Baja Travel Buddies
Looking to cross through Mexicali via El Centro the first week of December and most likely do a two week drive to the Cabo area and then a slow return on my own time schedule. I've done the Baja befor...
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Coloradotallman - I have a gut feeling that the only area where gathering a caravan might be justified, is few kilometers through Mexicali. Local cops have particularly bad reputation. On the "Baja Road" you don't really need a caravan, though might want to consider getting a satellite phone and a few numbers for local "mechanicos", just in case. You've been there, so you know how it looks. Hours of boredom, then a stretch of white knuckles drive on the lane barely 8ft wide with no shoulders, then boredom again.
Unless you "have" to be in places between Ensenada and Sta Rosalia, I would consider ferry from Guaymas to Sta Rosa. This will put you right in the middle of the peninsula, bypassing bad sections of the road. Though it can get expensive for big rigs, the ferry is charging by the foot.
Coloradotallman - I have a gut feeling that the only area where gathering a caravan might be justified, is few kilometers through Mexicali. Local cops have particularly bad reputation. On the "Baja Road" you don't really need a caravan, though might want to consider getting a satellite phone and a few numbers for local "mechanicos", just in case. You've been there, so you know how it looks. Hours of boredom, then a stretch of white knuckles drive on the lane barely 8ft wide with no shoulders, then boredom again.
Unless you "have" to be in places between Ensenada and Sta Rosalia, I would consider ferry from Guaymas to Sta Rosa. This will put you right in the middle of the peninsula, bypassing bad sections of the road. Though it can get expensive for big rigs, the ferry is charging by the foot.
