post.  You do need to visit, and explore the peninsula if you get a chance.  So, if you are able to visit, where would you go?  Since I got back, many have asked me, ".... so where was your favorite place?"  Well, that is always a difficult question to answer, as like other places I have visited, the Baja has so much to offer, so much to see, and do, it is nearly impossible to pick out one, or a few of the best, there are just so many wonderful places.  But, I going to try anyway.  So here goes, my favorite places, the best of the Baja (at least for me) and, a few places which I had to miss, but you should not.

I really like San Felipe, for a number of reasons, including the fact that outside of Cabo, where I got stuck, I spent more nights in San Felipe than anywhere else.  But there is more to it than that.  The town is nice, small malacon, bars, restaurants, shops, fuel, and a number of campgrounds, so everything you would need.  Campo Uno, where I stayed, was great, wonderful people, ok facilities (had hot water showers my last two nights there), and the Gulfo de California right there.  So if you hop across the border at Mexicali, or coming from the east in general, head south along the east coast of the Baja on Rt. 5 and stop in San Felipe, get oriented to a different culture, and language, and prepare for the Baja adventure that awaits.  And maybe by the time you get there they would have fixed the Rt. 5 Sur. Nope, not likely.
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