Brochtrup Bunch: Baja Trip Continuation Story

Well most of you know how our trip began, if you read my previous blog. If you have not read it, please go back and read that one first and then come and read the continuation of our trip to Baja.

So, we make it to the house, finally. The next morning we wake up to a beautiful day. The sun is out, the tide is out, and a breeze is blowing. It’s going to be a much better day. This is the view from the porch of the house. Not bad!

Bathing suits go on, sunscreen on, and we are off to play in the sand. Well, the kids did not want to. They are so weird. We were in the wonderful place and all they wanted to do was play in the house. Really put a damper in my relaxing time in the sun. Ok, so I deal with it. I ended up getting an hour or so in the sun a day while Teresa took her nap. It worked out. I am not as tan as I would be normally, but I’m still tan. By the end of the trip I could get Teresa to play on the porch and Kevin got Mary to like swimming in the ocean. She was a fish in the sea. She would bug us each day to go swimming. The tide was really extreme for the week, so we could only go in around 2:00 or so, when the tide was high. Now she likes the water and we will take her to get swim lessons so she can go on the boat with Nana and Papa.
We took rides on the people mover, the VW bus my dad made into a baja bus. It was super fun to ride in.

The girls loved to ride in it. As you can see Mary is all ready to go with her bandanna on her head!

Kevin and I mainly took the jeep, we brought down.

My parents brought down the buggy for them.

Lotsa room for everyone to have fun. So, fun rides to other camps and to town for a day. We took the broken hitch to town to get it fixed. We did get it fixed so we could tow the jeep back home.
So things are going good, so we thought. Linda decides she is going to go take a ride on her quad. She goes out with the key to the back of the house and there is NO quad there. HOLLY CRAP! Just the thought I had when I did not see the jeep behind the motorhome. So we are all now trying to figure out the last time we saw it sitting there. All we can figure is that someone took it while we were all in town. So Linda tells the owners of the camp and she files a report with the Mexican police. Hopefully it will be found.
Ok, so hopefully this will be the end of our bad luck. We keep on going with our week. Soaking up all the fun in the sun we can. Saturday rolls around and we need to pack up to leave the next day, such a sad day. We wake up Saturday and finish our packing and roll out about 9 in the morning. My mom drives the jeep the 2 hours, or so, to Mexicali though all the rough detours. We then stop and hook it back onto the motorhome and proceed to cross the border. Thanks to all the new fun roads it took us 5 hours to get to the border, which normally takes about 2 ½. It felt like we had been traveling ALL day. So we get across the border and get to Cocos for lunch/dinner. By then it was almost 3:00. By the time we were done it was almost 5. Now we are off to Morongo for the night. We make it to Morongo. My sister and her husband were going to proceed home so we said our good byes and they were off again. We get settled in the parking lot for the night. Some of us head over to the casino. We have to do something while we are there. Ha Ha! While we are there my sister sends a picture to my mom of a flat tire. Another HOLLY CRAP! So they get a flat tire on the trailer they are pulling the VW bus on. Great, the adventure is not over yet. Luckily Matt is able to figure it all out and they got home safe. Needless to say, we did not feel lucky enough to gamble after that, so back to the motorhome we went to go to bed.
The next morning we are up and heading back home. Thankfully there were no more adventures to report. We all made it safe and sound home. It was an eventful trip. In between it all, it was fun. What’s a vacation without stories???
Below are picture, out of order. Explanations with each of them.

This is the sulfur mines. We take a ride out to them. Nothing to see, only smell. It's an excuse to go for a ride and have a beer stop.

This is some of us sitting at the sulfur mines chillin'

The view from the buggy while taking a ride down the road. SO much fun!

Here are mom and Amy riding in the back of the buggy.

Here is Mary getting her hair braided by one of the vendors on the beach. She was so good to sit and let them do it.

And here is the finished product. It was great that day. Her hair is so fine that it started to come out after sleeping on it one night. But since we were camping, we didn't care. She was a braided ragged mess for a couple days. It kept it out of her eyes at least.