Marpeg: CATAVINA TO GURRERO NEGRO, B.C.S., MEXICO

The wind blew all night rocking us back and forth. Even the dogs don't want to go outside this morning. We continue across the peninsula which has now become a desert full of boulders and sand and cactus. We make a pit stop for the dogs and we all come back full of cactus thorns. This is a very unhospitable place.

We descend onto the Desierto de Vizcaino and the road becomes a straight line and flat. We cross from Baja California into Baja California Sur and time goes back to mountain time. We enter Guerrero Negro which is the first town big enough to have a bank since Tijuana. Our credit cards aren't worth much down here except at an ATM. Everybody deals in cash, even the Pemex gas stations. Gas is the same price all across the country.

We find the only grocery store in town and do some shopping. I'm amazed at the lack of variety here. As Americans we are so spoiled by our food marts. Here I get one kind of milk in one size only. I have a choice of four kinds of cereal and two kinds of cookies. The good new is it costs about two-thirds of what it would be in the U.S.

We continue across the Desierto at record speeds to Vizaino where we take an RV site at the Kadekaman hotel and have dinner there also. I'm getting better at ordering from a Mexican menu.