The wind was blowing so bad in San Francisquito, we decided to head out after one night. The plan was driving a dirt road out towards a place called El Arco, but there are many tracks going off the “main” dirt road, with no signs indicating which one was the road we wanted. In San Francisquito we met a couple from Estonia and they had arrived from El Arco driving a little 2 wheel drive rental car, we figured it would be an easy drive for us in the Landcruiser. After pouring over the map and some discussion, we set off thinking we knew which road we wanted. We made the turn off we had decided upon, and within a few minutes started having second thoughts. The little road quickly turned into a narrow track with big ruts. We were soon 4x4ing along thinking that there was no way the couple had come through this “road” in their little rental car. Alas, there was no place to turn around and as someone told us: “here in Baja all roads lead to your destination,” so onward ho it was. Luckily a few minutes later, we met up with the the right road. It turned out we had taken a not so short, short cut to the road we wanted. After some bumping along over washboard, we met back up with the Mex 1 just south of the town of Guerrero Negro on the Pacific Coast.
One of the highlight on the road was seeing this raptor and his prey on a cactus top
We drove south a little while and ended up in the town of San Ignacio. It is a really cute little town, and is the first we have seen in our journey through Baja that has the colonial/mission feel to it. There is a nice typical plaza with lots of trees fronting the Mission San Ignacio, a beautiful old mission that was built out of lava rock. One of the nice things about the town is that a river runs through the area so it is an oasis of green lushness in the sea of the Baja desert. Unfortunately, the town was hit by hurricane Jimena this September, the downed palms and evidence of flooding are still there as a reminder. We parked on the plaza and walked around a bit. As we were coming back to the Landcruiser we noticed we were parked next to 2 rigs from France that looked like they were decked out for traveling and next to us was a motorcycle that looked the same. We ended up talking to the folks in the rigs and it turns out that we are all headed to Argentina! We all ended up at the same campground along the river for the night. We swapped information, and hope to meet up with them along the road.
Plaza San Ignacio and the traveling vehicles. The RV on the left is a family of 5, 3 boys and their parents 
Our spot by the river in San Ignacio
The motley crew of Americas overland travelers
