In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Family's Baja Adventure

In the early 1970s, Mike Humfreville and his wife Mary Ann left their surburban home and their jobs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and headed to Baja California’s Bahia de los Angeles. Living in a tiny hut they constructed on a remote beach, they bonded with each and the special place they’d found. In 1985 they did it again, taking their boys, aged 6 and 8, and living in another beachside hut on the shore of the bay. The family’s experiences are related in simple but evocative prose by author Mike Humfreville, who had spent years traveling in Baja California, and reads like a modern-day castaway story—full of adventure and struggle, but with the warmth and humor of a loving family working together on a shared dream.