Icheck into Paradero, the luxury resort located in Todos Santos on the southern tip of Baja California, and it’s absolutely picturesque; the kind of place where everywhere one looks has you going, “Damn!”

Upon pulling up, I’m offered a cold towel, a glass of juice made from local produce, along with a smoking bushel of sage, all presented on a platter. I make my way to my room and gaze out onto a vista of rich brown sand dotted by a bountiful garden and rolling mountains in the distance. The property itself is an architectural feast for the eyes all on its own, with stark concrete buildings that essentially resemble a stylish spaceship that somehow went off course and landed here in the Baja desert.

Yet my first thought when I’m presented with the platter, the vista, and my room isn’t t

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