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| Welcome to Loreto  Top three pictures are in the RV park.      This guy is ready for everything. Every square inch was used wisely.  |   After a short meeting at Auggie's we rambled around town. Some how we all managed to be together at dinner.      |
 It was a nice night. Shopping was decent, I bought a scarf, Baja T-shirt and a cap and T shirt for Bob.    |   Phone numbers and names to remember. Oscar was a good guy and his mother-in-law or suegra was the Señora that cooked lunch for us at the farm (rancho). Below, while in town a Mexican man asked to wash our truck for 50 pesos...thats $2.50...he worked on it for more than an hour so we paid him much more...Thank you!  This man wove blankets for a living. He followed in his family's foot steps. We will put this blanket in our truck. |
Mission San Javier Mission in the Sierra de La Gigantic, following was a farm lunch
  According to our guide Judy the painting to the right is the only painting that exists, world wide, that paints Jesus in the Trinity.    | The ride up to mission was beautiful. 
   Pictured to the left a Fig tree growing on rock near the mission. Above is very old olive tree.  |
This Ranch was called the Cheese Factory
 This is where I learned that even if a dog is blond, fuzzy, old, walks up to you slowly and looks like a Labrador retriever it isn't necessarily friendly. He tried to bite me! With a wet finger and no blood I left him to himself. No picture available. 
...window in the main dining area where the Señra made strong Mexican coffee for us.   | 
 The Señora's kitchen hot plate is ready in the cooking area. Above, the bed frame I believe was used in the hotter months. Below is their cooking water. Laundry room on left with cheese rags ready for production. and the stirring spoon at easy access.  ...a nice group of amigos...love you ladies!  Trish, Cathy and Lori |
To make goat cheese you need goat milk...need I say more?
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The raw milk was placed in the wash tub then covered. I believe next, it was left to ferment into curd and it was at this point she strained the extra liquid off the curds then placed curds in a rag bag squeezing the liquid out more. The bag was placed under the white plastic cover with a large square rock placed on top for weight. The overhead shelf held the cheese after the pressing stage was done. At this stage on the shelf it was left to hardened slightly. We ate this cheese at our following stop where lunch was served. Given the American in me and the fact that the FDA or food inspectors were not present I was a little creeped out eating it; with that I will say it was very white, the flavor was mild, the texture was quite soft and the taste very good. The whole experience was amazing and mind altering...minus the dog.
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