Baja 2022, Part 3, The Adventure Continues

Picking up where we left off in Part 2, we reluctantly left Bahia Conception and headed south once again, towards Loreto. We were due for a grocery re-supply so that was the first stop. After picking up a few things we came out to see our truck in the final stages of being washed. This was a bit unexpected. The guy washing the truck named his price at $200. Eventually we ended up paying. That morning I was thinking we needed a wash, covered in mud from all the road puddles of the first few days. So, we had a clean truck, things could be worse. The next order of business was to finally get our hands on a fish taco. We were a week in to our trip and still hadn’t had one and we were feeling that was a bit pathetic. In our defense, we tried in a few spots, but most of the time we were camped remotely and in towns at sub optimal times. Anyhow, after a couple tries at some places that came highly recommended but were closed we wandered past El Zopilote Brewing and stopped in to find that taco. We could finally check that milestone off the list (though there were a lot more tacos in our future for this trip).

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Baja 2022, Part 2, Southbound

After crossing the border on New Year’s day we had the entire Baja peninsula in front of us. We were headed southbound for at least the next week. Our first night was a relatively quiet one, after a couple hours of rough road we found ourselves on the beach near La Calavera. We had thought there would be more there, but an old sign was all that was there to note that we had arrived. We found a spot overlooking the beach and watched the sunset.

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Baja 2022, Part 1, The Border Crossing

We ventured south of the border to Baja Mexico for our first time, in January 2022. As with any trip, a big portion of it is the planning and anticipation, but for this trip, being it involved leaving the country and venturing to a place we hadn’t been, then throw in the fact that there’s another language involved, well, there was a bit of work too do to prep for this trip. This post will cover a bit of trip prep for Baja as well as our experience crossing the border, then we’ll get to the actual trip in following posts. Hopefully this post will be useful to those who are considering or planning a trip in the future.

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