Most visitors and even permanent residents will never go up to the Pista Aerea, Cabo San Lucas’s small airport, at the top of Leona Vicario.  Many probably don’t even know there is an airport here in Cabo.  There is, but that’s another Oprah in itself.  Leona Vicario, after it passes the Bordo, is the main thoroughfare to the emerging communities that your workers live in.  It has transformed quickly over the years and is constantly growing north and outward from this traffic spine.  6 years ago the extent of dense populous residences was perhaps 2 miles south of the airport, today, it easily extends that distance or more northward, as well as filling out in either direction from this main drag. 

Wild Plum of baja fruit

During the summer months the fruit of the Cyrtocarpa edulis, the wild plums of Baja Sur mature.  Mexican families flock to the desert to gather these small fruit for their families’ free enjoyment.  Some walk the streets of Los Cabos selling the fruit by the bag full. The fruit is about an 1” to 1-1/4” in diameter, yellow to reddish orange when ripe that has a sweet-sour taste to its yellowish pulp.  They have a large brown pit or seed, which is also edible, that some say tastes similar to coconut.  If you have never tried some, do try it. They are a delicacy you can´t find anywhere but Baja California Sur!  And if you like jelly, they make a wonderful unique topping that goes great as a condiment with meat when made with vinegar or when sweetened, as a spread that my grandson enjoys on his peanut butter sandwiches.