Travel in Baja Peninsula or Chihuahua State
I've always wanted to do a drive through Copper Canyon in Chihuahua State of Mexico, but my wife is very nervous. Does anyone have any (preferably reassuring) story about travel there? Or, alternatel...
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Traveling Baja OR Chihuahua don't belong in the same sentence, IMO.
The only problem with Baja is too many gringos (= expensive everything).
Another problem - only one and not very easy highway Mex 1 that goes down the spine of the peninsula. Too far to deliver everything, fresh produce costs double and triple. Difficult terrain and regular floods make road maintenance difficult, they are fixing it now and then, but some sections are really bad. And it is barely 9 feet wide lane in some places, with 2 lanes total, i.e. 18 feet from ravine on the left to rock wall on the right, no shoulders in many places. It gets better closer to Cabo, but those areas are more friendly for hotel stay than RV camping.
Can't say about La Paz ferry, but ferry from Sta Rosalia to Guaymas is ridiculously, prohibitively, unbelievably expensive with RV. Triple prices of fresh produce (yes, triple) will fade in comparison.
Absolutely don't travel in the night. No, no bandidos - cattle on the road. Cows like sitting on warm concrete after dark. And potholes that you won't see.
Can't say about La Paz ferry, but ferry from Sta Rosalia to Guaymas is unbelievably expensive with RV.
The only problem with Baja is too many gringos (= expensive everything).
Another problem - only one and not very easy highway Mex 1 that goes down the spine of the peninsula. Too far to deliver everything, fresh produce costs double and triple. Difficult terrain and regular floods make road maintenance difficult, they are fixing it now and then, but some sections are really bad. And it is barely 9 feet wide lane in some places, with 2 lanes total, i.e. 18 feet from ravine on the left to rock wall on the right, no shoulders in many places. It gets better closer to Cabo, but those areas are more friendly for hotel stay than RV camping.
Can't say about La Paz ferry, but ferry from Sta Rosalia to Guaymas is ridiculously, prohibitively, unbelievably expensive with RV. Triple prices of fresh produce (yes, triple) will fade in comparison.
Absolutely don't travel in the night. No, no bandidos - cattle on the road. Cows like sitting on warm concrete after dark. And potholes that you won't see.
Can't say about La Paz ferry, but ferry from Sta Rosalia to Guaymas is unbelievably expensive with RV.
