We were trapped in the small town of Melaque, locked securely behind the gates of our little hideaway; safe from the thousands of drunken revellers but not the headache inducing noise of the nearby discoteca's. Sleep deprived and cranky, we were taken unawares by Semana Santa (Holy Week), Mexico's biggest holiday of the year.　We had mixed feelings and expectations for mainland Mexico knowing it is much more developed and populated than Baja. The first 2 weeks p...

Next stop, Punta Abreojos; it's Spanish for 'open your eyes' and once you see the perfect rights (waves) you will open them wide. Truth is that the early Spanish explorers named this point on account of the reef that often sunk their ships. A few hundred years later, Ollie and Shay rock up and hit the jackpot. Abreojos is a legendary point break known for perfect rights, football field length rides, hard offshore winds and flies the size of seagulls. There are a...

The dusty dirt track we chose to take could have been any of the typical Mexican roads leading to nothing but garbage in the bushes. This one however extended beyond the rubbish dump and down to the Sea of Cortez, to a secret campsite known to insiders only; it reminded us of an RV equivalent to 'The Beach' movie/book. The Whistle-blower for the location of 'The Beach' was a really nice couple from Montana. We had met them a day before at an RV park in Mulege. T...

"It's moi! Big Tony! From the book!" Our new friend gestures with his hand trying to get the point through to us. Instead of encountering the expected bandidos as we entered Mexico, we made a good friend, Big Tony, the 'real live' character in the book "In Search for Captain Zero" by Allan Weisbecker. It's all true what they say about the pharmacies in the infamous Mexican border town, Tijuana. We literally had to zigzag our way through the...