Ensenada (BC, Mex)

"Mona Lisa RV Park" in Ensenada, Baja California - was rated: 5

Back in site fairly level and nicely landscaped. Electric 30 amp, but it didn't work so used 15 amp connection instead. Unusual historical murals on various rental houses in the park. Beach area rip rap rock. Lot of stray dogs...

Day 1186: The Road Home

The Road To Ensenada is a beautiful song. It's melancholy yet hopeful, and I play it to remind myself of a short time when all that mattered was being in Mexico to study rocks. No deadlines, no accountability, no place to be at...

A radiant coast of Mexico, blighted by drug wars

Nov 25, 2008

JUST off the highway in the scrubby hills north of town stands a walk-in shrine to a man known as the "narco saint," Jesús Malverde, a Robin Hood-like bandit who is said in Mexican lore to have performed miracles for the...

Tijuana: A Troubled Paradise

On Friday I spent the day touring the coast from Tijuana to Ensenada with Saul Alarcon who works with me at WiLDCOAST and Joe Sharkey who writes the New York Times "On the Road"column. Joe was reporting on how the staff of...

Roeseler rewrites Baja record book

A day after Johnny Campbell erased his record for overall motorcycle wins, former Santee resident Larry Roeseler rewrote another part of the SCORE Baja 1000 record book. Roeseler teamed with Nevada's Roger Norman to finished...

SCORE: Baja 1000: Series pre-event facts, notes

WHAT: 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race Final event of the five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series WHEN: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 19-23, 2008 WHERE: Ensenada-Baja California, Mexico (65...

9 killed in drug related violence

At least nine people have been killed in suspected drug related crimes over the past two days in northwestern Mexico, EFE news agency reported, citing officials. According to the attorney general's office of Baja California...

Thousands turn out to protest violence

TIJUANA – More than 2,500 people marched yesterday afternoon through this city bludgeoned by violence, doing the only thing organizers said was left for them to do: pray. Meanwhile, deadly violence continued its march across...