This issue’s cover features a canyon pool in the Sierra de la Laguna. We chose it because its many contrasts illustrate what makes Baja California Sur so distinctive. Life here gathers in pockets, and one of the most dramatic is the pools and waterfalls that form in the mountain range that cuts the peninsula’s cape region from the East Cape to the southern Pacific.

Baja is a land of vast, beautiful, unforgiving spaces: the sky, the desert, and the ocean lose themselves into one another, three infinities. And then suddenly, an improbable beach cove that people travel around the world to enjoy, a palm orchard around an oasis, a mission church from the 17th century, or a reef teeming with marine life.

Much of what’s in this issue, if you read between the lines, relates to that. We feature entrepreneurs who chose to develop their projects slowly, in places that, on paper, could accommodate much more. People preoccupied with water, with density, with what a reef or mountain range can bear. Questions like how we should enter the water with an animal like the orca, if at all, and how our encounters shape not only our own economy but the orcas’ own social culture.

A good life is a life built around thoughtful limits. Here in Baja, the land itself demands that we stay keenly mindful of how far it’s wise to develop and activate it economically, and how. Having this conversation in a spirit of reverence and dialogue is the very thing that keeps the bounty from undoing itself.

Welcome to the Summer 2026 edition,

Alejandro Ehrenberg