Before the filming starts we have the month of December to just travel. We are driving down to Baja California, Mexico. First we stopped in Bosque Del Apache National wildlife Refuge here in New Mexico. This is the wintering grounds for many waterfowl including over 50,000 Snow Geese. We got up in the dark to be there pre sunrise so we could watch when a flock of about 10,000 took off for the morning to go feed. It was spectacular to watch them all take flight at once. Many of them flew right over us only about 12 feet (3 meters) over are heads. It was amazing, you could feel the temperature drop by the moisture they added to the air as they took flight from the pond, we also felt the breeze from the beating of thousands of wings right above us. There were also several thousand Sandhill Cranes there. These birds are about a yard/meter tall and are one of my favorites. They are both prehistoric looking and very graceful. I’m sure it is hard to envision that if you haven’t seen them.
We spent one cold night camping in the mountains near Silver City and then head for the warmer climate of Mexico. San Felipe is a small town that occasionally swells with large number of tourist, fortunately not while we were there.
We have been in Baja for almost a week now. Baja is completely safe for traveling unlike other parts of Mexico near the US border. We discovered that although nothing was said on the internet or at the border, that we both will need a visa to go to Baja Sur, even though neither of us need them for the rest of Mexico. This means we won’t be getting as far south as we wanted or to the best Whale watching area. We have discovered that it still gets very cold here at nigh,t like 10 degrees, (OK, so that is Celsius which is about 50 F) how do people live with such cold. Claudia hates the cold even more then me, (I know its hard to believe). We have been camping in the truck half the time and getting a room half the time.
