Thanks David!Peninsula Trip: Baja California, Mexico, August - September 1993
Thanks David!
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The MAP is garmongous. Some day when I find time, you will be able to click on the map to visit specific locations. |
Homes-away-from-home: Solmar Beach Club resort & the Villa del Palmar resort in Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico; Timeshares for rent |
Modern Mule: 1991 Chevy Suburban
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Pasadena, California departure,
fully-loaded for (1) camping & self, (2) vehicle & breakdowns, (3)
TJ & contingencies.
We were perhaps a bit reckless. Unprepared. Oblivious to the fact that Hurricane Hillary had just brush over Baja a few days earlier.
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 Welcome to Mexico! |
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| San Felipé, BCS, south of Mexicali on the Mexican side and Calexico on the American side. |
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I cannot remember the
source of these beautiful images. I should have linked to them directly. My
apologies if these are yours. Please contact
me here to have them removed or provide proper credit and / or a link
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| TJ, barely one year old, loved Mexico. He really thought he was a people. |
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| On the road again south of San Felipé, on the way towards Puertecitos on the eastern side of the Baja., the pavement suddenly stops at an 18-inch dropoff and becomes graded dirt. |
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| Puertecitos is not much more than a fishing village of Americans, the last vestige of civilization for about 100 miles of washboard, bone-jarring trail. |
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| Flat tire 10 miles out, from razor sharp rocks, it's a balance between full tire pressure and small footprint and low pressure and large footprint. |
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| To quote the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin: "magnificent desolation." |
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| Vados (dry washes) & eroded embankments. |
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| Pete's Camp. Meet Pete and his man servant. A cold cerveza, surprised that we traveled south of Puertecitos just 3 days after Hurricane Hillary ravaged the "road." |
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| First camp after San Felipé at Bahia San Luis Gonzaga. |
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| Electrical problems from the start finally stopped us at the junction of Mex 1 & the coast road. I hitchhiked north to Cataviña to purchase another battery which I thought was the source of the numerous electrical problems. |
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| Spectacular Bahía de los Angeles. They just got inbound telephone service this year. |
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| Outbound phone service was installed a few years ago. Both via microwave relay stations. |
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| One night camping. Then ferocious winds and very high heat forced us into a motel the second night. "Federalies" no older than 18 and armed with machine guns visited us as I and a local were crouched under the hood trying to figure out the electrical problem. |
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| On the road again on Mex 1 south of the LA Bay junction, we encounter road construction. The pictures speak for themselves as the crew works "in" the roadway, both lanes torn up and traffic flowing in both directions between the road grading equipment. |
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| The desert gives way to lush tropical climate approaching San Ignacío. |
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| Mission San Ignacío. |
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| check mission images vs. actual; mixed up ????? |
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| At Playa Coyote on el Bahía Concepcíon, meeting Steve & Roberta for the first time ... Tequila shooters at 7:30 in the morning. I was hot, okay? |
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| Steve & Roberta |
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| Buying a timeshare at the Solmar Beach Club resort in Cabo San Lucas, |
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| Celebrating by going deep sea fishing with our salesman, ___ and his wife ___. |
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| The first time seeing Los Arcos was magnificent. And each time thereafter has been equally breath-taking. |
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| The Dorado were practically jumping into the boat that day: the four of us and two crew and TJ, who held his bladder for nearly 8 hours even though we encouraged him to try and pee. |
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 We must have caught 20+
fish during the morning. After lunch it turned into deep sea drinking.
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 Celebrating by going out
on the catamaran party boat Pez Gato in
Cabo San Lucas --- not to be confused with the Gato
Verde in Bellingham, Washington.
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| meat on clothes line story |
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| couple story w/ mech probs & camping |
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| Final stop on the way home: Rock And Roll Taco bar & pool & volleyball pit in Rosarito Beach, Baja Norté, Mexico. |
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| Similarly, final stop at Chuy's in Carpenteria, California after a typical day at Bates Beach in Southern California. |
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