Howdy! I'm really happy to find this site, and hopefully I can utilize it to realize my Baja California Sur aspirations! I've visited a lot of places but I swore I'd never live anywhere but Texas (except for ETX - that region doesn't settle with my tastes). I cannot stress enough about how that was my attitude. I race cars and while participating in an open road race down the Baja Peninsula in July 2018, I fell in love with it. Things here aren't going quite as I'd hoped for this stage of my life and I looked at all my friends who travel extensively and take interesting leaps of faith in moving, adventures, and travel and asked myself, "Why not you?"
Originally from Meadows Place, TX (near Houston), I moved to College Station, TX.
My first degrees were in English and Education and, after 10 years of teaching HS English in public school in Houston, I realized it wasn't for me after all. Moved to College Station to go to A&M for a couple of degrees in Ecological Restoration, Rangeland Ecology & Management, and Watershed Management. Then...the Baja race, and my life was forever changed.
Ideally I'd be able to find a job with ecological restoration - perhaps concentrating on invasive species prevention - somewhere near Loreto but I'm open to some other towns, I just don't want to live in Tijuana, especially not now.
Still working on my Spanish (after major fails in both HS and college) and I get MUCH better while I'm there (obvs). The Spanglish here in TX is close but can get you into trouble with the regional variations in definitions. Getting help from my Ensenada, Tijuana, and Rosarito friends is good. Not confident that it's good enough to move just yet.
That's it, I guess. Glad to be here and read posts from people more experienced than myself.
Texas Girl with Baja Dreams!
Welcome, Angie,
The racing cars thing would be very limited, so don't count on that. Except for the toll highways, roads are not a priority here. So although I have a race history also, I usually don't get to use it for actual racing. As far as I'm concerned going places is more important, yet I still want to have a more performance type car, no junkers or family sedans for me.
I definitely don't recommend going over 110 k on the roads or highway I was replacing tires on every 6-month return to the border until I accepted that reality. Seeing a guy in a sports sedan fly by me in a heavy rain, then encountering him a few miles later having obviously flipped and rolled that car on a small pond that had formed on the hwy cemented in that thought.
There is a lot of environmental stuff being done, and there are a lot of college courses and schools here that are involved in the environment.
As for the language, formal training in the U.S. is not all that helpful. Much of it really doesn't apply to the language as it is spoken here. The locals in Rosarito and TJ often speak English.
Oh, all of our races are sanctioned by FEMDAC. We have the cooperation of the Mexican government. They assist us with closing the roads on speed stages and escorting us in transit. We do Chihuahua Express every year as well.
I have friends in Ensenada and Tijuana who are helping me with the language. I'm coming along, albeit slowly!
Thanks for the reply! I appreciate the information!
I know that about races, I have experience with races. but given that you seem to be planning to move to Mexico I felt that you should know that race courses are a major exception road wise. Life is not 24/7 on a race course.
Hola señorita my Mexican wife and I recently moved and built a home in Mexico Costalegre paraíso. Grew up in Galveston but spent most of my life on Maui. Gotta admit haven't found a place that comes close to matching the beauty of the coast here. Might wanna check the beaches of Jalisco before making your decision. Aloha y adios
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