![]() ![]() That “levelling wind” cleans the tracks off dunes and beaches, rips the paper off roofs, enters the cracks between walls and windows, keeps one inside reading Thoreau or making tortilla soup. Those lines from "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" always remind me of my former home. Winter winds may blow for days out of the north. Summer winds may spring up off the sea, bring moisture from the south, or swing west out of the parching desert. At any season the climate can seduce the visitor with incomparable calm and sparkling days and nights. ![]() Weather on Baja’s northeast coast is also impossible to pin down. The idea of camp after all is playfulness, spontaneity, and freedom. Such shelters are a light-hearted balance to some of the resource-gobbling concrete mansions being built in other Baja locations. My solar house 30 miles south of San Felipe was built of recycled wood and windows the previous owners started with a room next to a trailer, added another room, removed the trailer, added a sundeck, etc. Without a lot of building codes and inspectors, it’s possible to be creative and experiment with materials and design. Many places are upbeat and cheerful, with a style that’s impossible to pin down. There are tiny houses two-story houses trailers rooms joined to trailers ramadas with water tanks on top and parking for a motorhome or trailer underneath. There are houses with solar systems big enough to run just about any appliance found in a luxury home on the electricity grid, but most places are "sustainable" in the sense that they satisfy essential human needs without requiring an excess of space, energy, and maintenance. Living is casual in these "campos turisticos," and there is a diversity of house sizes and styles. ![]() On the Gulf of California coast south of San Felipe, people use solar panels and backup generators for energy. ![]()
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