Baja Online Realty Blog Serving the Baja California Real Estate Community : The Other Immigration Problem: Gringos in Baja By Valerie Rapp

Baja Online Realty Blog Serving the Baja California Real Estate Community : The Other Immigration Problem: Gringos in Baja By Valerie Rapp: The Other Immigration Problem: Gringos in Baja By Valerie Rapp January 31, 2012 | (0) Comments Share | | Baja California is a stark, surreal landscape, a desert peninsula surrounded by saltwater on three sides. Its mountainous backbone is as sharply serrated as a horned lizard’s back. Mexico Hwy. 1 traverses rocky slopes with cardón cacti that look like saguaros on steroids; gnarled elephant trees, four hundred years old and twenty feet tall; and boojum trees, an odd plant in the Fouquieria family that looks straight out of a Dr. Seuss book. These desert plants, which spend their lives in constant, patient quest for drops of moisture, overlook abundant water of the most brilliant turquoise and deep blues, all of it saltwater. Rain, when it falls in the Baja desert, is a blessing or a problem.