I like to take off for more southern climes in mid winter. Kay acquiesces. We like to escape "cabin fever" when the incessant snow begins to become unbearable. Naturally, the reservations for sunny skies and warm breezes are made far in advance. This, up to last month, is the winter that wasn't, at least here. Winter Aconite bloomed in January (rather then at the end of March here) and Crocus leaves sprouted just after the Forsythia and flowering plums partially bloomed. Snow cover usually measured in feet, was minimal. We used to live in Buffalo, NY. We snickered at the news reports of their seven feet of snow in five days while we received but a few inches. It snowed north of us. It snowed south of us. We missed, .....no that is not the phrase. We reveled in being missed.
Reservations made, deposits deposited, we went south, or tried to. Our escape trip this year started out most inauspiciously. The first day's flight was cancelled due to weather at the other end. The next day it took about an hour to de-ice the plane. The takeoff was then aborted. Naturally we then missed our connecting flight. We had waits of over two hours at the second airport and, instead of a single non-stop to our destination, over four hours at a third airport. I got Kay upgraded to the last available seat up front for the next two legs. She was too tired to do justice to the meals they served there while I munched on pretzels in the back of the plane. The sacrifices one makes for love. We finally arrived at San José del Cabo, at the southern tip of Baja California Sur, a day and a half after we were supposed to, late enough to just go to bed exhausted.
Hotel plantings consisted of the usual warhorses of Hibiscus, Bougainvillea and Bird of Paradise with a copious [BCRed.JPG] interleaving of Cactus, Agaves and Aloe. The few flowering plants that were probably native were totally unfamiliar. Palm trees were everywhere. No snow. Blue skies. Sunshine. Marguerites and Cerveza. We had escaped.
After a brief recuperation, we boarded our small ship for a cruise on the Sea of Cortéz. Baja California Sur is predominantly desert and mountainous. I was most surprised when deposited on remote beaches to see a proliferation of
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