Baja--The Other California

April, 1971

Thirty years ago, when John Steinbeck returned home from a trip to the Baja peninsula in a Monterey fishing boat, he predicted that before very long this primeval finger of isolated Mexican territory would be transformed into another Florida resortland. It seemed a fairly safe prophecy, given the talent and proclivities of man for "improving" his natural environment, but Steinbeck's forecast proved unduly dire. Mercifully, this pristine land was regarded as irredeemable desert, and mos...