Tomorrow we will enter Mexico. What a wonderful adventure we’ve had in the USA over the past 2 months and 2 days! We’ve driven through 21 of the contiguous states and stayed for a night or more in 15 of them. We’ve logged 10,395 kilometres, all safe except for a cracked windshield!
As we get ready to leave the USA, we reminisce about our time here and think about the things that will be missed once in Mexico:
- everyone speaks English
- you can flush paper down the toilets
- cheap gas
- inexpensive and still good-tasting wine
- very friendly people who aren’t trying to sell you anything
- great freeways with shoulders and signs in English
- salad kits (it’s impossible to find decent lettuce south of the border) and such easy availability of food staples.
- A plethora of radio stations playing music we know
We’ve stocked up on everything that is hard to come by across the border, such as decent wine, Ovaltine, quality dog food, and spreadable butter (on that note, I’m ticked Canada doesn’t have spreadable butter - it’s the best thing EVER!).
That said, there are also so many things to look forward to about Baja:
- no rules - no one telling us we can’t have a dog off-leash, drink a beer on the beach, or collect downed wood for a fire!
- The BEACH and big Pacific waves
- cold Pacifico beer available everywhere
- fresh, locally-made tortillas in every town, freshly-caught seafood bought from the fishermen, refried beans, Oaxaca cheese, and Fud chorizo
- like-minded RVers
- warm dry sunny days and cool nights
- TEQUILA!!!
- Familiarity of place - now we feel like locals! Catching up with our buds at El Litro RV Park and Shut Up Frank’s bar in Todos Santos
- whale-watching
- Going back to metric - miles are just SO friggin’ long!
Adios - enjoy the winter peeps!
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