Lunamar La Paz...Where the desert meets the tranquil sea

How Lunamar came to be:

Shortly after 9/11 I traded in my tickets to the Italian Riviera for a trip much closer to home, La Paz, Baja (the best-kept secret in Mexico).  I had fallen in love with La Paz on winter vacations there and had always dreamed of owning "my own little beach cottage" there one day.

Little did I know that on that trip my dear friend Carmen and I would purchase an abandoned wreck of an unfinished home that I would build to become my dream vacation get-away:  Lunamar...a 3-bdrm/3-bath trilevel with a million-dollar view of the Bay of La Paz and City lights.  The best time to visit is from late October through early June when the weather is warm and mild but with pleasant evening breezes.  December through February offers an opportunity to see the great gray whales migrate down to the bays of southern Baja.

The hot parched land stumbles down
to the sandy petticoat of an impossibly blue sea
joining thirstily
the two give birth to a city
of harsh roads and gentle people
who know the value of laughter                                                                               and share it freely
in sidewalk cafes and earth-colored homes
growing modestly from the proud paternal desert
Perched sphinx-like on her shoulder of the city
Lunamar gazes in fond witness on the
body below
an elemental unity
of earthen city, marine skies and azure sea
Inside, her riot of blues and violets
harmonize with terracotta, yellows and golds
circle up her stairs in drifting arpeggios
a pacifying paean to the harsh Aztec love
of a life-giving Grandfather Sun
Her visitors become her lovers
all sense of time and life rearranged
by her serenity
her beauty                               (Kathleen Jalalpour)