elfbrewery
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MEX 1 vs MEX 5 from Baja Sur to border
What road would you suggest? I have a good truck, but a low clearance trailer. Are the potholes still as bad on Mex 1? I hear there is improvement on
MEX 5, but are there still trouble spots?
Thanks for any input you can provide.
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Bajazly
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Mex 5 for sure. 23 miles of gradedish road and some vados beats all the small towns and traffic on Mex 1 any day.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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Norm
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WE JUST CAME IN BY # 5 road , only 18 more miles to go/you have a lot of new road bed that is good..we have a nice hauler motor home !! NO
PROBLEMO  !!! ps.=
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DaliDali
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MX 5 is rocky, dirt, bumpy and dusty.
Bob and weave the potholes or rocky, dirt, bumpy and dusty.
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woody with a view
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Dont be that guy. Go for it! If you survive so much the better. It’s Baja for fux sake!
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David K
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To me, Hwy. 5 for the win. No farm towns or mountain roads and no city of Ensenada to drive through. Just 18 or a few more unpaved, graded miles and
50 narrow, dippy miles north of Puertecitos.
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JZ
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Anyone saying other than MX 5 is out of their minds.
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JZ
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This is fake news. One small stretch that is graded to perfection. If someone can't handle that they shouldn't be in Baja.
[Edited on 2-11-2018 by JZ]
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chavycha
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We towed a 16' boat up Mex 5 late last month and I think we'll go that way on the way back. I don't recommend trying the cutoff that takes you around
Coco's (yet) but otherwise it is in better shape than it was last year at the same time.
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TMW
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Just take it easy and stop once in a while to check everything for peace of mind. Have a cold one at Cocos and rest a spell. No hurry no worry. Just
watch out for the 18 wheelers on the curves.
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hombre66
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Tom Miller always used to boast that he never had a breakdown. I asked him what the secret was to his stellar luck and , to quote him.." I drive slow,
If I think I am driving slow, I think again and slow down." He drove a 1978 Subaru station wagon. If you have a trailer, take to heart, mind and soul
his advice.
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DaliDali
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Quote: Originally posted by JZ  |
This is fake news. One small stretch that is graded to perfection. If someone can't handle that they shouldn't be in Baja.
[Edited on 2-11-2018 by JZ] |
You bet son.....I have only lived in MX for 19 years fulltime and take 5 every time.
It is STILL rocky, dirty, bumpy and dusty.
Now don't you feel like an idiot?
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elfbrewery
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Okey, dokey -- I'll pass your opinions on to my friends who leave tomorrow (I ain't leavin' till April!)
Big thanks to all.
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willardguy
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| Quote: Originally posted by DaliDali | | Quote: Originally posted by JZ |
This is fake news. One small stretch that is graded to perfection. If someone can't handle that they shouldn't be in Baja.
[Edited on 2-11-2018 by JZ] |
You bet son.....I have only lived in MX for 19 years fulltime and take 5 every time.
It is STILL rocky, dirty, bumpy and dusty.
Now don't you feel like an idiot?
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lol....ever notice its always the tourists that claim to be the experts here?
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JZ
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And yet I've probably driven it 3x more times than him in the last 2 years. 
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bajabuddha
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....And have a 3x cuter wife, AND have neater toys, AND have a faster bike, AND have a kewler drone, AND have a bigger boat, AND... AND... AND... AND...... 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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LancairDriver
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha |
....And have a 3x cuter wife, AND have neater toys, AND have a faster bike, AND have a kewler drone, AND have a bigger boat, AND... AND... AND... AND...... |
I have seen a lot of JZ’s posts, and the videos and reports are excellent and informative. He has shared his opinion freely, particularly with
drones that will save other parties such as myself interested in owning a drone a lot of wasted time and money experimenting. I don’t remember him
bragging about any of his toys, unless you consider simply exposing them in a video in their normal use qualifies as bragging. Maybe we all need to be
careful of posting any pictures of our toys for fear of appearing excessive and offending someone. As to road conditions on hwy 5, he is probably
right.
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bajabuddha
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Thanks for your opinion, Lancair! This is two different threads you've stuck up for young Jizzly, glad to see his fan club is alive and well. Keep up
the good work. I hope some day you'll raise him out of puberty. 
[Edited on 2-12-2018 by bajabuddha]
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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