850. Mexico Part 2 | Los Cabos

I've only just realized we have been in Los Cabos for almost 6 months now. As I mentioned in my previous post, we used this as our base and also travelled to other places in between. Tomorrow we will leave to go back to Europe for awhile, starting with Spain. We are leaving just in time now as the weather here in Los Cabos is getting worse - extremely hot (high 30s) and almost hurricane season. We have had a few thunderstorms here these days when in the first months there was no rain at all. The worst part is all the insects that come after the rain. Flying rain and what looks like desert termites that somehow get in our house. However even if the weather was still nice here, I'm not sure if I will miss this place. It's nice to be for people who just want to lay on the beach and relax, but there really isn't anything to do. The sunsets are nice though. The photo above is taken from our rooftop.

During our time here we've taken some day trips and weekend trips to nearby places - mainly Todos Santos, San Jose del Cabo, La Paz and Cabo Pulmo which you'll see in this post.

Here is our community and house. On the outside it looks nice but we've had a lot of issues here like water and gas running out, water turning off on its own, things breaking, etc. When we first arrived, we didn't realize that the water and gas do not refill automatically. You need to call the companies to come and refill it when you're almost out.

Me and a Xoloitzcuintle dog in Todos Santos. A cute town about an hour away from us.

One weekend we went to Balandra Beach, a very popular beach here in Baja California close to the town of La Paz (about 2 hours away from us). The bay is very popular so we had to get there early. They only let in a limited number of people per day, and only allowed to go in within 2 time slots for 2 hours I think. There is usually a huge line up of cars prior to each time slot. I think we got lucky because we arrived right when the first time slot ended, and they were nice enough to let us in. It's a popular place because the entire bay is very shallow, so you can walk through the whole area without having to swim.



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849. Mexico Part 1 | Los Cabos

I haven't updated my blog at all since arriving in Los Cabos 4 months ago. It has definitely been the longest gap in all my (14!!) years of blogging. Since April we've had this place as our base. The first weeks we had some friends visiting from Canada so I didn't have much time. Then in May we spent a couple of weeks in Mexico City and Oaxaca. From there I visited Toronto in June, for the first time since we embarked on this "world trip". It was nice to see my family and dog after so long. I spent a couple weeks there before returning to Los Cabos. Now we are here for a couple more weeks before we go back to Europe/Spain.

So there isn't much to do in Los Cabos. If you're just coming for vacation, I think 3 days is enough to see the sights and everything. Pretty much the only place we go is the beach lol. There's also some nearby towns we visited a few times which I will show in the next post.

Our community and neighbouring community

One of the first meals. The best garlic shrimp I've ever had! This restaurant is called Pata Salada. They specialize in seafood. For the most part, the food in Cabo is not really good (mostly overpriced and touristy) but I like this place a lot.

Tip of the Baja peninsula

I guess the ony attraction in Los Cabos is The Arch (first pic of this post). You have to book a boat tour here which only takes about 20 minutes. Along the way you see some beaches including Lovers Beach in the photo above. We had the option of staying on the beach for an hour. Then we got picked up by the boat again to bring us to the Arch.

BBQ dinner when our friends came to visit

View from our rooftop

Santa Maria Beach (my favourite one out of the closest ones to us/where we usually go)

Squid Roe! I really liked it. It's one of the most popular places here with everyone from seniors to Spring Breakers.

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847. Helsinki, Finland + thoughts on the war

As I make this post, we are still in Tallinn. I can't believe this has been our home for about 5 months already. Time flew by fast but I also feel like we have been here forever, and that it has been winter forever. Last year at this time we were in Thailand which is quite the difference in temperature. I miss the warmer weather (and sun, which we don't get much of here).

We will finally leave before the end of this month and will head west to the Americas (I will reveal the destination later on). I'm looking forward to it but not for the long arduous journey of ~50 hours in transit. To be honest I've been nervous these weeks being in the Baltics with the Russia-Ukraine war going on. I know the chances of us being affected is low (as Estonia is under the protection of NATO) and Russia is kept busy with Ukraine for now. However this is a former country of USSR and we are in close proximity. If anything happens here it would likely mean world war 3. I really hope it will not escalate into that. I can't believe war is still a possibility now. It has always been something we learn about in history class; a thing of the past. I read before that world wars happen after those who have lived through it/with first hand accounts of it it have died, which would be true in this case as all WWII veterans are passing away. I know that throughout the years there have been smaller scale wars as well, in other parts of the world. I guess since it's happening in Europe now everyone is getting more worried and paying more attention. I am lucky to have been born in Canada and grew up in a country without the fear of war (or actual fear of anything really). I never had to worry about becoming a refugee or even large scale terrorist attacks there. I never even kept up with world news in the past which I feel is a privilege. Sometimes I miss being a kid and being ignorant to these things.

I feel very sad for the people in Ukraine who have been affected by this (also the Russians who are suddenly cut off from the world). It's crazy to think that a few weeks ago they were living their normal lives and then everything changes literally overnight. Families being torn apart, people having to escape and start new lives with only a small suitcase of possessions (and those are considered the lucky ones). While those stuck there live in fear of being killed any day with dwindling supplies of food and other necessities.

Pandemics usually occur before or after wars as well for some reason. It's interesting now covid seems to have suddenly disappeared overnight (except in Asia) as people move onto the next world issue. Maybe we heading into a tough decade of depression again.

Anyways, during our last weeks in Tallinn I will try to catch up as much as I can with my posts. I still have posts from Thailand that I still need to make =\ Here are some photos from a weekend trip to Helsinki. It was my 2nd time visiting this city. I first visited when I was 15 years old on a trip around Scandinavia and Russia. I've always wanted to visit Russia again since I really loved it back then. But I guess that trip will have to wait a little longer now..

It was in December, before Christmas, when we visited Helsinki..here is the Christmas Market

Trying reindeer meat. It was really good. I think this restaurant specialized in it as almost everyone ordered this lol.

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