These are our favorite Baja plants! And lucky us, many of these plants live in Texas too, so we get to see them year round. All photos taken at Big Bend National Park in West Texas.… Read More Our Favorite Baja Flora. Also Plants.
…there are some amazing back roads along the interior of the East Cape, north of San Jose del Cabo. We rode through wide, hard-packed crushed stone. We rode through patches of single-track soft sand. We rode through one lane dirt roads. We crossed dried up river beds. Hardly saw another human after an hour or more of riding, and only stopped for the occasional cow, or horse, in the road.… Read More Dirt Bike Tour of San Jose del Cabo: Round 2
In January I was lucky enough to be back in Todos Santos, and lucky enough that while wasting time scrolling through Facebook (not recommended but sometimes useful) I saw the announcement that Tortugueros Las Playitas A.C. was doing a turtle release that very evening. I showed up about 5 minutes before the designated release time… Read More Saving Baby Turtles with Tortugueros Las Playitas A.C.
By taking care of any living being, we take care of ourselves. On our last trip to Scorpion Bay, we were honored to spend some time touring this ranch for rescue horses with our new friend, Earthquake. Inspiring as f*ck.… Read More Rescue Horses of San Juanico: A Photo Tour of Hearts Help Horses
This short day trip from Scorpion Bay incorporates a little off-road adventure as well as one of Baja’s oldest Missions. If you’re ready to tackle this as we did, we recommend a high-clearance vehicle, and yes – we did use the 4×4 once.… Read More Day Trippin’ from Scorpion Bay: The San Juanico – Comondu – Purisima Loop
Congratulations on hosting your first yoga retreat! Aside from teaching yoga, there are 101 things you’ll need to get organized. Here are the top five things we see retreat hosts forget about most often. Get these items on your to-do list.… Read More Hosting Your First Yoga Retreat? Remember These 5 Things!
We didn’t want to leave Southern Baja, but if we’re going to quit our jobs and come back to Scorpion Bay to stay, we’ll have to go home to Austin and get the dogs anyway. So…back we go to Texas. … Read More Road Trip Log Part Two: The road home from Scorpion Bay to Austin
Blanquita is the name of my truck and man, did she pull through! Here’s the story of our travels from Austin to Southern Baja, accompanied by photos from the road.… Read More Road Trip Log: The Journey from Austin to Southern Baja in Photos
“I believe in science,” says the luchador in the film, Nacho Libre (which was filmed in Oaxaca). According to my logic, this made Oaxaca the perfect place to bring along Florence Williams’ “The Nature Fix” for a week of vacation reading. We stayed in the mountain town of Huayapam just outside the city, perfect for a Mexican… Read More The Nature Fix