Category Archives: la paz

Los Cabos US Consul Saga Continues

This just arrived in this morning’s email:

The U.S. Consular Agency in Los Cabos is pleased to announce that we will be
open to the public by appointment from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on May 2 and 3
and from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 am on May 4, to process applications for U.S.
passports and consular reports of birth abroad, and to provide notarial
services. A consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana will
be present to provide these services. If you would like to make an
appointment, please call 624-143-3566. The U.S. Consular Agency continues to
provide daily assistance to U.S. citizens who require emergency services. 

The Consular Agency is currently unable to provide routine passport and
notarial services outside of these dates, but will announce future
opportunities as they arise. In the interim, please call 624-143-3566 with
questions or to add your name to the waiting list.

The Consular Agency is located at:

Tiendas de Palmilla, Carretera Transpeninsular Km 27.5 
Local B221, San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, C.P. 23406

Contact information:

Telephone: (624) 143-3566
Fax: (624) 143-6750 

Email: USConsulCabo@yahoo.com

The Sidewalks Of La Paz, Baja Sur, México

Anyone who has ever spent time in La Paz, Baja, knows the perils of walking around. Crossing a street is an adventure as drivers play a deadly game of chicken while running the stop signs at most intersections. Traveling the sidewalks (if you are lucky enough to not be on dirt) is a circus adventure – potholes, canyons and steps that are nowhere near uniform in height or depth. You’re not in Kansas anymore!

Spud Hilton, SF Chronicle’s travel editor, shares his humorous perspective on the sidewalks of La Paz, Baja.

Watch Where You Walk

México Tourism Bounces Back

If you haven’t yet read Christine Delsol’s SFGate story on the resurgence of tourism in México, you should. Christine is the real deal and she knows México very well.

Here in Todos Santos, Baja it has been very obvious this tourist season that things have improved measurably – even with our local issues, i.e. the massive road construction on the only highway from Los Cabos to Todos Santos, highway 19. I haven’t been to Cabo for 6 weeks so have no first hand reports, but I hear that the road is 85% completed. (A friend reported it took him only 1.25 hours from Costco to Todos Santos.) The last 15% will likely take a while as it constitutes the hardest parts, plowing through mountains and multiple bridges.

México Tourism Bounces Back

More Press On Cabo Pulmo Conservation Effort

Ever since Greenpeace jumped on board, Cabo Pulmo and the proposed Cabo Córtes project have been getting more and more press, all of it against the proposed development. The joint SalvemosCaboPulmo.org and Greenpeace petition had more than 60,000 signatures as of last week.

SF Gate’s Christine Delsol updated her previous story on Cabo Pulmo to reflect the new activities.

Cabo Pulmo’s Fight To Save “The World’s Aquarium”

The Middle Class Majority Rises In México

Those of us who live here full time already have witnessed this accelerating change, even in the frontier of Baja Sur. You can see it a bit in Todos Santos but it’s much more visible in La Paz. Fancy private schools, lots of shiny new cars, big box retail stores, high end department stores and lots of iPhones. For better or worse, México is on the move.

The stereotype is no longer an illegal immigrant hustling for day labor outside a Home Depot in Phoenix. The new Mexican is the overscheduled soccer dad shopping for a barbecue grill inside a Home Depot in booming Mexican cities like Queretaro.

Read the entire story at the Washington Post: México’s Middle Class