Ace Brown
Retired Ol’ Fart
The following trip report is the continuation of our trip planning thread called ROFs Extensive Exploration of Baja. When I wrote that title I really hoped to get further off the beaten track. But just before the trip was to start I sold my off road trailer and purchased a Aliner Ranger.
Despite the “Off Road Adventure Ready” sticker
on the trailer I knew it really wasn’t ready for much more than typical Baja gravel roads. So I have changed the title of this report to Beaches of Baja because that’s all we did was go from one beach to another.
I left my home December 23 and spent Christmas Eve in the high desert north of Flagstaff
and Christmas Day on the road. Arrived in El Centro, CA on the 26 where our small group met that evening for a great Mexican dinner. We had Jeff & Wendy with their dog Kuparr in a Jeep and DIrk and Laurie in a Land Rover. I was traveling with my dog Kenda in my 4Runner pulling the Aliner. We crossed the border about 9 am on the 27th. Somehow I got in the wrong lane that was for those needing to declare goods. So we all went through the X-ray machine, well our rigs, not us. Then we waited too long to find out what’s next. Then they sent just my rig through the X-ray again. Then they put a drug sniffing dog all over my rig and even inside of my trailer. We finally got cleared and on our way after an hour and 20’ . Looking back on this I believe that were doing a practice session with us as the guiney pigs.
First stop was Pete’s Camp to camp on the beach, have a good meal then later a great fire under the gad-zillion of stars.
Next day we fueled up in San Felipe and headed south. It wasn’t long before we began dodging potholes, lots of them. Then we came into stretches where many bridges were washed out with rough detours down through the washes.
We aired down and continued on to Papa Ferndez camp. The wind was howling by then and the grassy dunes gave us some shelter. Next morning we are back on Highway 5 which had more new bridges but the road bed was about the same as seen two years ago. We made a detour to go through Coco’s Corner. We stopped for an obligatory Pacifico. Coco had clearly aged some since I saw him two years ago. Motoring down Hwy 1 we crossed into Baja Sur as the sun was sinking. We knew we couldn’t make San Ignacio before dark so we spent the night in a hotel in Guerro Negro. To be continued in part two.
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I left my home December 23 and spent Christmas Eve in the high desert north of Flagstaff
First stop was Pete’s Camp to camp on the beach, have a good meal then later a great fire under the gad-zillion of stars.
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