Only 252 miles today but 132.3 of those miles were some of the most knarly off road miles we've ever done. At some points the trail had the truck tipped to what seemed like 45 degrees while cactus and other various branches were scraping both sides of the vehicle. 
Now, it just could be that we took a slight deviation from the optimum route to find some of the almost impassible paths, but who knew? We were warned that there were rough spots and boy, is that an understatement! We did meet a touring French couple that took 2 days to do what we did in one…
Unfortunately the pictures can't come close to doing it justice.
We did make one short stop enroute. San Rafael has 2 or 3 houses and a shack or two all located in a beautiful little bay. We talked to one of the locals who was telling us that you can catch halibut just fishing from the beach. Apparently he catches them all of the time when he's not diving for shellfish. Wish we could have stayed longer and caught some fish ourselves.
We arrived in Santa Rosalita and headed straight for our favorite, Hotel El Morro. It was late afternoon and approaching cocktail hour. After that long and dusty trail, we were ready! The restaurant at El Morro had been under remodeling for the last 3 years. We were surprised and pleased to see the remodel was finally complete. It's hours of operation perfectly fit the time that we had completed settling into our room. We spent the rest of the evening wining and dining.
Santa Rosalia was first settled by the French for copper mining. Quite an interesting place with a mixture of French and Spanish architecture. A working town that is trying to reestablish the mining operation.
Tomorrow is a short drive down the east coast to Loretto for a couple of days before we move on to Cabo to meet up with our daughter and her friends.
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