Day 9
Mulege to San Fransquito
175ish Miles
Once again, I am up before dawn. Bombearo is wrong, it can be Christmas every day, I'm up and excited wanting to drink it all in. I watch some more pelicans bomb the water and make a cup of coffee on the old Jetboil. J finds an odd looking "beetle" crawling on his pillow. Turns out this Montana kid has never seen a cockroach. I was surprised that this was the first one we had seen. We had a pretty long dirt end of the day planned so we headed out pretty early, stopping at the Pemex just south of town for fuel. We followed the highway north into Santa Rosalita and the continued on to San Ignacio. We knew that Effrain's place would deliver the goods, so we pulled for some Pacificos and tacos dorados.
We continued north onto El Marasal/Vizcaino and got some more fuel at the Pemex. We also made a stop at a store and picked up some provisions before diving off the grid to San Fransquito.
Fast forward.........A little nice bottle of tequila would go well with the beach.
Some more jerky and water, and we headed up the black trail for a bit, before breaking off for the dirt heading east. This section was one of the smoothest riding roads we had been on. Nice sand, not too deep, good scenery. We made good time and pulled into SF around 4pm. Juan was there, no Rosa. Man, we really wanted to meet her after reading a few other trip reports. Juan told us we could camp for 150 pesos/pp at the far cabana. Like others have mentioned, the place is in disrepair and the weather has beat it up pretty good ripping roofs off a few of the structures. But with that said, the shitters were as clean as we had seen and there was even a plunger. He asked us if we wanted to eat dinner, fish tacos at 6! We all soaked in the beauty and solitude of the place. I took a quick dip in el mar....it was chilly. J headed off for the rocks and did some fishing.
The fish tacos were some of the best on the trip and the Pacificos muy frio. We slapped up a few stickers and headed back for a nice fire on the beach. I slept like a log and probably sounded like I was sawing some. The stars were epic. I can't say enough about how much we enjoyed this spot. I had heard so much and it lived up to it. It's simple, rustic if you will, off the grid, all that shit. It's great
Believe it or not, this rig actually runs, even with 2 flat tires. Juan fired it up in the evening and drove it over to maybe where he kept his generator. KIR
Thank you to all who recommended it!
Another one minute highlight - watch in 1080p
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