Back to Baja

You did fairly decent coverage in your two stories on Mexico’s Baja peninsula (“What a Long, Strange Drive It’s Been,” Nov. 8 and “The Cabo Cure,” Dec. 13). For a third investigation of the lifestyle of Cabo San Lucas, I would like to suggest that you profile the colonia area, with its tar paper shacks and rutted dirt streets. What you’ll find are warm, dignified, handsome people who tend to smile a lot--whose children are spotlessly clean as they go off to school in fresh laundered clothes. These people are the real citizens of Los Cabos who lack virtually all we consider necessities but do not need or aspire to the garish, noisy, drink- and drug-propped pseudo life of the pampered tourist.

BOB RAITCH

Los Angeles