I’d set an alarm for 6am to get out and start work on the car before the heat hit, but I don’t even remember rolling over and turning it off. We didn’t emerge from the bedroom until late morning. After breakfast, it was time to finally face it. What’s wrong with the Astro. We moved…

Another late start, we’d now had two solid sleeps, and were feeling blissful. With the house to ourselves, Dan made omelettes for brekky and killed it. I read the Wall Street Journal feeling proper American, then started catching up on all the blogging from Baja. Already fed up with a day of doing nothing, we…

Needless to say, we slept all the way in. I only got out of bed to go outside and do my SPOT, which I’d forgotten about last night in my fatigued state. Thankfully Derek kept me honest sending me a text early morning. We both checked on Hopper when we went to the bathroom and…

We had a pretty eventful night and morning at our free camp. Just before we went to bed, I’d wondered out loud to Dan what the moon would look like rising over the sea so late at night. Would it still be coloured since the sun was well past setting? I must have some sort…

I woke up pretty early as usual, but the sun was rising behind us over the mountains, so I didn’t get myself out of bed in a hurry. Dan made pancakes, bacon and eggs for breakfast and we ate on the side step looking out at the ocean. No surf this morning, the waves that…

The experience of last night already seemed far away when I woke at first light. Dan was passed out beside me but I couldn’t go back to sleep so I grabbed my laptop and got up, sitting on a park bench just outside the car, looking out over the ocean. I blogged as the sky…

I had all sorts of good intentions to get up and go for a surf at sunrise to try and beat the crowds, but nothing of the sort happened. It was too tempting to stay in bed when a marine layer of fog had fallen over the beach. We were late risers this morning, with…

We were one of the first to rise out of the van campers, I was thinking that everyone must have stayed up much later. I was fixing to go for a walk into town since we needed some supplies so we hooked Cleo up and started walking along the top of the cliffs. The Astro…

We woke up when we wanted to wake up and we did what we’d been looking forward to for a while – we had showers. The wind had died down so it was warm enough to do so. We both treated ourselves to a three bottle shower (it normally takes just two). I scrubbed and…

At some point in the night, I was surprised by a pitbull tongue in my face. Cleo was scared of the noise the wind made and wanted a cuddle in bed, thinking that a lick in the face would be a perfect way to ask the question. Apart from that, we had a sound sleep,…