We are in search of authentic? Mexican cuisine without the upset digestive track that we have been warned of multiple times before arriving in Cabo. The last few evenings, we grilled steak and giant red and yellow bell peppers on the oversized grill by the pool; the Costco down …

6:00 am Mountain Time
I cannot sleep, or rather, my body believes that I have had enough sleep, this morning at 5:23. Only six hours, not really enough. But when I close my eyes against the warm night air in my bedroom, my mind swims and my eyelids flutter. …

There are three facts that exist on the southern tip of Baja Mexico: 1) this is a desert, 2) until very recently, even though the entire area is surrounded by ocean, there was very little drinking water here, and 3) it is desperately cut off from the rest of the …

This morning, I walked to the beach before sunrise. Its only 4 or 5 minutes from the 3-story condo complex we are staying at, and still within the gated community of Cabo Bello, so I felt safe enough to leave my husband sleeping in the pre-dawn darkness, leave a …

We rented a car at the airport and have been using it to explore the city and surrounding areas, and each day that we have driven outside of the area of our condo complex, I have become overwhelmed, feeling hypocritical and guilty.
One of the residents in our condo complex …

Late December 2006
This morning, while sitting at one of the tables by the pool visiting with a resident of the complex, I noticed Palm fronds falling from the canopy of green above me. I followed the thwup, thwup, thwup? of a heavy tool beating in the air to …

Late December 2006
Ive been in Mexico- Cabo San Lucas, which is a little resort town at the very tip of Baja California- for less than three days now. We arrived on Tuesday afternoon at the international airport 30 miles away and spent the first afternoon/evening grocery shopping, cooking dinner, …