So much to say about San Felipe!
But this post is just about my negative experience last week with my travel trailer I was hauling to our property in Baja. I am a person that prepares
well for travel. I thought. Checked tires. Loose stuff. Weather conditions ?predicted? good. Current tags. Lights. All a go. I thought. Day one and we
wake up to rains. Driving in the rain at four a.m. on I-5 is not fun. By the time I got to Mojave's desert, the winds are gusting at 40 MPH shaking us
into hell. So doing 55 MPH for 800 miles (and taking an extra ? travel day) was fun till I hit the Mexicalli border gates. I take to truck gate
(mistake!) and sure enough, them hands are waving me down. For the first time ever, I am asked to stop. The Agent asks for my car papers. Hey...I am
prepared! I show him?registration, insurance for the car, insurance for the trailer, and what? The registration paper for the trailer? Whoops! I
forgot the papers! As I am told to ?go back to your States?, I am swearing up a storm that is legendary! And sit we do for two days in Calexico
waiting for the documents to arrive. San Felipe in 3 ? days! So?the lesson of this trip is: no matter how prepared you are for Baja?chances are,
you?re not! The biggest looser of all of this was that BajaLou never got his Fish Taco lunch. For the second time!bajalou - 5-23-2005 at 09:06 AM
I'll be waiting fot the next time!!!!!! yankeeirishman - 5-23-2005 at 09:09 AM
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Originally posted by bajalou
I'll be waiting fot the next time!!!!!!
Lou...I sent you an email as soon as I arrived home. I am soooo sorry for screw up.
No matter how prepared......
John M - 5-23-2005 at 10:20 AM
Gotta love the paperwork challenges.
Years ago my wife and kids went down to LaSalina a few days ahead of me, I had to work. She got full insurance on the station wagon while I drove down
later and got coverage on the Baja bug. Coming home a week later we were now towing the VW. Sure enough we got into an accident in Tijuana two miles
from the border. Well, we had goofed up. Even though we had coverage on both vehicles, we had neglected to mention that we'd be towing coming back.
So, neither policy was valid and we had to leave a chunk of change with a Tijuana body shop for repair to the other guy's car.
Live and learn.TMW - 5-23-2005 at 12:25 PM
Yankee if it had been me I would have found a place to type up an offical looking bill of sale and told them I just purchased the trailer.bajalou - 5-23-2005 at 12:30 PM
TW, had a friend try that a wh8ile back and the Customs guy said "I can do better than than on my computer, now go get a real one"
