Flying south - CABO DAY 1

Travel day.  Of course, filled with anticipation, but also chaos.

It is very cold and windy in Denver.  I-70 andI -76 are both closed due to weather.  A great time to fly south to the heat of the Baja and the Sea of Cortez!

This was the view over Central Colorado as we headed towards Phoenix to change planes.

Snowy Colorado Christmas

We had a twenty minute lay-over in Phoenix, and then an almost empty plane to Mexico.  Marci and I were able to move to the exit row and shared a ton of room and great service on our two hour flight to Cabo.

Our arrival at Cabo airport was mostly uneventful.  I say mostly because we were "randomly chosen" for Customs screening and were VERY surprised when the agent pulled an "adult oriented" game from our luggage and asked Marci about it. This was when we realized that I'd grabbed someone else's identical bag.  I had to run back and exchange it with another worried (then embarrassed) American couple.  Ughhh...

The trip from the airport to Cabo is pretty long.  It is about 45km, but very heavy traffic.  We paid $17 per person for a very new and very clean shuttle.  I highly recommend this option.  As it is Dec 23rd, there are many booths selling Christmas lights.

We arrived at our Hotel (The Seven Crown) and after struggling to locate our reservation, we checked in to a small, clean, and LOUD room for $55 night.  It is close to the Marina and very safe, so cool enough!

We walked two blocks, found a nice (but very American style) brew pub and had a great dinner. I had fresh octopus (Cabo is known for the huge variety of fresh fish).  Marci had a hamburger.  Of course we both had beer, tequilla, and sangrita.  Yumm!