Critical information about San Felipe and the region.
The Mexicali bicycle club “Pedal y Fibra” is holding a 200 km ride to San Felipe this weekend to celebrate their 60th. anniversary. The event starts at km 15 on the San Felipe road at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning and it is expected that successful participants will take around 7 hours to get...
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Diversions are in effect on the Mexicali road between the south end of the Laguna Salada and the Ensenada road. In general, these are relatively short – not like the dreadful 10 mile diversions of last year. Take it slowly and you will be OK. Work is also progressing on the highway south to...
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Happy American Mother’s Day! What a nice day to celebrate your mother! There are to be blue, sunny skies all day today. It is another perfect day to get out of the house and explore the Baja. The temperature will be in the high 90′s, and the lowest it will get will be around...
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I understand that The Tony Reyes sport fishing boat has now received its permit to sail and the fishing trip scheduled to start on 13 May is authorized to proceed. For the future success of the industry, it seems to me that there need to be routine (annual?) inspections of fishing vessels together with...
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The lack of action by federal and state authorities over the issue of permits for the “Tony Reyes” boat continues. It is having a serious impact on the reputation of San Felipe as a sport fishing center. One of my correspondents who is a long-time charter master for the boat wrote yesterday that the...
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Today is Labor Day in much of the world, Mexico included. It is an official day of rest so this will be a short article. With the new system of 3-day weekend holidays, encouraging businesses to give employees the day off whenever an official holiday is close to the weekend, tourism was good in...
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The crash landing did, indeed, take place last Friday and it was quite a performance. The organizers wrote to me and asked me to correct the “sponsorship”. It was done by the Discovery Channel, not National Geographic. The press release follows: DISCOVERY CHANNEL CRASHES A PASSENGER JET FOR SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY A Boeing 727...
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