La Paz, The Peace, on this inlet of the spirits on the southern end of Mexico’s Baja, has all the extreme edges of John Steinbeck’s depictions in The Pearl. And yet there exists a soft and luminous glisten here that is irresistible. Possibly it is the preserved quaintness that calls from the Malecon, or maybe the steady calm that comes from the Sea. Locate La Paz just shy of 1,000 miles from San Diego, CA or a 16-hour overnight ferry-trip ride from Mazatlan.

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