Back from … Cabo?

It hasn’t quite been the week of rest and relaxation I’d hoped for, after the launch of Ourmedia and before the publication of my book Darknet in a couple of weeks. First, the first leg of our SFO to LAX to Loreto, Mexico, flight on Alaska Airlines was canceled because of mechanical reasons — leaving us stranded in San Francisco for a night. Because Alaska Airlines flies into Loreto (on the Baja Peninsula’s east coast) only twice a week, that meant we couldn’t get there for four more days.

So we decided at the ticket counter to go to Cabo San Lucas instead — we needed sun! I spent a couple of hours online researching places to stay, and we booked three nights at the Pueblo Bonito Blanco on a scenic stretch of beach near Cabo’s landmark Los Archos. (I’ll post a photo album sometime in the next week or so.) We had a fun, relaxing time with our 6-year-old, frolicking in the surf, snorkeling and knocking back chi-chis. On the last night, at a Mexican restaurant downtown called Mi Casa, I got a mild bout of food poisoning, which knocked me for a loop but didn’t prevent me from getting on a plane from Oakland to New Jersey early Friday morning after touching down in San Francisco only 15 hours before.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.