Punta Banda, Mexico Jan. 6, 13

We left California at 8:30 Sunday morning to go across the border at Tecate Mexico.  There are 8 campers or rigs in our caravan.  Everyone has a radio and we are assigned numbers of the order you have to stay in.  The roads in some places are really great and the roads in others are really crappy.  Most places the roads are very narrow -- we have to be careful of people passing us with oncoming traffic -- it is kind of crazy.  We radio if we have someone passing us and the lead car lets us know if it is all clear.  The drive today was through lot of little towns and a couple of large cities -- Tijuana and Ensenada. We stopped south of Ensenada at a small town called Punta Banda and stayed at a funky RV camp on the outskirts of town.  Once we all got set up we loaded into a 14 passenger van and went on an excursion to see the "La Bufadora" which means blow hole.  It was very cool.  There was also an open market place there with lots of shopping.  They also serve beverages in the shopping area -- Mike and I shared a pina colada.  We went back to the camp ground and hung out for a while --- the weather at this point has been a little chilly.

This Jesus statue is absolutley gigantic on the side of a hill outside of Tijuana.

This is our first campsite in Mexico in Punta Banda.

 

This is the "La Bufadora" -- which means "blowhole"

Just a normal open shopping area.