The Lady Will Have The Duncan Reynaldo Please.

Happy Birthday Lindsay!!

The big day is here! Not only Linds' birthday, but tomorrow will find us shooting through the San Ysidro border crossing into Tijuana and beyond! Since crawling out of the Grand Canyon last week we have really concentrated on getting in a lot of carefree relaxing and over-eating/drinking (wink, wink linds). We had planned to spend just a few days in Tucson and San Diego, but both stops had been pushed longer to allow for more relaxing.

We are really not that lazy, but on some level we both know that we may soon miss the carefree comforts of the states. Not to mention the hospitality of our Tucson and San Diego people. Big Nebraska win at the Sweeney residence- it had been too long John and Ingrid! Thanks for letting us er...sleep in your driveway! And it must feel real bad to give up two home-runs at stickball on your home field CQ, sorry 'bout that.

Sweeney saturday

Little CQ practicing with the big boys

hmmm.

Thanks also to the nameless heavy metal fan at the usps store in Tucson for making us six fake id's to provide to sketchy checkpoint officials (not convinced this is a good idea yet...comments welcome). We've been couching at good friend Andrew Jorgensen's Pacific Beach house for the past few days getting ready for the big push off.

Secret hollow book trick! Classic anti-theivery!!

Go-cart racin' in miramar

Were prepared for just about anything!

For the folks who don't know yet, our itenerary:

We head through the border at Tijuana to Ensenada tomorrow morning, camping and exploring for a few days to get our spanish dusted off.

A week or two from now should find us in Cabo San Lucas (scuba diving?) and La Paz where we will ferry over to Mazatlan...

...just in time for Day of The Dead festivities (three days or so).

From here south, camping down the coast for a good while, Acapulco perhaps, where we head east to Puebla, and Vera Cruz (we have some friends there).

Down, and then up the Yucatan Peninsula next to visit Merida, Cozumel, and Belize (Blue Hole for scuba diving).

We aim to be in Guatemala in the second week of November. We've got some driving to do!

Brett's grill is an extension of his soul. And it is good.

Happy birthday Lindzer!