Cabo San Loco

Just back from a week in Mexico! (pics will be posted soon)

Los Cabos is in the desert. So when your plane lands, all you see is mountains, cacti and dust - sort of like Arizona. But then you drive towards Cabo San Lucas, and you can look down and see the Pacific... so vast & beautiful.

There's a main beach in Cabo, Playa Medano, that has lots of stimuli: vendors, music, mad people-watching. We always went to the Mango Deck beach club.

However, my favorite activity was taking a boat out to see El Arco (the Arch) and then getting dropped off on a more secluded beach on the peninsula. The side that faces the Sea of Cortez is called Lover's Beach. It's fairly calm, and people can snorkel or kayak. The other side faces the Pacific and is called Divorce Beach because it has more rocks and the biggest waves I've ever seen. Some brave folks were bodysurfing (Brian) and skimboarding.

Best food was at Gordo's, a very small taco stand on a side street. The owner Javier likes to sing Beatles' songs. There's a bar hidden in the back of a T-shirt shop across the street where you can buy beer and margaritas.

"What happens in Cabo stays in Cabo." We were there during Spring Break, so there were some crazy college kids around. You expect people who are 20 years old to be a little wild. However, I was truly shocked at how the adults and married couples were acting. Very raunchy, amoral stuff. These were white people from conservative, small-town America - the same people who elected Bush to lead our country. Something is wrong with your life when you need to cut loose so much on vacation.

Anyway, it was a fun trip overall. Cabo definitely met our vacation requirements:

1. Warm, sunny weather
2. Beach
3. Places where you can chill out
4. Places where you can turn it up

I'm back in NYC where it's rainy, windy and in the 40s (after being greeted by the transgender taxi dispatcher at Newark Airport). There's no place like home.