Until sunset erin bedford ebook hunter3/19/2023 ![]() With an ear-piercing screech, the door gave way, along with the doorjamb and half the molding. The door was stubborn and wouldn’t give to all of Dick’s tugging, so he climbed in through the back window and pushed from the inside. It was then that I found out that the pretty grasses I had admired waving in the breeze were really foxtails.įinally, the moment I had been waiting for, my first view of my place in Mexico. Unfortunately, the same winter rains which had nourished the earth had also caused the dirt road which wound up the hill to our lot to become so rutted that we had to park at the bottom of the hill and hike up, carrying our provisions. Natural vegetation of maguey, cactus and tall grasses glowed in the late afternoon sun from vermilion to forest green. The recent winter storms had brought the fleeting spring greenery to La Bufadora. We arrived at La Bufadora shortly before sunset. He shook his head mournfully, obviously I wasn’t the L.L.Bean girl of his dreams, and I suddenly realized this wasn’t going to be like staying at the Hilton, the Holiday Inn, or even like my grandpa’s trailer in a stateside retirement park. “There’s no water” he replied as he added the kerosene lanterns to the pile of things to go. Two five-gallon jugs of water were the first items in the truck. I watched as Dick packed the pick-up with supplies. My first overnighter at La Bufadora occurred in early March. I hadn’t really spent any time there before we said “I Do”, but shortly after our vows I found out what “The Place” was all about. ![]() When I married Dick I became a proud partner in one of the most mystical possessions – A Place in Mexico. ![]() Click for Interactive Map of Baja California Peninsula My husband, Dick and I took the most common method to home building in Baja, which is to say the tried and true “add-on” method. ![]() This entails buying an old trailer, finding the perfect lot for it, and going from there, which usually means adding a room to the front, a bathroom to the back, building a cistern on a hill behind the trailer for gravity feed water and praying it doesn’t leak, building a septic tank down the hill below the trailer and praying the lines don’t clog, (Important note here – whenever possible in Baja, do not put the paper in the toilet), oh yes, and to really finish the job, have a blow-out of a party. These gentlemen started their homes from scratch, using actual house plans and the foreknowledge of what they would end up with (more or less) at the end of construction.Īnother method of home building is the “add-on” method. Gomez, Ben Hunter did the same in his book, The Baja Feeling. Jack Smith of Los Angeles Times, joyfully chronicled his home building adventures in his book, God and Mr. Anyone you talk to in Baja with a roof over their head has a story or two to go with the roof. ![]()
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