The sound a whale makes when she blows right thar, on the other hand, is just like the one made by those high-pressure fire extinguishers: an assertive whoosh.

It’s simple freedoms, strong pull of history, and mixture of terrains create a love for Baja that only those who have seen can truly understand.

Its untouched landscapes, ranging from mountains, deserts, washes, and beaches, are only occupied by small local towns and scattered ruins. The images of beautiful landscapes, that can no longer be found in California, remain untouched. With washes that stretch for miles and beaches so beautiful you will never want to leave, you can find yourself going farther and farther south into more and more diverse and majestic places. In a day you can pass through deserts with cactus twice your size, mountains with cliffs that drop hundreds of feet and still make it to that little fishing village on the water.

“Trying to remember the Gulf,” Steinbeck wrote lovingly of this gulf, “is like trying to re-create a dream.”