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Todos Santos - stay away!

pauldavidmena - 3-29-2017 at 05:52 AM

Just found this article online, declaring Todos Santos "Mexico's Magical Secret". A few more articles like this one and it's not going to be a secret much longer. Many would say that the cat is already out of the proverbial bag.

Lee - 3-29-2017 at 06:17 AM

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Just found this article online, declaring Todos Santos "Mexico's Magical Secret". A few more articles like this one and it's not going to be a secret much longer. Many would say that the cat is already out of the proverbial bag.

Relax Paul. It'll take more than a few fluff pieces to ruin TS. The cat got out of the bag years ago. Like a broken record, Todos is discovered every year by someone staying in Cabo.

Room for everyone down here. "Stay away?" Not really.

Lee - 3-29-2017 at 06:56 AM

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Started thinking this was meant as tongue in cheek. Not serious but a poke at those waking up to the magic of Todos.... a few years late. Right, Paul?

wilderone - 3-29-2017 at 07:18 AM

Si, let them go to TS - keeps them away from the real secret places.

pauldavidmena - 3-29-2017 at 07:24 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Lee

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Started thinking this was meant as tongue in cheek. Not serious but a poke at those waking up to the magic of Todos.... a few years late. Right, Paul?

Lee, you are correct - I was poking fun at the journal's "discovery", when I in fact didn't "discover" Todos Santos until ten or so years ago. So my "stay away" admonition isn't serious, since I'm planning to be one of the gringos putting up a shingle of my own one of these days.

rts551 - 3-29-2017 at 07:27 AM

You have lots of company. That place is infested with gringos.

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Quote: Originally posted by Lee

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Started thinking this was meant as tongue in cheek. Not serious but a poke at those waking up to the magic of Todos.... a few years late. Right, Paul?

tiotomasbcs - 3-29-2017 at 07:43 AM

Love the off months as many head north to their real homes. I beg to disagree, People hardly smile and say Buenos Dias anymore. But, of course, you weren't here when you actually knew local store owners and the dozen or so gringos. I retired here a long time ago, thankfully. Still good local Bajenos. And NO, I have never been to Baja Beans! Smiles. Tio

hondo - 3-29-2017 at 08:04 AM

Quote: Originally posted by wilderone

Si, let them go to TS - keeps them away from the real secret places.

I don't think there are many left.

philodog - 3-29-2017 at 08:38 AM

There are many, but being "secret" means you are going to have to work to find them!

pauldavidmena - 3-29-2017 at 12:40 PM

Quote: Originally posted by philodog

There are many, but being "secret" means you are going to have to work to find them!

or wait for the next online travel fluff piece?

baron - 3-29-2017 at 03:51 PM

Y'all might want to contact me for the perfect secluded 550sq meter lot for sale 2km north of town. I've owned it for 20 yrs. Water power septic

monoloco - 3-29-2017 at 06:14 PM

Quote: Originally posted by rts551

You have lots of company. That place is infested with gringos.

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Quote: Originally posted by Lee

Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena

Started thinking this was meant as tongue in cheek. Not serious but a poke at those waking up to the magic of Todos.... a few years late. Right, Paul?

At least it's not as bad as Los Barriles, where the gringo/Mexican ratio is so completely inverted, that no one seems to feel the need to use Spanish with the locals anymore, and most of them spend their day driving their $20k Baja wheel chair from their walled compound to the ATM then cruising the beach the rest of the day.(end of grumpy old man rant)

Lee - 3-29-2017 at 09:13 PM

Lived in Todos one Winter. Dogs barked all night, weekend music till 2,3,4 a.m., roosters start about 3 a.m. 5 mutts next door would go crazy whenever I went or came home. Give me gringoes anytime.

windgrrl - 3-30-2017 at 04:34 AM

Emerged from Los Barriles for a day trip in February and "discovered" Todos Santos & Cerritos. Even did the Hotel California thing. I was very impressed by the area compared to Los Barriles which has changed for the worse in the last 5 years IMHO. The ATVs have ruined the beach in LB and you take your life in your hands if you want to walk down the beach, er, road/speedway at almost any hour of the day. At least most people people don't venture far from the town...lots of less trampled quiet places out in the desert is one is willing to go on foot.

Cancamo - 3-30-2017 at 07:42 AM

TS and LB both done years ago, put a fork in em both. No longer Mexico, extensions of Santa Fe and Palm Springs. Sad.

David K - 3-30-2017 at 08:07 AM

Isn't it amazing how people move somewhere because they like it better... then they change the place to be like where they came from!??

Of the one Mexican thing that people above are not liking: If they didn't want quads and Jeeps driving on the beach, they could stop that easily. I suspect the local police want to stay in good grace with the rich American and Canadians?

pauldavidmena - 3-30-2017 at 09:43 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Isn't it amazing how people move somewhere because they like it better... then they change the place to be like where they came from!??

It's definitely ironic that many gringos (like me) come to Baja to escape the rat race but can't get by without high-speed internet and WiFi.

Lee - 3-30-2017 at 10:02 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Of the one Mexican thing that people above are not liking: If they didn't want quads and Jeeps driving on the beach, they could stop that easily. I suspect the local police want to stay in good grace with the rich American and Canadians?

Wish it could be that easy. The police have zero interest in stopping traffic on the beaches here. I've stopped caring. Gill nets out front? Just the way it is down here.

Can't speak about LB, Todos has been compared to Santa Fe for years. It's marketing. Not even close. Love it or hate it, it does have a charm. Not for everyone.

monoloco - 3-30-2017 at 08:12 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Isn't it amazing how people move somewhere because they like it better... then they change the place to be like where they came from!??

Of the one Mexican thing that people above are not liking: If they didn't want quads and Jeeps driving on the beach, they could stop that easily. I suspect the local police want to stay in good grace with the rich American and Canadians?

The police here have their hands full with sicarios, thieves, and drug dealers.

bajabuddha - 3-30-2017 at 10:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Isn't it amazing how people move somewhere because they like it better... then they change the place to be like where they came from!?

In the intermountain west it's called "Kalifornication".

David K - 3-31-2017 at 08:03 AM

People from anywhere else... they come to Florida, California, Mexico, etc. and change what has been good for decades to the mess they came from. California was once on top with schools, opportunity, freedom and now the east coast leftists have ruined it and we must go to Arizona, Texas, Colorado, or ?? to have what we once had here.

bajabuddha - 3-31-2017 at 09:49 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

People from anywhere else... they come to Florida, California, Mexico, etc. and change what has been good for decades to the mess they came from. California was once on top with schools, opportunity, freedom and now the east coast leftists have ruined it and we must go to Arizona, Texas, Colorado, or ?? to have what we once had here.

And I thought it was The Governator that bankrupted you. Pinocchio Of The Week Award :lol:

"east coast leftists"... oh my sides hurt... :lol:

...rich... :lol: