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AAW
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First Timer
This will be our first RV trip to the Baja. Dec - Mar. Thanks Nomads for this terrific forum. Very helpful to a couple of newbies in their sixties.
Hope I run into some of you in the Baja and I'll post a trip report in March.
Allan & Margaret
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David K
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Have fun in the Baja! Are you driving down from the Canada?
Welcome to Nomad.
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AAW
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Driving from Vancouver, visiting friends in Lake Havasu City then crossing at Tecate, Hwy 3 to Ensenada for Costco and Telcel sim card.
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ehall
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Any destination in mind ?
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micah202
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....they've got 4 months. 'Baja' is likely specific enough!  
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AAW
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So many places. We're not going to try and do everything. We'll stay in places we like and move on when we feel like it. We're sure that we'll meet
people on the way (possibly Nomads) and we'll go from there.
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BajaBlanca
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come meet this nomad in la bocana!
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BornFisher
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From an old timer to a first timer, best to you guys.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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ehall
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Location: Buckeye, Az
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Mood: It's 5 o'clock somewhere
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Quote: Originally posted by AAW  | | So many places. We're not going to try and do everything. We'll stay in places we like and move on when we feel like it. We're sure that we'll meet
people on the way (possibly Nomads) and we'll go from there. |
Perfect. I was hoping you weren't just running straight to an rv park in a tourist trap and staying there 4 months. So much to see and do.
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DENNIS
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"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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David K
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You liked that, eh Dennis?
Funny how easily we can tell if a newbie is from Canada!
From illustrator Dave Deal, in The Grinning Gargoyle Spills the Beans by Jimmy Smith:
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motoged
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And what psychic powers enable such ease?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q
Don't believe everything you think....
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shari
Select Nomad
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Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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welcome to the Nomad sandbox paisanos...fellow canucks! Hope you will stop in and meet me at the whale lagoon Ojo de Liebre just south of Guerrero
Negro where you can camp at the lagoon edge and watch whales from your dining table! The turnoff for the campground there is a few miles south of GN
and then about a half hour drive into the lagoon...ask for Shari at the gate! It is $5 a day to camp and there is a restaurant and interpretive centre
too...have a wonderful trip down!
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AAW
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Definitely will visit. Road OK for motorhome? Can't figure out how everybody knows we're Canadians. Must work on our Texas drawl .
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bajaguy
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Location: Carson City, NV/Ensenada - Baja Country Club
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It's the "the" you put in front of Baja (the Baja)
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motoged
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Don't let these Yanks get you worried about the secret handshake....plenty of them have also been scolded/corrected for such a travesty of GC
(geographical correctness). It's usually followed by claiming all Canadians are cheap tippers and that they talk like "hosers"
(unfortunately....their only sense of Canadian culture aside from Mounty pictures).
You will find a lot of fellow Canucks in Baja ...some with RV's, some riding dirtbikes in the desert, some owning homes, and some just down hotelling
for a few weeks to get away from shoveling the drive....
Please don't practice your drawl or put Trump/NRA stickers all over your vehicle....it will only make you sound and look like a hillbilly....and get
"That Look" from other Canadians you meet... 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Ricardo
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And by the way "the Baja" is correct as the Baja is a peninsula.
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Ricardo
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Yale University states:
Use THE before
Name of all bodies of water except Lakes, bays and falls.
Name of all Deserts, Forests, Peninsulas and Archipelagos
Name on all points on the globe. (North West etc)
ETC ETC (more than I can type)
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David K
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My CB handle in the 70s was "The Baja"!
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AAW
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A couple of months go by and suddenly we're in Los Barriles. Outside of Hwy 1 , everything has been terrific. On my third bottle of tequila. Will post
a trip report at the end but just some advice for newcomers and Telcel. Here are simple instructions. Take your unlocked phone to a Telcel store.
Bigger cities help because someone usually speaks English. Purchase sim card. 150 pesos. They install it. They write your phone number on the package
of your new sim card and put your old sim in it. Use phone. When phone doesn't work, go to any store, grocery Oxxo farmacia etc. and give phone number
and pesos to cashier. Repeat as many times as necessary.
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