Another “We Couldn’t Find a Box Story!”

So, we are walking around Mulege, Baja, a town day of running errands. We need to find a local sim data card for our Wi-Fi box, a stomach antibiotic for when, or if, we get ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ and some groceries. Along the way to get the sim card, we pass the local bakery. We drool over the pastries but decide to wait for the goodies until after we find a card. An hour or so later, sim card in hand, we are back at the bakery and ordering up sweets. We plan to sit at the street side counter so we can watch the world go by, but the young lady motions us inside to a table. We walk in and a woman sitting at another table gives us a funny look while her husband chats on the phone. I look at her and we both realize that we know each other! It’s overlanding friends, Marilee and Rob. Over a year ago, we camped next to each other at Boice-Cope County Park in Oregon and struck up a friendship. What a strange world…Who would have thought, that we would have met up in a small bakery in Baja over a year later. If we hadn’t waited for our cookie, or the owner hadn’t motioned for us to have a seat inside we would have passed right by each other.

What are the odds?
Yummy coffee and pastries.
The nice phone lady who was very patient with our broken Spanish. A local data card allows us to use our magic wi-fi box to research places, download books, and upload our blog.
In Mexico you can buy antibiotics, and other medicines, right over the counter, no prescription needed. We are now prepared for ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ (aka the trots, Dehli Belly, travelers stomach…)

Mulege

Another small oasis amid the desert.

Mulege is on the bank of a river right on the Bay of Cortez. It is lush and green right in the middle of the desert.
This wonderful smiling lady and her husband made us some yummy tacos for lunch. We always eat at the street vendors (our one rule when choosing a place to eat is that we can watch them prepare our food so we know it is fresh).
Baja is full of dogs. Some are strays looking for some attention or a morsel, and some, like this one, are well loved and fed, but roam around town at their leisure. This sweet boy belonged to the owner across the street. He had wandered over to the sunny side of the street for his afternoon siesta.
Mission Santa Rosalia sits on the hill above town. We hiked up to have a look.
The mission is usual closed, but there happened to be a young man there who showed us the inside.
It was gorgeous inside…
and out.
Well worth the hike up.
On the opposite hillside from the mission was the town prison.
That’s the mission over yonder across the river.
A very similar structure to the mission. Both trying to redeem souls?
This unique prison opened its door during the day. The inmates could leave for the day to work and see family as long as they were back at a certain time for the night. Mulege, until recently, was isolated…no where for the prisoners to go.
The cells were very tiny.
A two holer.
We loved our time in Mulege, wandering the streets and visiting the sights. The small town and friendly people were just our speed.