{"id":8118,"date":"2024-02-15T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twohappycampers.com\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:31:30","slug":"winter-in-baja-day-46-this-could-get-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twohappycampers.com\/winter-in-baja-day-46-this-could-get-rough\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter in Baja Day 46: This could get rough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rancho San Dionisio -> The East Cape \/\/<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love this life so much\u2026 living in a tiny space, spending the majority of our time outside, moving to a new location every few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are days like today, when it just feels hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I woke up in the middle of the night with a cough and unmistakeable taste in my throat.\u00a0 I\u2019m sick.\u00a0 Nothing makes a tiny home feel smaller than when trying to live in it while ill.\u00a0 And being sick without getting your companion sick, in 60 square feet, is about as unlikely as a plane taking off backwards.\u00a0 It\u2019s one thing for me to be sick but if Mark goes down, everything is going to get exponentially more difficult.\u00a0 He\u2019s the captain of this ship, the foreman of this operation.\u00a0 This lifestyle is very hands on, laying around for days on end is not an option. These are the thoughts racing through my head as I try to fall back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning I don\u2019t feel terrible, there\u2019s just a little scratch in my throat and I have zero energy.  I\u2019m optimistic this won\u2019t be so bad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continue with our plan to pack up and leave the ranch and move to the East Cape, stopping in San Jose del Cabo along the way for groceries.  I hate saying goodbye to Clarence and Isabel and San Dionisio not knowing if we\u2019ll ever return but I tell myself we will, it\u2019s a waste of energy that I don\u2019t have to dwell on the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Jose del Cabo is one of the biggest cities in Baja and Mark and I are bracing ourselves for a stressful day.\u00a0 Cities are such a necessary evil for us, we hate the pace and congestion and traffic, but we love the resources they provide that aren\u2019t available anywhere else in Baja.\u00a0 To our utter delight there\u2019s a toll road that outlines the outer edge of the city with very little traffic that brings us directly to our destination, a store called Chedraui.\u00a0 We\u2019ve never been to a Chedraui but couldn\u2019t ignore the glowing recommendation provided by a Canadian couple we\u2019d just met at the ranch.\u00a0 The moment we walk inside I\u2019m filled with excitement, I can tell we\u2019ve struck Baja gold.\u00a0 After hours filling our cart with the biggest grocery haul of our trip so far, I decide that Chedraui is a cross between Walmart and Whole Foods.\u00a0 It\u2019s entirely worth the trip to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crossing from the west side of San Jose to the east is easier than anticipated and before we know it we\u2019re on the East Cape road, well on our way to our next camp.\u00a0 We stop for lunch at a restaurant overlooking the ocean where they\u2019re serving BBQ and airing an NFL game.\u00a0 The whole atmosphere couldn\u2019t be more American except for the sports correspondents speaking in Spanish and the fact that no one seems to care all that much about the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few kilometers further down the dusty East Cape road takes us to Nine Palms where we happily reconnect with Josh, Darci & Hannah.\u00a0 The moment Mark pops the top on the camper I pass out in bed, easily ignoring our $250 worth of grocery bags filling every corner of the camper.\u00a0 At dusk I wake and catch up with Josh and Darci only to be drawn right back to bed no less than two hours later.\u00a0 I curl up with a headache facing the wall, hoping that if I breathe away from Mark he might stand a chance, and doze off hoping a 12 hour sleep will give my immune system the boost it needs to fight off whatever it is that\u2019s trying to take me down.<\/p>\n\n\n