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- Coming into to Tijuana from the autopista "toll road" from Rosarito and staying on that road you end on Calle Segunda that takes you directly to the overpass with out having to make any turns, just follow the street, no turns at all, and you end at the left side of the barrier, no need to follow the fence road only inconvenience is driving through down town TJ, I have friends that live in Playas de Tijuana and that is the way we always go back to the border.
navegator - Two ears and a tail navegator!
You come into Tijuana along the border fence.
Without much warning a sign with arrow to SAN DIEGO prompts to make a right turn. This is ONE SHORT BLOCK. Get to the left lane ASAP.
The very next street you have to make a LEFT and cars are swirling like moths around a candle. Be careful making that left. Drivers here act like they are on drugs. Fifty, sixty miles an hour right to left on that one-way cross street. No fooling watch for idiots behind you climbing onto the sidewalk to your left and damned near mowing down pedestrians shortcutting to jump the curb again to make that left. Another trick is the guy to your right, taking off the microsecond you do, then cutting 90 degrees left straight across your bow.
Not very long after you make this hazardous LEFT TURN you will have to make another left. So be ready. Stay in the left lane.
Now this street is where extra vigilance is needed. Coming up ahead is that J barrier Navegator described. It splits the wide one way street into two branches.
The SAN DIEGO with arrow points right down to the precise center wall of the start of the J barrier. Fun huh?
Jockey to place the J barrier to your right but don't get fancy and drift too many lanes to the left because the signed with arrow exit Navegator described appears suddenly on the right and you do know Tijuana drivers - five cars jammed where three should fit. You'd get squeezed out. Keep that concrete J barrier right next to your right side until you make that exit.
The exit is a sharp climbing spiral. Once you are on the exit you can't go wrong. Whether you like it or not you are headed to the border and there is no way you can screw up from here on out. - On the trip North if travelling on the cuota into Tijuana, continue with out making any turns from the road this brings you into down town Tijuana, once the street becomes a one way move to the next to the left lane and stay on it, when you see the over pass continue and make sure that the concrete barrier is on the right hand side of the RV, the sign on the overpass looks as if you have to move over to the right, do not move from the lane, this takes you on a right hand turn up onto the over pass and straight on to the border crossing.
All the right lanes are sentry and ready lanes, the lane that you are going too end in is next to the barrier stay in this lane and be careful of all the idiots that want to jump lanes, eventually you will get across.
navegator - Hint re the desviacion between la cuesta del infernillo and San Ignacio.
Then in the afternoon it goes to hell. Washboard, softball size rocks and foot deep cigar ash grade tan powder. Clouds of powder dust. It's best to do this stretch in the mornings after they *might* have run a blade over it. This bit of info comes after four trips, eight crossings, to canchanilla. (Sta Rosalia). - Thanks for posting, good report on road conditions.
