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Todos Santos Baja In NY Magazine

Posted on May 12, 2012 by howardekman| Leave a comment

It’s turning out to be a busy posting day here in the fog of Las Tunas, Todos Santos. I just learned that Todos Santos is featured as a weekend escape in the current New York Magazine. (One notable irony – the author Krista Simmons plugs Bismarkcito in La Paz, the restaurant where the shooting occurred on Mexican Mother’s Day.)

Slow Down In Todos Santos

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Todos Santos Wide Open Desert Challenge – April 15, 2012

Posted on May 1, 2012 by howardekman| Leave a comment

I always wonder how people know about these races. I saw no advance publicity but the highway was lined with cars, chairs, umbrellas, coolers and families out for an entertaining Sunday road race. I didn’t have a camera capable of taking race photos with me, my bad. Not sure if this will be a yearly event or it was just a one off. Time will tell I guess. With luck I’ll get some advance warning for the next race.

Part of the course ran parallel to Highway 19, on the east side of the road, in the dirt. When I drove by, visibility was sketchy due to the enormous amounts of dust being kicked high into the air.

If you ever wondered what it would be like behind the wheel of an off-road racer, check out the video below.

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The Season Of The Festival In Todos Santos, Baja

Posted on April 30, 2012 by howardekman| 1 Comment

Really! I can’t even remember how many “festivals” we have had this tourist season. Let me try: Fiestas Tradicionales (Pilar Festival, long standing, yearly town festival), Shark Festival, Horse Festival, Music Festival, Art Festival, Film Festival, Mango Festival, Strawberry/Chili Festival, Reggae Festival – just to name a few off the top of my head. Next season I will lobby for the Turtle Festival, Whale Festival, Canadian Tourist Festival and Spring Fog Festival.

And now, May 20th, the first GastroVino festival in the main Plaza, featuring wine and food and music, the brainchild of La Bodega wine store. Proceeds benefit the Internado, weekday accommodations for ranch kids attending school in Todos Santos.

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Illegal Mexican Immigration To US Reverses Course

Posted on April 23, 2012 by howardekman| Leave a comment

In a surprising turnaround, illegal Mexican immigrants are leaving the US and (supposedly) returning home to México. Makes sense really, with the economic hardship up north, there are fewer and fewer jobs for those who risk their lives to cross the border in order to work and send dollars back home.

In 2007, some 7 million illegal Mexican immigrants were in the US. (Wonder where that number comes from? If authorities can count them, can’t they deport them? Not that I personally believe that is the proper thing to do.) In 2011, the number slid to 6.1 million.

You can read the entire story at the NY Times:

Méxican Immigration To The US Slows

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México Tourism Bounces Back

Posted on April 20, 2012 by howardekman| Leave a comment

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

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