Need Travel Info To Baja

profdant139 wrote:
Watch the shoulders of the highway -- there are often abrupt dropoffs of about a foot.

(By the way, does anyone know whether this is how the roadway was designed, or is this due to erosion occurring after construction was completed?)

Both.
It was designed long time ago. One narrow lane in each direction, no shoulders, white line on the right, then few inches of pavement and then nothing. With time, the edges crumbled up to and including the white line.

Plenty of deep potholes in the middle of the lane too, the section between Catavina and Guerrero Negro is particularly bad, you can't drive around them, all you can do is to slow down to 30-40 mph. They fix it after each hurricane, every time it's getting better than before - for a while.

Don't even think of driving after dark anywhere between Ensenada and La Paz. If not potholes, then unmarked speed bumps or cows sleeping on the road, they like warm concrete.

It gets better South of La Paz. Around Cabo the roads are nice and wide, only there isn't much to do there for a camping-oriented traveler. It's more a hotel/resort area.

Asking questions on Nomads, you need to be neutral, precise to the point, and make yourself very clear. It's still better not to post in the evening.