Jan 1, 2022, Cabo – a place that still has fun

Music pulsed into the night air. The sound of drums, guitars and voices echoed into the dark. We sat on our balcony and could feel the energy of the city, the air was alive.

I felt alive.

Cabo San Lucas is a town like no other. Las Vegas has it’s casino’s and LA has the Sunset Strip but downtown Cabo exudes a vibe, an energy that infects the soul.

I looked at my daughter and my wife and smiled. Should we go walk around? Should we go find the source of the energy, the music?

We only live once.

Might as well live to the fullest.

My wife was done, she was tired. But my daughter was wide awake. She wanted to explore the night with me. I was torn by the idea. It felt a little strange taking my fifteen -year-old daughter to explore the night-life of Cabo. But she is turning sixteen in only a couple weeks. The trip was to celebrate her birthday. I thought back to when I was sixteen. I was getting into a lot more trouble than my kid is. My parents bought me a bottle of vodka for my sixteenth birthday. In Europe kids drink when they are young. I decided that letting my daughter experience it with me would keep her from doing it behind m back.

So off we went.

We stood outside a bar called The Jungle Bar and watched the band play music from my era. The beat filled my soul and raised my spirits. My daughter smiled as she watched the world bounce around us.

Suddenly this stranger grabbed us by the hands. It was a lady my age and she dragged us onto the dancefloor. We swung to the music and my daughter beamed with the energy. 

Suddenly the generation gap closed and it didn’t matter that she was only fifteen. She was a part of me and we connected with the music.

Too soon the songs ended and we walked on after making a new friend, a new connection. 

A couple blocks away we stopped outside a night club with a cow’s statue hanging upside down over the entrance. Techno music blared into the night. I could tell Marijke liked the song that was flowing around us. 

We looked at the flashing lights and gyrating people. To my surprise the man guarding the door waved us over and ushered us inside. My head spun at the thought, there I was in a dance club in downtown Cabo San Lucas with my teenage daughter swaying to the beat of some funky jungle music. 

Covid felt like it didn’t exist, if it wasn’t for all the people wearing masks I would have thought it was any other day in the party capital of the Baja. My daughter was thrilled and mesmerized by it all. It will certainly be a memory to last a lifetime. 

It felt surreal walking back to our villa. The world was still normal in Cabo, fun still exists.

We watched the crazy world rotate around us. We weren’t there to drink or get drunk on anything but the energy of the night. 

Mission accomplished.