When we went to Los Cabos nearly two years ago, and stayed on the beach in San Jose Los Cabos, on the Sea of Cortez side. I did well fishing right outside our door. Bananas and plantains grew on the patio, so that was a lot of our meals. The best seafood we had was at the least expensive restaurant we visited, out a dirt road on the pier where the fishing boats docked in San Jose Los Cabos. There was a hurricane the day we went, so we walked in. Didn't matter, propane fueled the refer, the grill and the only lamp. Great fish and shrimp. There's nothing quite like seafood hot off the grill in an open-air cafe with an 80 mph wind blowing through. We'd have to duck occasionally when some of the folding chairs became airborne. We roughed it without a rental car for ten of our 14 days, and enjoyed the 14 mile round-trip walk to town to shop for groceries in the 120 degree August heat. It's an experience that makes you rethink buying milk by the gallon. Fortunately the Tecate and Corona beer exchange was across the stree from our place. San Jose LC had two fine tortilliarias and a great bakery for pan dulce and empanadas. And the local convenience store, about two miles away, had a shoe-box nearly full of produce every day, for about ten times our local prices at Luck-Safe. Usually there were chiles and carrots. Sometime a tomato or two.Eggs were sold by the flat out of doors, where they remained day and night without refrigeration. Twice we flagged down the local bus on the highway outside the condo and rode the 20 miles into Cabo San Lucas. We skipped any attempt at fine dining and went to fun spots. The Rio Grill with tripple happy-hour was a shot. The Gigling Marlin, where tourists are strung up from a block and tackle by their ankles to be photographed next to a large stuffed fish, sported similar composure. We loved the Shrimp Catcher, which served only steamed shirmp by the kilo, with four dipping sauces, supported by a full bar. With "older," un-airconditioned VW beetles running $120/day, we found the local equivalent of rent-a-wreck. For $35/day we piloted a mid-60s Chevy wagon with no side windows or functional shock absorbers on a adventure to La Paz and back, with a mid-trip stop at Todos Santos where we noshed from local food vendors. It was a great trip, filled with home cooked native foods, despite several days when the temperature, wind-speed and humidity all hovered between 80 and 100. And a charcoal grill replaced the inoperative electric appliance.
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