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18 January 2007
Chula Vista, CA
65 and partly cloudy

Dear Friends of Barbara and Charlie (B/C) ...

This begins a new attempt by Charlie to prod me, Humphrey, to post more frequent, shorter and less academic newsletters than in the past. Charlie has remarked pointedly that many friends have inquired about newsletters; I guess I have more of an audience than I realized.

The forthcoming newsletter series will chronicle B/C‘s 45 day “Slow ‘n Easy” Baha RV odyssey, 19 January to 4 March, 2007. The caravan is offered by Adventure Caravans (see internet) with whom they toured Copper Canyon in northern Mexico last winter.

This is a trip description that appears in their tour catalog. Click it to enlarge it.








It is a 1000 miles down the peninsula and another 1000 miles back. This you can enlarge by clicking.







NOTE, at this writing (11 February) we, in fact, are half way through the trip and in an RV park near Cabo San Lucas at the south of the Baja peninsula. See map below. From our park we have a broad view of the Pacific Ocean to the south. The weather here is warm, in the high 80’s but with low humidity and a saving breeze, and deep blue cloudless sky. Our caravan friends come from all over the country; many from places suffering the winter of ‘06 so they really appreciate the weather.

Hopefully, before we leave here next weekend I will be able to email several reports on way-points down the peninsula in our trip so far. I am able to do this because a member of our caravan has a satellite internet connection with wi-fi and graciously allows everyone to link through it. So email to us is possible and we’d like to hear from you.

UPDATE: I did get several reports prepared which are at the editors. This however was emailed at our next stop, La Paz. More later today hopefully.

… Humphrey for Charlie and Barbara