What do you DO there in Baja?

When not at my little mountain home in the quaint town of Idyllwild, California, I drive south about 6 hours to my spacious beach house sout...

The New Drug Fueling Mexico's Woes

Rather than via furtive back-alley transactions, this drug is swapped, rather unsurreptitiously, among coworkers at the office over the wate...

Is There Something Eating At You?

You wake up feeling groggy, although you’ve had your normal six to nine hours of sleep, whatever works best for you, and you didn’t have tha...

Mexico: Tourism is Actually Up!

My Mom saved an article for me that she read in the Los Angeles Daily News December 24, reporting that although Mexico is suffering its bloo...

Summer in San Felipe!

Some of my friends think I’m crazy to be here in San Felipe in July, one of the hottest and most humid months of the year. I’ve spent the f...

My Special Place in Mexico

On my 50th birthday, in September of 2002, I decided the best gift I could give myself would be to forget, for awhile, about finding a compa...

EL TERREMOTO

When it happened, I wasn’t at my home in Baja, about 100 miles south of the epicenter. My Baja neighbors later reported a lot of rocking an...