La Paz and Loreto

Cities are mainly for eating and the occasional museum for our family. Luckily there are few museums to choose from in Baja. So we eat!

Fish tacos, the occasional bakery, a pizza place. These are the establishments our family can handle. No fine dining for us at this time in our lives!!

We went out for dinner once on this trip- to a wood fired pizza oven restaurant. At one point it appeared Adela was ready to stand on her chair while Zosia was pretend(?) falling asleep i my arms- it was 7:36pm folks. We are just not in the phase of life of treating ourselves to an inventive seafood dinner with oysters as the appetizer!

But we’ve eaten out for many lunches- tasting many delicious fish and shrimp tacos, queso birria, wood fired concha bread, and we’ve learned that we need to order flour tortillas 1kg (2.2lbs) at a time.

Not many souvenirs to be purchased as everything is imported from the mainland and not representative of the local artisans. But smoked yellow tail fish and cactus wood are very representative! So we’ve brought some of that home with us.

And then we also have some museums.

Of the museums whose opening days happened to match up with the days we were visiting the city, I most enjoyed the whale museum in La Paz.

Museums and funding for the sciences is so important. I am very nervous hearing that a lot of funding for museums and research is being slashed. It is extremely expensive to keep artifacts preserved and further research, but it’s the access to this information and knowledge that spurs higher thinking and curiosity. It is my worst fear that people are and will continue to succumb to consumerism, self-idolization, and boredom.

My fascination and curiosity with science started in my 8th grade environmental science class with Mr. Birdman at Andries Hudde Middle School. Learning about the reason for the phases of the moon, geology, ocean currents, and the earth’s cycles.

That class always left me so curious. When applying for college I wasn’t sure what my exact path should be, but studying geological oceanography and then geotechnical engineering made me pretty happy. (Later I made a tangent to learning disabilities and was pretty thrilled too!)

So more science and more museums is my answer! It’s what I turn to when I don’t know how to entertain the girls.

I’ll be honest, they don’t ask me to deep dive about rainforest animals or how a dam works, but they do listen patiently for the 1st 30 seconds when I explain something that fascinates me…like multiple rows of teeth!

Loreto was also very enjoyable due to its gorgeous mission church and plethora of dining options. But we had less time there and somehow very little photos taken…so just a couple of photos of the beautiful mission church.