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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

At the end of our road …

It turns on to Palmira, which in a short distance leads to the Malecón and Sea of Cortez. To the north are the tennis courts and entrance to the Hotel Araiza Palmira where last week the U.S. baseball team playing in the Pan-American games stayed (yes, a random fact). Not much to look at but offers some orientation to our hood.

The Road to Our House

The road to our house, Golfo de California, is nothing special – dirt and rocks that turn into mud and more rocks when it rains. The road runs more or less east-west. The first photo shows the entrance to our road from La Palmira. The middle photo, due east, captures our private if not entirely charming neighborhood. In the last photo you’ll see the boulder-field entrance to our driveway, one that we take slowly and … more

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We wondered why so much of the Gulf was familiar to us, why this town had a ‘home’ feeling. We had never seen a town which even looked like La Paz, and yet coming to it was like returning rather than visiting. Some quality there is in the whole Gulf that trips a trigger of recognition so that in fantastic and exotic scenery one finds oneself nodding and saying inwardly, ‘Yes, I know.’

John Steinbeck, The Log From The Sea of Cortez, 1951