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Puerto Penasco, Mexico

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 02:23AM

I had forgotten what Southern California would be like were there not for Colorado water irrigation. I was told in my high school days that San Diego, Los Angeles and most other Southern California cities would not exist in the same form they are now, mainly because it is a semi-arid terrain. I was so ecologically and topographically naive! I never actually believed there could be desert-desert-desert- then OCEAN until I went to Dubai last year and saw vast stretches of beach, dune, tumbleweed, cactus, all alongside the Arabian gulf, with more building of hotels and office buildings there than once could imagine. I thought I would never see anything like that duplicated here, so close to home, but I did -- this weekend, in Puerto Penasco, Mexico -- only about 3 hours from where I LIVE, in Tucson.

Puerto Penasco, or Rocky Point as it is called by us Gringos, was once a sleepy little coast town where Spring Break partiers would go, drink, fall asleep on the beach, then get up and live another day on the dunes of Margaritaville. Now, everything has changed.

There are huge hotel after huge hotel going up on beaches almost as far as the eye can see, Dune Buggies race up and don the sand dunes, parasailing, heliskiing, jetskis, sailboats and yachts all can be seen, eah day, racing up and down the Gulf of California, while those who have bought their portion of paradise in their condo-hotel,or fractional, look on. Here's a taste:

I asked our driver who had lived in Puerto Penasco for five years, if he ever had met a person who had been born and raised there, and he said no, everyone who lives here comes from somewhere else. A a major condo-hotel and fractional developer told me there was literally NO unemployment in Puerto Penasco -- there were too many jobs and not enough people.

Puerto Penasco had a Dubai feel to it, really -- as once cab driver told me when I was there last year, "Camels yesterday, Ferraris today." There are no Ferraris as yet in Rocky Point, but the change from arid desert to hotel/condo-hotel/villa residence/fractional haven is palpable. The COMING SOON development signs are everywhere, stuck on the beach sand. I sensed, were I return within a few months, not a few years, I would not know the place. It is an overwhelming feeling watching such a growth process, it is like experiencing the process and the product of a fast-forward button all at once. Look quick! Civilization on the move!!

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