Dangerous times

San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Our timing could be better!

We left Edmonton yesterday right on time and had an uneventful trip to Mexico via Vancouver.  We arrived on time and our rental car was waiting; too bad we had to drive at night, in the rain, through unfamiliar territory to find the hotel.  The GPS guided us unerringly to the golf course, not that that was where we wanted to go.  Eventually we got to the hotel and checked in OK.  Fortunately there was a good restaurant still open on a Sunday night, just down the street, so we didn't starve, and it was reasonably dry inside.

The only real casualty of the trip so far is my Kindle reader.  Somehow between Edmonton to here it gave up the ghost, and it was with us as carry-on baggage, not jambed into our usually over-stuffed checked bags.  This is getting pretty depressing as this will be the 3rd reader that we have killed in the last two years.  Maybe we just live too harsh a life for keeping these delicate items intact.

Today we awoke to a nice warm rainy day, all courtesy of hurricane Paul which is churning away just southwest of us.  Since the beach was out of the question, we used the opportunity to visit the local Mega, Walmart and Costco stores.  We found a lot of stuff, primarily at Costco (we don't have one of those in La Paz), that we have not had much luck finding in La Paz, so we shopped up a storm.  The trunk is full and our luggage is all in the hotel room at the moment.  Oh well, that is what back seats are for.

Driving along the coast here was quite an experience.  Rain is not that usual here and the highway was almost flooded out in places.  In spite of the rain, the scenery is pretty good - this is probably quite beautiful when the weather cooperates.  Attached are a couple of pictures from around our hotel - lots of green compared to the desert around La Paz.

Our real concern is with hurricane Paul.  He seems determined to hit the Baja peninsula within the next two days, causing storm warnings along both coasts now.  I am not sure what the highway conditions will be like trying to get to La Paz tomorrow.  At the current time it appears that the south end of the peninsula, where we are, will be spared from the full fury of the storm - with any luck La Paz will get missed as well.  If I was on a boat a little further north though, I would be hunkering down just now.

The streets are mostly deserted.

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