Cathy's Cornucopia: Cabo San Lucas: On our own

October 9, 2009

Since this was our third trip to Cabo, we decided to skip doing any tours in this port. Our first trip was here was 6 years ago, and our second trip was 2-1/2 years ago. Boy, has Cabo changed! When we were there the first time, most of the path around the harbor was hard-packed dirt and cobblestones. Flea market vendors lined the path with their wares set out on blankets. The second time, there was the start of a nice cement path round the harbor and a terminal cruise ship building (“meet your tour bus in the parking lot behind the terminal building”). Flea market vendors still lined the path. This year when we were in Cabo, the path around the harbor was twice as long, and the parking lot behind the cruise ship building was gone – it now was the site of an indoor flea market. No more vendors sitting on the path around the harbor.

As we were walking along the harborside path, Craig saw someone with a Starbucks cup. Not to miss an opportunity to have another Frappuccino, he stopped them and asked where the Starbucks was located. They gave us directions (“Go down about to there and then turn to the left. You can’t miss it.”) and we were off. Well, after about 10 minutes, we weren’t sure we hadn’t missed it when, all of a sudden, I noticed the familiar Starbucks logo on the side of the building on the right. We again got our regular Frappuccinos and then continued looking at all the shops along the way. Cabo is doing a lot of road construction so all the roads were closed to traffic. It made going from one side of the street to the other side as shop owners kept trying to entice us in to see what they had for sale (mostly silver jewelry, it seemed).

We finished our shopping and were tendering back to our ship when I realized that our snap camera (the one we had asked people to use to take our picture) was set to close-up pictures. This meant that all pictures taken with the snap camera were blurry and unusable. So, I reset the camera to normal picture-taking, and Craig suggested we drop off our purchased items in our cabin and then tender back across to Cabo since we still had 2 hours before we had to be on the ship. Then, we could take the pictures that were blurry again. Great idea, so that is what we did.

Happy Craig again -- with another Green Tea Frappuccino: