Trip Report Nogales to San Carlos
We spent last night at the lovely Walmart in Nogales with 11 other vehicles that appeared to be crossing the border this morning. We didn't see anyone familiar. We left at 7:15, and took the truck...
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azdryheat wrote:
Haven't been down that road in 30 years. What are the topes you mention?
The topes that he mentions are in a short residential/commercial area that the truck bypass route goes through. Many of us who live in San Carlos and go back and forth 2+ time per year have stopped using that route, since the Boulevard Morelos exit north of HMO was opened. Morelos takes you directly through town, but the lights in HMO are so well coordinated that it ends up being much faster. I take this route even driving a 10-11 long camper and towing a utility trailer. My height is 10-9. It is city driving, but it is multi-lane, all the way through. There are two places where you have to be sure and be in the correct lane as they become left-turn or right-turn only lanes very quickly. But we have learned that.
Plus, the municipal police seemed to target foreign plated vehicles, especially RVs, for a mordida shakedown for no infractions, on the bypass route. There are plenty of places to pull you over on much of the bypass. In town, there is virtually no place to do that AND they may be worried about being witnessed by superiors in town. Admitted conjecture.
The other alternative is to continue on 15, bypassing the Morelos exit and then going straight at the first signal that indicates a left turn to go to Guaymas. By proceeding straight at this intersection, you go past what many of us call "hotel row" and join up with Morelos coming in from the north (right). This route avoids the favored mordida area of the truck bypass.
