Maps
Map of Baja
 

in baja norte
Tijuana to El Rosario
>El Rosario to Catavina
Catavina to Bahia de Los Angeles
Bahia de Los Angeles to San Felipe
Mountains of Baja Norte
Canyons of Baja Norte

in baja sur
Mulege
The Islets of Bahia Coyote
La Trinidad
Guerrero Negro and Dunas de Soledad

courtesy of
Erik Gauger
copyright 2003
notesfromtheroad.com

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Before dark, Vance and I set out in opposite directions. The temperature was boiling, especially in the white-sandy bottom of the windless arroyos. When we passed a rare blue fan palm - literally a palm with blue leaves, I was thinking: the only way to hike in this heat is to walk real slow. Vance said, "Just walk slow." I thought, 'Walk slow like a southerner.' Vance said, "walk real slow, like a southern man.

We took off, into the desert, into the hills, into the boojum and the cardon and the wrinkled land, and we met up, hours later, at camp, under the stars, under the Milky Way, under the most brilliant sky. There is something about an open night sky, and travel, maybe even about isolation, which makes people discuss the otherworldly.

Maybe it was the heat, but we talked about the size of the galaxy, the possibility that the universe is not alone in a 'constellation of universes', and the meaning of death, and life, and about how it would be good that reportedly, beer would be sold in Baja the next day. Vance trekked in the night to sleep under the cave paintings, I took to the arroyo, and wrote in my notepad, 'No laws in Baja. Can do whatever you want.'