TRAVEL CLUB INSURANCE UPDATES: SENTRI Discount for Save The Date! Auto Insurance and new Homeowners Policies If you have a SENTRI pass, we now have a discounted DBTC Holiday FIESTA 365-day auto insurance policy for you! While we realize it slls feels We’re pleased to announce that insurance underwriter like summer here in Southern ACE is now offering homeowners policies to Discover Baja California, and we hate that members. This opens up new opons and different COSTCO has had the Christmas coverage for homeowners. trees up since August just as much as you do, we know you’d Please call our office at 800.727.2252 or email us at be disappointed if you missed [email protected] for more informaon or a quote. out on the annual Discover Baja holiday fiesta, so save the date! Via Internacional Expect delicious Mexican food, drinks and merriment. If you’re Now Reopened! interested in being a vendor, The new and improved please email us at Via Internacional in [email protected]. More Tijuana is now details to come soon! reopened in both st direcons making for Sunday, December 1 easy access to the San (aernoon/evening-ish) Ysidro border crossing. DBTC offices: 3264 Governor Dr. DBTC Insider Tip: Forms for Vehicle, Boat San Diego, CA 92122 or Motorhome Temporary Importaon Use this link to save yourself some me by compleng the PESO EXCHANGE RATE: forms for importaon before stopping at immigraon. 13.1 to $1 U.S. dollar hps://www.banjercito.com.mx/registroVehiculos/ Use for the following: If you transport boat parts between the U.S. and Mexico PEMEX PRICES: If you keep a boat at marina in Baja Magna: $3.38/gal If you’re traveling with a vehicle, boat or motorhome to Premium: $3.53/gal mainland Mexico Diesel: $3.51/gal ON OUR RADAR FOR OCTOBER OCT 4-6 OCT 5 Enjuanarte Mariachi y Ballet enjuanarte.org Folklorico Concert Tijuana cultural 6pm center, CECUT Rosarito Beach Hotel Fesval exhibing rosaritobeachmariachifolkloricofesval.com and selling art from The grand concert of the 3-day fesval local and foreign featuring the Mariachi Divas and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan arsts OCT 9-13 OCT 12 Tijuana Tequila Expo Tecate 121st Anniversary expo-tequila.com Benito Juarez park in Tecate Revolución Ave. th th Celebrate Tecate’s between 7 and 8 anniversary with arts and A family-friendly event cras, Mexican food, live with food, informaon music and local arsts. Fun about Tequila and for the whole family. Tequila tasngs! OCT 13 OCT 14 Puerto Nuevo Discovering Baja Meetup Lobster at Paradise Cove Fesval bit.ly/1dMVZ7S 12-6pm If you’re in Rosarito, Join Lobster, drinks Jen and other Baja lovers for and shopping in a fun night of mingling, the lobster drinks, apps and Monday capital of Baja! night football OCT 24-27 OCT 26 Baja Culinary Fest Discover Baja bcculinaryfest.com Guadalupe Valley Special fesval Wine Trip celebrang Baja Med Join DBTC for a trip to the Guadalupe cuisine in northern Baja Valley for a day of wine-tasng followed Special dinners, cooking by a lobster dinner with margaritas in classes, compeons and Puerto Nuevo music. Please see our arcle on the next page Saturday, Oct. 26th Come spend a day experiencing Mexico’s Napa Valley with Discover Baja and Baja Custom Tours! Enjoy a day with us in Baja’s Guadalupe Valley Tour includes: as we explore some of the wineries and aracons that the region has to offer. We’ll Wine tasng at two wineries – provide the round-trip transportaon, a tour L.A. Ceo and Las Nubes the new Museum of Wine and Vine, tasngs at Behind-the-scenes tour at L.A. two wineries, tradional Mexican lunch at a local restaurant, a behind-the-scenes winery Ceo, one of the oldest and tour and a local wine guide to help explain largest wineries in Baja everything in English. Oh, and a full lobster Tradional homemade, sit-down dinner with endless margaritas in Puerto lunch in Guadalupe Valley Nuevo to top it all off. Guided tour of the new Wine $145 for Discover Baja members ($165 for and Vine Museum non-members). For More Informaon: hp:// bit.ly/15tV72I Local wine expert Lobster dinner with margaritas We only have a few spaces le so call or email today to book your spot! in Puerto Nuevo [email protected] or 800.727.2252 Round trip transportaon from Discover Baja offices in San Diego The DBTC Guide to: Dia de los Muertos Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico on November 1st and 2nd to remember friends and family members who have passed away. It’s a bright, colorful and flavorful celebraon. (If you can’t make it down to Baja but you’re in the Southern California area, there’s a wonderful Day of the Dead celebraon at the San Luis Rey Mission in Oceanside on Oct. 27 from 10-5). See our guide below, which explains some of the tradions of the holiday. ALTARS People build elaborate altars in their homes and in cemeteries to honor the deceased. Photos of the deceased, crosses and marigolds decorate the altars. “Ofrendas” (offerings) of gis, food, sweets and alcohol are le for the spirit of the deceased. Skulls made of sugar are SUGAR adorned with candy and PAN DE MUERTO are used to decorate Pan de Muerto is a sweet altars as well as serving bread eaten on Dia de los SKULLS as a delicious treat! Muertos. It is decorated with bone-like pieces. José Guadalupe Posada illustrated the original CATRINAS “Calavera de la Catrina” (below) in 1910 as a parody of the upper- class. Since then, the Catrina calaveras have Altars are MARIGOLDS become a symbol for Dia decorated with de los Muertos. “flor de muerto” (marigolds) which are thought to aract the souls of the deceased to the offerings. We’re pleased to announce the beginning of a new series by David Kier about the missions of Baja California. David published his first Baja guidebook at the age of 15 and has been wring and publishing ever since. In 2012, he teamed up with history authors Kurillo and Tule to write ‘The Old Missions of Baja & Alta California, 1697-1834’. The book is available for purchase at the DBTC offices (call 800-727-2252). David maintains the website vivabaja.com to share his travels and more! You can follow along with the series to learn about the San Ignacio Mission history of all of the Baja California missions on the DBTC blog and in future newsleers. By David Kier The following 70 years, 17 would be following Royal One of history’s greatest missions were founded by the direcves. One of these was to endeavors was the Jesuits on the peninsula. They push the mission system into establishment of the mission also had built a ’Royal Highway’ the lands north of the peninsula system in Baja California. When called El Camino Real to and quickly establish missions it began in 1697, California was connect the missions and their at the harbors of San Diego and believed by many to be an satellite sub-missions, called Monterey (the bay of San island and as remote from Spain ’visitas’ which supported the Francisco was not yet as Mars is today from Earth. head mission, called a discovered). This new land was The goal was to occupy the land ‘cabecera‘. first called Nueva (New) for the king and convert the California and the peninsula With polical changes going on nave populaon to Chrisanity was known as Angua (Old) in Europe, the Jesuit success in and the European style of living. California. Before long, the the New World became names would change to Alta The Jesuit Order was given the suspect. Rumors of wealth (Upper) California and Baja task to establish these missions acquired in the new lands that (Lower) California. as they had been successful on were never proven, had caused the mainland of Mexico. their expulsion to be ordered in Just five years aer the Because all previous aempts 1767. All the Jesuits in California Franciscans arrived, they at colonizing the peninsula had were marched to Loreto, and in requested to be relieved of the failed, the Jesuits made special February, 1768 sailed to the Baja California missions, demands to have complete mainland where they would including the first one they had autonomy in the project. The walk across Mexico and join the founded at Velicatá named San king agreed, but the Jesuits other Jesuits in sailing back to Fernando. The Dominicans would have to finance the Europe. would take over operaon of operaon with private money. the Baja California missions and Benefactors came forward and The Franciscan Order would be establish nine more between donated to a ‘Pious Fund’ which next on the peninsula, but San Fernando de Velicatá and financed building the missions. without the autonomy and San Diego from 1774 to 1834. Mexico had won its Baja California has a story to tell The Franciscans who learned independence from Spain in and many books from grand well of the mistakes made by 1821, but California was so intellectual masterpieces to their predecessors had greater remote, the Dominicans and small paperback guides have success in Alta California. This Franciscans were allowed to been wrien on the subject. success lasted unl Mexico’s connue their efforts for many Changes in informaon on the secularizaon act (issued in years following Mexico’s missions have been made as old 1832) ended the mission system independence.