El Dorado Ranch #5

Wednesday at the Baja.
Today was quite eventful. As you have probably already figured out, we went back to the golf club, and found out we could in fact get on the Internet. They actually have wireless, so all we had to do was sit down at a table and turn it on. We sent out all our Emails, and got back in touch with the world. After we did that, we went on a quest to find the lot we had looked at in the desert. Probably if the guy that rented us this car knew we were going exploring in the desert with his new Toyota, he wouldn’t have rented it to us. But that’s why they call them rental cars. You take them where you would never take your real car. Several times, the wheels were going way faster than the actual speed of the car. But, I used my proven method of traversing snow (or sand), as long as you keep up the momentum, it doesn’t matter if the wheels are spinning. We rode way out in the desert, and figured out, we were certainly going the wrong way. We turned around, and went back to the beginning. The second time we were much more successful. We got on a road (well sort of a road) and got headed in the right direction. Pretty soon we started seeing familiar sights, and pretty soon we found the old 90 lot 3. We spent some time taking pictures and movies, then headed back to the main road. Then we went down to San Felipe. Up to this point, we hadn’t really checked out the local scene because of the crowds associated with the local Fat Tuesday parade. Today, San Felipe was back to its normal sleepy fishing village self. We wandered around, and had a pretty good time. We stopped at the Taco Factory and had two GIANT margaritas, which improved the ambiance of the place significantly. We found Vickie a copper bracelet that almost exactly matched the one I bought 2 years ago on the mountain in Utah. We also found a good shooter glass for the souvenir case at home. They had some great go to hell hats that I may have to go back and get one of. The shooter glass was only $3.00 which is the cheapest shooter glass I have ever found for my collection. We came back to the old Casita, and got ready for dinner. Tonight the Baja Boys were playing at Juanito’s Café which is the local restaurant and watering hole). The Baja Boys are three guys about my age that have a little band and play 50’s and 60’s music. We had two free passes for dinner, and drank about 100 Margaritas. (Vickie is currently groaning on the couch). Entire bill came to $13.00. I had a piece of local fish that was beyond good. Vickie had Tostadas that came on a platter about the size of an Oldsmobile hubcap. We danced to the Baja Boys, drank Margaritas, and ate till we couldn’t move. Now we are currently planning out retreat to the bed and it’s only around 9:30. (I like to think it’s cause we are still on East Coast time, but in reality, we’ve been sleeping 8+ hours per night, which is wonderful.