A Day in the “Other” Cabo

We drove south about 60 miles to San Jose Del Cabo, historic urban center for the south cape of Baja. San Jose, as it’s referred to locally, is where the “Cabo” airport is, about 40 miles north of the other Cabo, Cabo San Lucas where most of the fly-in visitors end up, as well as those arriving on cruise ships. It’s this second Cabo that includes the famous rock arch you see in all the travel photo ads.

We’d heard the historic center of San Jose is worth seeing and that there are a number of interesting art shops just north of the center, so we thought we’d check it out. This also allowed us to go to the only RV supply store in Baja for some supplies. We went to the RV place first, did our business, then asked the proprietor for a local lunch recommendation. We ended up at “Milo’s” just down the block, an outdoor palapa-covered restaurant with about 15 white plastic tables and colorful table cloths. We were the only gringos there during our whole meal, which suggested we’d found a true Mexican restaurant. Cathryn had shrimp ball soup, with shrimps wrapped in rice balls in a spicy red sauce base, and Bob had chicken fajitas. Some of the best food of the trip so far. As you can see from the photo, the place had a Seattle connection. The proprietor’s sister lives in Kent, Washington where he has visited several times.

After lunch we headed downtown and wandered around for an hour or so, but didn’t really see much to capture our interest. To the south of the main square the stores sold standard tourist stuff, and the art stores to the north seemed mostly uninspired and overpriced. We soon tired of the tour and headed back home to Los Barriles.

We ended the day with a beer on the roof-top deck, although we have to admit we were a bit bundled up. After all it never got above 72 today and was very windy.