XXXpedition
Explorer
awesome trip guys,
brings back a loooooot of memories! thanks for the reports and pics...
sven
brings back a loooooot of memories! thanks for the reports and pics...
sven
unURBAN Adventures - Alaska to Argentina to AFRICA!
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San Francisco
San Francisco was marked in our calendar as “relaxing time”, and we had serious plans about having a good time and not rushing through. And so we had! Before arriving San Francisco, we had made plans with some friends to stay at their place just outside the city, in a place called Livermore. From here it is about 45 minutes into the city center by BARTH, the local city train. We also booked a night at a hotel downtown SF, so we shouldn’t have to worry about train schedules and last departures when checking out the city life.
When visiting friends that have lived here for years, they do have some cards up their sleeves. We had been discussing driving up to Napa Valley to expose ourselves to some wine culture, but what we didn’t know was that there were about 50 vineyards in Livermore! So, first activity on the list was wine tasting! Stopped by three excellent vineyards, and that was perhaps a little too much for the quality of the tasting, but we had a lot of fun!! At the last place I Think we taster about 10 wines. Hm…
Zinfandel discussions at Ruby Hill
Don Franklin explains the production process at McGrail Vinyard.
Final conclusions at Boa Ventura...
Another convenient consequence about staying with friends was to have a physical mail address. Incredible how many nice-to-have things available online are never in stock when you try to look for them in an old fashion store. Not an easy thing to have thing sent to you when you never are in the same place for more than a couple of days (and don’t really know where you are going to be next week..). There showed up ,among other stuff, a kit with new rear brake pads for the Patrol – came all the way from Norway as Patrol parts are relatively scarce here in the US.
Downtown San Francisco we took the “tourist route”; got off the BARTH at Embarcadero, walked along the piers, and found the stairs up to Coit Tower. From there we walked down the hill on the other side of the tower, and came down to North Beach.
Coit Tower from Embarcadero
View from Coit Tower towards North Beach and the city center.
North Beach is not a beach, but the Italian part of San Francisco. And as it was time for lunch, we found a table and had great, Italian pizza at Divine Café.
On our way back to the hotel (NB Park Hotel in the city center has rooms for only 60$ a night!) we walked through SF’s Chinatown. We are a little fascinated that all bigger American cities has a so uniform looking “Chinese” area.
In the afternoon we got on the tram for some sightseeing on the other side of the city, Fisherman’s Wharf. Looked around for a place serving fresh fish, but after finding this sign down by the piers, we ended up eating chicken at a Thai restaurant…
The next day we met up with Luis from www.lostworldexpedition.com which happened to be back home in California for a few weeks. He and his girlfriend have been on the road for almost a year and a half in a Toyota Landcruiser, and they are kind of in Panama now (if they hadn’t been in California…). It will be interesting to see if we will catch up with them. We also met Christian and Dave that also are overland travelers. Christian has been traveling in Africa and Australia, and he is also one of the guys behind www.expeditionportal.com. Dave and his wife are packing their Nissan Xterra as we speak, and will be driving south in a couple of days. Their destination is the same as ours – Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. We had a really nice day talking about preparations, travels, and Central America.
The last couple of days we stayed in the area, we spent in Livermore, and we really got to relax and recharge our batteries after a lot of driving the last two month.
A big thanks to Elin, Larry, Diane, Nina, Jan, Jackie, and Peter for a great stay in Livermore, and to Luis, Christian, Dave, Persephone and Matt for a fun and interesting day in San Francisco
(…and to Charles for an excellent white wine! It went really well with the beautiful ocean view at Kirk Creek Campground along Hw1)
And from San Francisco we take Highway 1 south along the Pacific coast in the next blog post…
E&M
San Francisco was marked in our calendar as “relaxing time”, and we had serious plans about having a good time and not rushing through. And so we had! Before arriving San Francisco, we had made plans with some friends to stay at their place just outside the city, in a place called Livermore. From here it is about 45 minutes into the city center by BARTH, the local city train. We also booked a night at a hotel downtown SF, so we shouldn’t have to worry about train schedules and last departures when checking out the city life.
When visiting friends that have lived here for years, they do have some cards up their sleeves. We had been discussing driving up to Napa Valley to expose ourselves to some wine culture, but what we didn’t know was that there were about 50 vineyards in Livermore! So, first activity on the list was wine tasting! Stopped by three excellent vineyards, and that was perhaps a little too much for the quality of the tasting, but we had a lot of fun!! At the last place I Think we taster about 10 wines. Hm…
Zinfandel discussions at Ruby Hill
Don Franklin explains the production process at McGrail Vinyard.
Final conclusions at Boa Ventura...
Another convenient consequence about staying with friends was to have a physical mail address. Incredible how many nice-to-have things available online are never in stock when you try to look for them in an old fashion store. Not an easy thing to have thing sent to you when you never are in the same place for more than a couple of days (and don’t really know where you are going to be next week..). There showed up ,among other stuff, a kit with new rear brake pads for the Patrol – came all the way from Norway as Patrol parts are relatively scarce here in the US.
Downtown San Francisco we took the “tourist route”; got off the BARTH at Embarcadero, walked along the piers, and found the stairs up to Coit Tower. From there we walked down the hill on the other side of the tower, and came down to North Beach.
Coit Tower from Embarcadero
View from Coit Tower towards North Beach and the city center.
North Beach is not a beach, but the Italian part of San Francisco. And as it was time for lunch, we found a table and had great, Italian pizza at Divine Café.
On our way back to the hotel (NB Park Hotel in the city center has rooms for only 60$ a night!) we walked through SF’s Chinatown. We are a little fascinated that all bigger American cities has a so uniform looking “Chinese” area.
In the afternoon we got on the tram for some sightseeing on the other side of the city, Fisherman’s Wharf. Looked around for a place serving fresh fish, but after finding this sign down by the piers, we ended up eating chicken at a Thai restaurant…
The next day we met up with Luis from www.lostworldexpedition.com which happened to be back home in California for a few weeks. He and his girlfriend have been on the road for almost a year and a half in a Toyota Landcruiser, and they are kind of in Panama now (if they hadn’t been in California…). It will be interesting to see if we will catch up with them. We also met Christian and Dave that also are overland travelers. Christian has been traveling in Africa and Australia, and he is also one of the guys behind www.expeditionportal.com. Dave and his wife are packing their Nissan Xterra as we speak, and will be driving south in a couple of days. Their destination is the same as ours – Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. We had a really nice day talking about preparations, travels, and Central America.
The last couple of days we stayed in the area, we spent in Livermore, and we really got to relax and recharge our batteries after a lot of driving the last two month.
A big thanks to Elin, Larry, Diane, Nina, Jan, Jackie, and Peter for a great stay in Livermore, and to Luis, Christian, Dave, Persephone and Matt for a fun and interesting day in San Francisco
(…and to Charles for an excellent white wine! It went really well with the beautiful ocean view at Kirk Creek Campground along Hw1)
And from San Francisco we take Highway 1 south along the Pacific coast in the next blog post…
E&M
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SChandler
Adventurer
This is a great trip and hits a number of places on my list to visit when I can.
If you're still in San Francisco, stop by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. It was built by the widow of William Winchester (of Winchester rifle fame) and is definitely worth a day to tour the mansion and the grounds.
If you're still in San Francisco, stop by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. It was built by the widow of William Winchester (of Winchester rifle fame) and is definitely worth a day to tour the mansion and the grounds.
California Highway 1
Our chosen travel route has since Vancouver taken us inland along the Rockies and down to the Canyonlands. As we also wanted to see some of the US coast line, we traveled northwest from Arizona to San Francisco. After photos and movies we have seen over the years, we decided to drive south along the Pacific on Highway 1. It was an amazing drive and we had nice weather and great views the whole time. A couple we meet later told us they had driven the same road and not seen a thing because of fog.
We started our drive along the coast in Monterey and drove by all the expensive houses along the “17 Mile Drive” to Carmel –by-the-sea. The most beautiful part of the coast was from Big Sur and southwards where it hardly lives any people. Except for the winding road it is wild. Since the Californian coast is famous for its beauty, and with cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles not too far away, it attracts many tourists and the prices are steep. Normally we pay $ 15-20 for a night in a State Campground, but along the coast they cost $ 35…
One night we camped at Kirk Creek which has the most amazing views over the ocean. We were sitting in our chairs enjoying the view, the stars above us, and eating chili tortilla chips. After a quick trip to the restrooms we found that our bag of chips was gone!! There were traces left of chips going towards the bushes, and we figured that the thief must be a raccoon. We had forgotten about the warnings not to leave any food out. Felt a bit sorry for the raccoon that probably ate the rest of the chili chips, hope it did not get too bad stomach pains.
At Piedras Blancas we stopped to look at the young elephant seals that were sunbathing on the beach. Not to different from humans…
From there Highway 1 took us to places like Santa Barbra and Santa Monica where we saw the “famous” lifeguards. Espen wanted to look for movie stars so figured Beverly Hills and Hollywood was a good place to start.
Unfortunately, the only stars we saw were the ones in the pavement on Hollywood boulevard. After driving around a hill and several other detours, we could finally see the Hollywood sign from Griffith Observatory.
From the Observatory there were also great views over the city, which is just huge.
Sunset was closing in and we had to find a campsite for the night. Best location for that in the LA area is in Anaheim next to Disneyland. This meant that we had to cross the city in rush hour….. Great.
That was the end of our drive along Highway 1…
Our chosen travel route has since Vancouver taken us inland along the Rockies and down to the Canyonlands. As we also wanted to see some of the US coast line, we traveled northwest from Arizona to San Francisco. After photos and movies we have seen over the years, we decided to drive south along the Pacific on Highway 1. It was an amazing drive and we had nice weather and great views the whole time. A couple we meet later told us they had driven the same road and not seen a thing because of fog.
We started our drive along the coast in Monterey and drove by all the expensive houses along the “17 Mile Drive” to Carmel –by-the-sea. The most beautiful part of the coast was from Big Sur and southwards where it hardly lives any people. Except for the winding road it is wild. Since the Californian coast is famous for its beauty, and with cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles not too far away, it attracts many tourists and the prices are steep. Normally we pay $ 15-20 for a night in a State Campground, but along the coast they cost $ 35…
One night we camped at Kirk Creek which has the most amazing views over the ocean. We were sitting in our chairs enjoying the view, the stars above us, and eating chili tortilla chips. After a quick trip to the restrooms we found that our bag of chips was gone!! There were traces left of chips going towards the bushes, and we figured that the thief must be a raccoon. We had forgotten about the warnings not to leave any food out. Felt a bit sorry for the raccoon that probably ate the rest of the chili chips, hope it did not get too bad stomach pains.
At Piedras Blancas we stopped to look at the young elephant seals that were sunbathing on the beach. Not to different from humans…
From there Highway 1 took us to places like Santa Barbra and Santa Monica where we saw the “famous” lifeguards. Espen wanted to look for movie stars so figured Beverly Hills and Hollywood was a good place to start.
Unfortunately, the only stars we saw were the ones in the pavement on Hollywood boulevard. After driving around a hill and several other detours, we could finally see the Hollywood sign from Griffith Observatory.
From the Observatory there were also great views over the city, which is just huge.
Sunset was closing in and we had to find a campsite for the night. Best location for that in the LA area is in Anaheim next to Disneyland. This meant that we had to cross the city in rush hour….. Great.
That was the end of our drive along Highway 1…
D
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Ahh..the "lone Cypress".... I love riding around in that part of California...its awesome on two wheels with a motor!
concretejungle
Adventurer
Amazing! Thank you for updating this thread. I enjoy following your adventures and looking at the amazing photographs.
Do you mind me asking what style/brand of wheels you have on your patrol?
Do you mind me asking what style/brand of wheels you have on your patrol?
suntinez
Explorer
like ships in the night
Unreal - that's my Tiger (pop up van) on the left ... got a great spot this time #15 right over the ocean.
I got your picture too - you're unique! Great rig.
You rolled up in the afternoon, wasn't sure if you'd get a spot but saw you the next AM. But things were distinctly quiet at your camp, and then we were both off. Next time for sure, sorry I didn't introduce myself. If you find yourself in the mountains around Big Bear, be sure and let me know
Unreal - that's my Tiger (pop up van) on the left ... got a great spot this time #15 right over the ocean.
I got your picture too - you're unique! Great rig.
You rolled up in the afternoon, wasn't sure if you'd get a spot but saw you the next AM. But things were distinctly quiet at your camp, and then we were both off. Next time for sure, sorry I didn't introduce myself. If you find yourself in the mountains around Big Bear, be sure and let me know
Thanks for comment!!
We started with 35x12,5-15 Goodyear Wrangler MT/R (not the new kevlar..). changed in Moab about a month ago to BF Godrich MT KM2 37,12,5-17. And in my opinion the new KM2s drive like an All Terrain tire. Best mud tire I've had! But of course, if you are looking for the best possible fuel economy, or the most comfortable ride on asphalt or hard packed gravel, I'm sure there are better alternatives... ;-)
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Unreal - that's my Tiger (pop up van) on the left ... got a great spot this time #15 right over the ocean.
I got your picture too - you're unique! Great rig.You rolled up in the afternoon, wasn't sure if you'd get a spot but saw you the next AM. But things were distinctly quiet at your camp, and then we were both off. Next time for sure, sorry I didn't introduce myself. If you find yourself in the mountains around Big Bear, be sure and let me know
We noticed your Tiger. It's kind of our style type camper!
And I have to admit that we were away from our camp for most of the afternoon, as we down by the beach sharing a bottle of wine
Next time...
E&M
San Diego - Last preparations before Mexico!
Hey everybody!
We have been hanging out in LA and San Diego for a few days now, trying to prepare and get organized before crossing the border to Mexico and head south. Traveling in North America is easy when it comes to things like drinking water and electricity, but we kind of expect that to change as we travel south. We also start to see some wear and tear on some of the equipment we have been using so far, and in particular on our tent. Fortunately, ARB wanted to help us out and replaced the worn parts. Marc at ARB even helped us out with a shipping contact in San Diego, so when the parts arrived we met up with Rodel (driving a really nice Nissan Pathfinder!) that gave us all the stuff we needed. Big thanks to you, guys!
Another stop was at Currie for an adjustable link to our rear sway bar, as the in-cab-disconnector stopped working a month or two ago. I guess I’ll open up the control box and see if I can make it work again a little later (on a nice beach in Baja with a cerveza…)
The parts for the roof top tent were a new transport cover, as the one we’ve been using for the last 7 months was wearing out at some points, a new hinge/lock for the fridge, and an aluminum bar with some plastic locks. I would say that I don’t think any of these repairs would have been necessary for normal weekend or a couple of weeks holiday use, but putting the tent up and packing it down almost every day for 7 months is hard on some parts of the equipment.
From San Francisco, we had got hold of some extra mounting brackets for the roof rack. This is also one of the things that have been on our minds for some time now, as we want to make sure that the weight from the roof rack is distributed as evenly as possible on the vehicle body.
Well, enough about repairs and maintenance! We also bought some new goodies that we hope will make our days of camping even better. With our setup (fully charged), we can camp for 3 or maybe 4 days if we only run the fridge and water pump. If we’re also using our laptop, it will be shorter. So in order to extend our stay “off line” for another day or three, we decided to get a solar panel. The Piranha isolator we have to separate our battery circuits, also has a small built in solar controller. This can take up to 50 watt, so even if we would like some more juice, we decided to go for a 50 watt Kyocera panel. It is not mounted on the car, so we can move it around with the sun when we camp. This way we probably get about the same effect as from a 80-90 watt panel mounted flat on the roof. So far the panel works great!
The next issue we wanted to solve before heading south was drinking water. In North America we have been filling up our tank from taps at campgrounds, and the water has always been fine. Going south we kind of expect this to change… After debating for a while if we should go for chlorine and a cheap filter for the taste, buying filtered water, or get a filter that would actually remove all the bad stuff, we decided to get a Seagull X1 that supposedly will remove all bacteria, all cysts, and 99,99 % of viruses. Will be interesting to see how this works….
The last piece we wanted to change was our propane bottles. We have been using the 1 pound cans from Wallmarts, and this lasts for about 4-5-6 days depending on what we are cooking. Now we mounted an 11 pound gas can in the back of the truck that hopefully will give us about a month or so with cooking. And the availability of propane should be fine all the way to Argentina.
In order to get all this stuff sorted out, mounted, and tested before setting off, we camped for a couple of days in Anaheim, LA, and in San Diego. In Anaheim we met Franc and Isabel from Switzerland in a really nice 1976 VW bus/combi, now on their way to South America.
The last preparations were made in a KOA campground just south of San Diego, and here we met Tiffany and Jamie also on their way south along Baja in their Chevrolet van. We crossed the border and drove the northern part of Baja together. More about that in the next post!
Hey everybody!
