mexico

Follow the Cows, but Never Trust the Cows Reaching the low saddle between the La Rabia and San Sebastain drainages you will find yourself faced with a bewildering selection of cow trails to follow. Knowing roughly the way I needed to go, I would just pick the one that looked the most traveled...

January 2025 finds me in Baja and here is a long trip report of what happened. To see about my other El Camino Real hikes you can read about the 2022 hike here, or the 2023 hike here, or the 2024 hike here. This year will probably be my last attempt hiking this section of the trail and this...

Here I go again. Work ½ a day. Drive 575 miles to Indio, crash in the Hilton for the night. Next day I drive to Calexico, do some last minute shopping, fill up with gas, exchange some dollars to pesos. Drive across the International Border and be waved over for inspection by the Mexican...

For better or worse I have started my trip to hike a section of the El Camino Real between the old Missions of San Borja and Santa Gertrudis. I have wanted to hike a section of the ECR for a few years now and it was all set up to happen the first week in January of 2022. The route was mapped...