Day 7: Santa Rosalia to Loreto, MX

Hi everyone, thanks for following along with us on our adventure. We'll try our best to keep updating this thing when we get the chance.

So today was another great day riding the Baja. We covered roughly 130 miles from the small mining/fishing town of Santa Rosalia to Loreto. Today's ride was probably the most picturesque yet, which is truly saying a lot by how cool the Baja has been so far. We rode along the Eastern coastline and saw numerous little white sand beaches along the way while also cutting through several small sets of mountain ranges. As recommend by a long time Baja traveler, we stopped in an awesome little town called Mulege. Both Mulege and Loreto are seeing an increasing presence of Americans and Canadians who've discovered the majestic nature of the Peninsula. It's actually pretty amazing to me to see how many Americans have come down here to set up full time residence in one of the sleepy little Baja towns, a seemingly way to escape the hustle of American life.

We are staying in an incredible little place called the La Damiana Inn in Loreto. It's a old house converted into an Inn owned by an American woman who moved down here a few years ago. Loreto is becoming more of a destination town proven by the large 4 star hotels recently built down on the waterfront.

Tommorow we head to La Paz, a large port city where we will eventually pick up the ferry to Mazatlan on the mainland. Kyle did an exquisite job of describing the last few days events, however a couple things need to be cleared up for concerned readers: 1. Yes we did both go down on the dirt roads between San Felipe and Gonzaga Bay, but they were relatively low speed dumps and both us and the bikes remain un-harmed. Our egos are another story however! 2. Yes we did skirt the check point for our tourist visas, but we will be picking these up tomorrow in La Paz and we don't plan on making it a habit of avoiding the Federales. We received highly reliable information on how to do this and were assured that it would be no problem picking them up in La Paz. 3. Yes the young lads (federales) are wielding large machine guns at the checkpoints but they've been super friendly to us at every stop. Not once have we felt threatened or in danger. Hopefully this continues...

I'll definitely post more pictures as soon as I find a computer with enough bandwith to support it, maybe in La Paz. Stay tuned everyone...