We have been hanging out in LA and San Diego for a few days now, trying to prepare and get organized before crossing the border to Mexico and head south. Traveling in North America is easy when it comes to things like drinking water and electricity, but we kind of expect that to change as we travel south. We also start to see some wear and tear on some of the equipment we have been using so far, and in particular on our tent. Fortunately, ARB wanted to help us out and replaced the worn parts. Marc at ARB even helped us out with a shipping contact in San Diego, so when the parts arrived we met up with Rodel (driving a really nice Nissan Pathfinder!) that gave us all the stuff we needed. Big thanks to you, guys!
Another stop was at Currie for an adjustable link to our rear sway bar, as the in-cab-disconnector stopped working a month or two ago. I guess I’ll open up the control box and see if I can make it work again a little later (on a nice beach in Baja with a cerveza…)
The parts for the roof top tent were a new transport cover, as the one we’ve been using for the last 7 months was wearing out at some points, a new hinge/lock for the fridge, and an aluminum bar with some plastic locks. I would say that I don’t think any of these repairs would have been necessary for normal weekend or a couple of weeks holiday use, but putting the tent up and packing it down almost every day for 7 months is hard on some parts of the equipment.
From San Francisco, we had got hold of some extra mounting brackets for the roof rack. This is also one of the things that have been on our minds for some time now, as we want to make sure that the weight from the roof rack is distributed as evenly as possible on the vehicle body.
Well, enough about repairs and maintenance! We also bought some new goodies that we hope will make our days of camping even better. With our setup (fully charged), we can camp for 3 or maybe 4 days if we only run the fridge and water pump. If we’re also using our laptop, it will be shorter. So in order to extend our stay “off line” for another day or three, we decided to get a solar panel. The Piranha isolator we have to separate our battery circuits, also has a small built in solar controller. This can take up to 50 watt, so even if we would like some more juice, we decided to go for a 50 watt Kyocera panel. It is not mounted on the car, so we can move it around with the sun when we camp. This way we probably get about the same effect as from a 80-90 watt panel mounted flat on the roof. So far the panel works great!
The next issue we wanted to solve before heading south was drinking water. In North America we have been filling up our tank from taps at campgrounds, and the water has always been fine. Going south we kind of expect this to change… After debating for a while if we should go for chlorine and a cheap filter for the taste, buying filtered water, or get a filter that would actually remove all the bad stuff, we decided to get a Seagull X1 that supposedly will remove all bacteria, all cysts, and 99,99 % of viruses. Will be interesting to see how this works….
The last piece we wanted to change was our propane bottles. We have been using the 1 pound cans from Wallmarts, and this lasts for about 4-5-6 days depending on what we are cooking. Now we mounted an 11 pound gas can in the back of the truck that hopefully will give us about a month or so with cooking. And the availability of propane should be fine all the way to Argentina.
In order to get all this stuff sorted out, mounted, and tested before setting off, we camped for a couple of days in Anaheim, LA, and in San Diego. In Anaheim we met Franc and Isabel from Switzerland in a really nice 1976 VW bus/combi, now on their way to South America.
The last preparations were made in a KOA campground just south of San Diego, and here we met Tiffany and Jamie also on their way south along Baja in their Chevrolet van. We crossed the border and drove the northern part of Baja together. More about that in the next post!
Baja - Mexico!!
In the KOA campground in San Diego we got to know Tiffany and Jamie who were heading the same way as us and decided to cross the border and drive a bit south together. Monday morning we (even Espen) got up at 6 o’clock in the morning, packed up and headed for the Tecate border crossing. Tijuana is the largest and busiest border crossing in the whole world and we wanted to avoid it. We had been recommended to cross at Tecate because it is the smallest crossing in the area, but maybe it almost got a bit too small. When our car was shipped to USA it was temporarily imported and we had to get these papers stamped to prove that we were taking the car out of USA. After a few phone calls they were able to find someone that could do this for us. He met us on the street and stamped the papers.
Next move to cross the border was to get the tourist card (FMT) for Mexico. The easiest was to park our cars on the US side of the border, because of more parking spaces, and walk over to the Migracion office. Just took a few minutes to fill out the forms and hand them over to the official at work who did not seem too happy and interested about his job. As Norwegians citizens we will normally get 90 days tourist visas, but here we got 180 days. Guess he normally gives tourist cards to Americans and did not even look at our passports. With our Mexican tourist cards we had to walk back again through American immigration to get to our car. Back in the car it was just to drive on green, nothing to declare, and we got a green light that indicated that they did not want to search our car. Phew... After driving 8 meters across the border we were in Tecate city. Now we wanted to get the Temporary Import Papers (TIP) for our car, but we could not see the office. It turned out that the only places we could get the TIP was in Tijuana, Mexicali or La Paz. Then we will wait to get our TIP until we get to La Paz in Baja California South.
