Sunday, April 6, 2008



Anne and Keith have an early morning plane to catch from San Diego on Thursday, so we have to get them there. We leave at 7:15AM on Monday 3/31, headed back up highway 1 to Mulege, where we have a hotel reservation. Yes, the girls insisted, so we went to a Mexican travel agent in Cabo San Lucas, and got set up for the next two nights. On the way down, we noticed that every place there had been a fatal accident, the family had erected a little roadside shrine to remember their lost loved ones. We must have seen hundreds over the 1000+ miles of highway. I snapped a couple of photos, because they seemed so unusual. On one very curvy mountain section, I saw a scorched car and a small cross on the shoulder above it. We pulled over to take a look. As we approached the shrine, Nancy realized that the name was in English. She looked, and realized that it was a teacher who had taught in Lake Elsinore, who she knew. The teacher and her son had been in a serious accident in Baja, and she was killed. Her son survived. This was her shrine. This really hit home that this was a dangerous highway. On the way back north, we saw two serious accidents the first day. One was a small sedan that had run up on a truck from behind, and it was stuck clear up under the truck. The second was the remains of a semi that had rolled over, and the tractor was ripped in two. We resolved to redouble our efforts to be safe drivers and not to exceed the driving conditions.

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