Traveling from Ensenada to Cabo
Looking for recommended stops on a two or three day drive from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas. It looks like Guerrero Negro and Loreto would divide the trip nicely into three days that wouldn't be too lon...
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When I was in San Antonio we would make it to Washington DC in 72 hours of continuous driving, one of us drove 2 hours and the others slept and then we changed, on roads that the taxpayers maintain 4 lane highways.
Driving in Baja at night is worst than playing Russian roulette, apart from the roads being narrow 2 lanes with no shoulders and drop-offs you have the ever present pot holes, topes, cargo trucks and semis that may or may not dim their lights and will not pull to the right to much and then you have the donkeys, cows etc.
Rounding a curve doing a conservative 55mph and encountering a black bull resting on the pavement, if you hit him a 500kilo bull is the same as hitting a barrier, RV is totaled if on the other hand you manage to veer and you get of the pavement and you over steer trying to get back up on the asphalt the rig will roll down the embankment and roll over, totaled RV, no Mexican insurance only US, not covered in country you will be held until they determine whether you where drunk, and if you happen to have wounded the bull you are liable for the animal, in any case you are guilty until YOU can prove that you are innocent, that is where the Mexican insurance covers you, Allstate only covers for 75 miles South of the border and for two weeks only, after the 2 weeks if you are still in Mexico that part of the insurance is void and null, and they have access to the photographs taken as you exit at all borders, that's the flash that you see when going through the barriers, license plate and driver, time and date, this I learnt from my insurance broker.
DO NOT drive at night in Mexico not only do you encounter live stock four legged that is, you may also encounter the herd of two legged ones they really will make your stay a bad one, if you are left with you underwear you are lucky
or you might get to you expiration date a lot sooner.
Oh! well I am viviendo la vida loca in Mexico!
navegator
Driving in Baja at night is worst than playing Russian roulette, apart from the roads being narrow 2 lanes with no shoulders and drop-offs you have the ever present pot holes, topes, cargo trucks and semis that may or may not dim their lights and will not pull to the right to much and then you have the donkeys, cows etc.
Rounding a curve doing a conservative 55mph and encountering a black bull resting on the pavement, if you hit him a 500kilo bull is the same as hitting a barrier, RV is totaled if on the other hand you manage to veer and you get of the pavement and you over steer trying to get back up on the asphalt the rig will roll down the embankment and roll over, totaled RV, no Mexican insurance only US, not covered in country you will be held until they determine whether you where drunk, and if you happen to have wounded the bull you are liable for the animal, in any case you are guilty until YOU can prove that you are innocent, that is where the Mexican insurance covers you, Allstate only covers for 75 miles South of the border and for two weeks only, after the 2 weeks if you are still in Mexico that part of the insurance is void and null, and they have access to the photographs taken as you exit at all borders, that's the flash that you see when going through the barriers, license plate and driver, time and date, this I learnt from my insurance broker.
DO NOT drive at night in Mexico not only do you encounter live stock four legged that is, you may also encounter the herd of two legged ones they really will make your stay a bad one, if you are left with you underwear you are lucky
or you might get to you expiration date a lot sooner.
Oh! well I am viviendo la vida loca in Mexico!
navegator