Crossing the border is like walking into another world, it is so different form the organized North America. It is strange that Mexico, just across the border, is so different from USA, but it reminded me so much of Punta Arenas on the southern tip of Chile which is so much further away. From the border we drove to Ensenada where we found an ATM and did some shopping before we continued south. First day we made it to Santo Tomas where it was only our two cars in the campground. Second day in Mexico we continued to drive south on Mex 1. We drove past villages, vineyards, fields, huge greenhouses, the pacific ocean, that we could not really see because of fog, and we were stopped at our third army check point. All the three army check points we have been stopped at so far has been really friendly and they just ask us where we are going, smile and say goodbye. Second night we camped at Rancho Santa Ynez in Catavina, that is surrounded by granite boulders, dessert plants, boojum trees and enormous cacti. A really interesting landscape.
Since we finally have made it “south” it was about time to find the beach, and our first opportunity was Bahia Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez. Now we have a great campsite 30 meters from the sea!
And by coincidence (??) the Baja 1000 race goes through Bahia Los Angeles today, and we will head into town to watch as the motorbikes and other crazy vehicles will drive through town this afternoon…
E&M
In the KOA campground in San Diego we got to know Tiffany and Jamie who were heading the same way as us and decided to cross the border and drive a bit south together. Monday morning we (even Espen) got up at 6 o’clock in the morning, packed up and headed for the Tecate border crossing. Tijuana is the largest and busiest border crossing in the whole world and we wanted to avoid it. We had been recommended to cross at Tecate because it is the smallest crossing in the area, but maybe it almost got a bit too small. When our car was shipped to USA it was temporarily imported and we had to get these papers stamped to prove that we were taking the car out of USA. After a few phone calls they were able to find someone that could do this for us. He met us on the street and stamped the papers.
Next move to cross the border was to get the tourist card (FMT) for Mexico. The easiest was to park our cars on the US side of the border, because of more parking spaces, and walk over to the Migracion office. Just took a few minutes to fill out the forms and hand them over to the official at work who did not seem too happy and interested about his job. As Norwegians citizens we will normally get 90 days tourist visas, but here we got 180 days. Guess he normally gives tourist cards to Americans and did not even look at our passports. With our Mexican tourist cards we had to walk back again through American immigration to get to our car. Back in the car it was just to drive on green, nothing to declare, and we got a green light that indicated that they did not want to search our car. Phew... After driving 8 meters across the border we were in Tecate city. Now we wanted to get the Temporary Import Papers (TIP) for our car, but we could not see the office. It turned out that the only places we could get the TIP was in Tijuana, Mexicali or La Paz. Then we will wait to get our TIP until we get to La Paz in Baja California South.
Crossing the border is like walking into another world, it is so different form the organized North America. It is strange that Mexico, just across the border, is so different from USA, but it reminded me so much of Punta Arenas on the southern tip of Chile which is so much further away. From the border we drove to Ensenada where we found an ATM and did some shopping before we continued south. First day we made it to Santo Tomas where it was only our two cars in the campground. Second day in Mexico we continued to drive south on Mex 1. We drove past villages, vineyards, fields, huge greenhouses, the pacific ocean, that we could not really see because of fog, and we were stopped at our third army check point. All the three army check points we have been stopped at so far has been really friendly and they just ask us where we are going, smile and say goodbye. Second night we camped at Rancho Santa Ynez in Catavina, that is surrounded by granite boulders, dessert plants, boojum trees and enormous cacti. A really interesting landscape.
Since we finally have made it “south” it was about time to find the beach, and our first opportunity was Bahia Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez. Now we have a great campsite 30 meters from the sea!
And by coincidence (??) the Baja 1000 race goes through Bahia Los Angeles today, and we will head into town to watch as the motorbikes and other crazy vehicles will drive through town this afternoon…
E&M
targa88
Explorer
Since we finally have made it “south” it was about time to find the beach, and our first opportunity was Bahia Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez. Now we have a great campsite 30 meters from the sea!
And by coincidence (??) the Baja 1000 race goes through Bahia Los Angeles today, and we will head into town to watch as the motorbikes and other crazy vehicles will drive through town this afternoon…
E&M
The perfect campsite!