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Baja 7-07 Part 3: Into BC Sur, Bahia Asuncion, Shari's Place
This is continued from Part 2 at http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=25998
Tuesday afternoon we headed down Hwy. 1 and soon came to the El Tomatal Army Checkpoint... Just a wave through southbound, coming north we got to
watch the boys do a tapping inspection, listeng to all the truck's hollow areas... in case they were not hollow!
Next, we came to Villa Jesus Maria to fill up and get some tamales from Carmelita!
Down the road to the Eagle Monument on the state border where we parked in front of the Desert Inn (formerly Las Pintas, formerly El Presidente)
Hotel.
Here's Baja Angel at Paralelo 28...
[Edited on 8-2-2007 by David K]
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Here's The Square Circle on the Border Line...
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The Desert Inn...
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Inside was this display...
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The hotel was empty... no clients...
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South of the Eagle Monument is the officials station where 20 pesos is collected for the undercar bug spray (Roy claimed it was water) and another
official walked up to my window, asked if we were American and asked to see our tourist cards. He looked at mine and didn't want to look at
Elizabeth's... as I was pulling it out of her passport.
The road forks 2 miles south, and we go left for Vizcaino... We will check out Guerrero Negro (the right fork) on our way north.
The next section of highway is long and straight and PATROLLED by the federal highway patrol!!! We saw them going south and again heading north, days
later... Both times writing tickets or chatting with drivers!
At Vizcaino we take the paved road right (Asuncion, Tortugas)...
Here the highway crosses an arm of Scammon's Lagoon (Ojo de Liebre)...
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Up ahead new pavement into Asuncion is being laid by road building crews, but nobody can move this sand dune it seems?
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Here's the signed junction... The new pavement on the Asuncion leg is blocked, so we drive next to it for several miles...
Vizcaino (Hwy. 1) to The Asuncion/ Tortugas split is 46.6 miles.
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Fresh asphalt heading to Bahia Asuncion...
From the Tortugas road to the end of new blacktop was 8 miles.
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Paved entrance boulevard at Bahia Asuncion after 19 fast dirt miles from the end of the new pavement...
[Edited on 8-2-2007 by David K]
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Asuncion would make Homer Simpson happy... a MODELO-RAMA!!! Woo HOO!!!
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At a wye in the road is this stylized fisherman statue... To the left will lead out to Shari's and Juan's B&B. The right branch will take you
there too...
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We arrived...
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In case of pirates!
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Shari and Elizabeth... In the distance we heard sea lions on Asuncion Island...
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The beach home that Shari rents... a nice 2 bedroom place in town, by the beach.
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The view from the beach house... Bahia Asuncion
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Rockwork by Juan in the beach house... nice!
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In the next part (#4), will be photos of San Roque, a nice fish catch and more at Shari's B&B... then we head along the coast to Punta Abreojos...
Stay tuned!
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Hey,nice place, except for the Modelorama...we were all pretty sad to see it appear as the rumor was it would be a nice restaurant...boo hoo...the
thing is, this place sells beer for a bit cheaper than the ma and pa outfits in town which has seriously affected their little businesses. Plus it
looks and IS a chain store...yuck...but they do have an awesome selection of suds if ya like Pacifico beer.
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