{"id":2323,"date":"2011-12-15T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2011-12-15T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:48:00","slug":"on-our-way-to-baja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"On our way to Baja&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yun and I took a week vacay to Baja Norte (La Mision) for some much needed rest. We&#8217;ve never traveled to Baja before, so the trip was new.<\/p>\n<p>We traveled through Yuma on our way to Mexicali where we would cross into Mexico. Just past Yuma and into California are these incredible sand dunes. We stopped to enjoy the scene and to let the dogs run wild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sand-dune-dogs.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2326\" title=\"sand dune dogs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sand-dune-dogs.jpg?resize=559%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sand-dune-dogs.jpg?w=932&amp;ssl=1 932w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sand-dune-dogs.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sand-dune-dogs.jpg?resize=150%2C96&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was far too hot for December and it didn&#8217;t take long for the dogs to exhaust themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Mexicali is a typical ugly border town. We made our way quickly through it and on our way to Tecate. In between Mexicali and Tecate is a fairly treacherous leg of the journey called La Rumerosa. It&#8217;s a curvy and mountainous highway with little room for error. The views were incredible, but hard to appreciate when driving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/la-rumerosa.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2328\" title=\"la rumerosa\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/la-rumerosa.jpg?resize=565%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/la-rumerosa.jpg?w=930&amp;ssl=1 930w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/la-rumerosa.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/la-rumerosa.jpg?resize=150%2C87&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2329\" title=\"me and scout\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?resize=566%2C279&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?w=1171&amp;ssl=1 1171w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?resize=1024%2C505&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/me-and-scout.jpg?resize=150%2C74&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yun and I took a week vacay to Baja Norte (La Mision) for some much needed rest. We&#8217;ve never traveled to Baja before, so the trip was new. We traveled through Yuma on our way to Mexicali where we would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=2323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVHK-Bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}