AMPI Rosarito Blog
Mexico, telling it like it is!
Culinary Tour of Baja, Mexico
Lured by spicy quail, tuna ceviche, and Mexico’s best fish tacos, T+L lights out for Ensenada—and from there, things just go south.
From May 2010 By Peter Jon Lindberg
Ensenada and the nearby Valle de Guadalupe, in northern Baja, are known outside Mexico for three things: the burgeoning local wine scene, which has been hyped ad infinitum; the food, which hasn’t been hyped enough; and the spectacularly bad roads, which everyone warns you about, though you never fully believe them.
How to launch a new life south of the border!
You Get Help from Someone Who Has Already Done It
By Víctor Loza

About 7-and-a-half years ago, I sat where you sit now, dreaming of a new life on a beach town. Back then, I'd been dreaming for years. My employer at the time gave me, finally, a deadline for making a move when he suggested I relocate from Los Angeles to San Diego, California, and then to Ensenada, Baja California Mexico to open a pilot communication earth station for satellite internet for the company.
I am thankful for this, for, had I not been handed this opportunity I probably will never had the chance to know that a cozy little town lay just south of U.S. – Mexico border, if it wasn’t for that I might still be in Los Angeles dreaming and fantasizing about leaving on the beach, instead of living on a perpetual vacation in Rosarito Beach.
Positive Article on Baja
The 2010 Renaissance: Tijuana/Baja California
“Why go there? You’ll find no one but drug lords and other bad guys.” This is so yesterday! The Tijuana of today is a center for gourmet dining, luxurious hotels, world-class artists and musicians, award-winning wines, excellent medical services, centers for scientific research, creative and value–priced home-furnishings (i.e., wrought iron, wood works, glass, pottery, marble, and tiles) plus rugged mountains for climbing and fabulous water for kayaking and surfing.
Getting and Going
Fly into the San Diego, CA, airport on Jet Blue, and Tijuana is an easy drive across the border. International visitors need a passport to purchase a visa (US$20 – cash) and bags may be searched. Depending on the time of the day and day of the week, there may be a long wait to cross from one country to the other; however, this is but a small inconvenience for getting to see the 2010 version of Tijuana.
Rosarito ─ “The Hollywood Connection”
Tourism is not new to Baja California or the Rosarito area. The first tourists to visit Rosarito arrived around 1874 to hunt and fish, but it was another 52 years, in 1926, that the Rosarito Beach Hotel was founded. The opening of this historic Hotel is generally credited with the beginning of the tourist period and was very much the forerunner in the development of the area.


