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AAA Baja map no longer available

Martyman - 3-12-2013 at 02:57 PM

I hope that the Ca AAA lady was wrong but they said that all they make is the Mexico map. Anyone else hear this? Good thing I've got a couple, including the one in my cubicle.

mulegemichael - 3-12-2013 at 02:59 PM

we got a baja map from them around 10 yrs ago or so...maybe no mas????

Alan - 3-12-2013 at 03:38 PM

Please tell me that isn't so! Its not April Fools Day which would just be plain mean!!

DENNIS - 3-12-2013 at 04:07 PM

Maybe you can get one online. Everything else in the world can be found online.

David K - 3-12-2013 at 04:31 PM

2010 was the last edition I have seen, and it is a reprint of the 2003 and 2007 research combined... maybe some small changes? Lets face it, 'nobody' is going to Mexico like the mobs of the past... too many think it is unsafe. It would good to get a letter from the Auto Club of So Cal stating why they stopped making maps of Baja.

2010 has a photo of a sandy path to lined with kayaks.

2007 has the San Felipe lighthouse.

2004 has palapas.

2003 has kayaks on a beach (taken the same place as the 2010 cover, just closer to the water).

DENNIS - 3-12-2013 at 05:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by David K
'nobody' is going to Mexico like the mobs of the past... too many think it is unsafe.


Economy, I believe, is the more direct reason. Americans have short memories and the worst of the gruesome violence seems to be over. At least, we arn't hearing as much about it.
Here's a reminder:

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_68fe5340-8aaf-1...

Barry A. - 3-12-2013 at 05:27 PM

About 6 months ago, I talked to Triple A and the girl at the front desk said that AAA was getting out of the map business, and turning it all over to a private contractor, or discontinuing it all together.

The quality of the maps had deteoriated quite a bit anyway, and for the last few years I have been very disappointed in them. A shame because they used to be the gold standard of general western maps.

I have cancelled my $55 subscription to their map & towing service several months ago because of this.

Barry

Whale-ista - 3-12-2013 at 05:54 PM

FYI, I just picked up several, at the office in North Clairemont (San Diego).

2003-2010 version.

baja Steve - 3-12-2013 at 07:43 PM

I picked up 4 maps in Bend Oregon last week.

vandenberg - 3-12-2013 at 07:52 PM

Last summer the Sacramento AAA office told me" no more Baja maps".

woody with a view - 3-12-2013 at 08:20 PM

it's not like any new places need to be mapped is it? so what is pavement is coming.... YMMV.

Costly Maps

MrBillM - 3-12-2013 at 08:47 PM

With one exception in 38 years (2000), the ONLY service I've ever gotten from Auto Club has been Maps.

And, the last time I looked at one of the maps was a few years back in O.C. looking for a street.

But, like other insurance-type of service, I keep it "Just in case for the day" and just renewed for another year.

woody with a view - 3-12-2013 at 08:54 PM

well, i drive 180 miles each way to work. the peace (or is it piece?) of mind for a tow AND A RIDE home is outweighed by any cost.

[Edited on 3-13-2013 by woody with a view]

motoged - 3-13-2013 at 12:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
....the peace of mind for a tow AND A RIDE home is outweighed by any cost.
[Edited on 3-13-2013 by woody with a view]


Woody,
are you saying it isn't worth the cost....or the peace of mind IS worth the cost?:?:

woody with a view - 3-13-2013 at 04:08 AM

it is.

DENNIS - 3-13-2013 at 07:31 AM

GPS has done to mapmaking what email has done to the post office. It's a changing world out there.

daveB - 3-13-2013 at 08:23 AM

Some pretty glaring mistakes/omission lead us to ignore our Mexico maps from CAA which were AAA products. On our first driving trip into Mexico we bought Guia Roji, from the Mexican maker. Those together with Walmart maps for Stateside travel, help us out, along with a Garmin.

A crticism with the Guia Roji product is the lack of notation regarding elevations. But a stack of AAA maps still reside somewhere distamt from hand, for planning. I always thought it simply amazing that by calling BCAA about a planned trip we would get twenty pounds of books and maps come in the mail. Of course we payed for the service indirectly, along with the "trip tek" mini books that coloured our proposed route.

sancho - 3-13-2013 at 11:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by David K
Lets face it, 'nobody' is going to Mexico like the mobs of the past... too many think it is unsafe





I would think that the major reason, economy 2nd,
and for me, the border wait coming back. The unsafe
factor seems to be the overiding concern of people
I talk to, maybe the fact that the older some get,
the less of an attraction driving into Mex is

DENNIS - 3-13-2013 at 01:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by sancho
Quote:
Originally posted by David K
Lets face it, 'nobody' is going to Mexico like the mobs of the past... too many think it is unsafe





I would think that the major reason, economy 2nd,
and for me, the border wait coming back. The unsafe
factor seems to be the overiding concern of people
I talk to, maybe the fact that the older some get,
the less of an attraction driving into Mex is


The third nail in Mexico's tourism coffin is the border wait times. In fact, it may be higher than third.
Any one of the big three reasons could, at any given time , be number one, I suppose, but for sure, the three together are a lethal combination for tourism down here.

Police corruption is waiting in the wings to step up to the big three, and for some, already has.
Jeeezo....is there any hope?

David K - 3-13-2013 at 02:28 PM

Sure for the same amount of time I waited to cross back north, I could drive from San Diego to Las Vegas... 5 hours!

I would still rather go to Baja, any day!!!:bounce::bounce::bounce:

TMW - 3-14-2013 at 10:30 AM

I went by the AAA offficed and picked up two Baja and two Mexico maps yesterday. They were dated 2010. I asked if they were not going to make them for Baja and they said they had not heard anything about it. They probably wouldn't until the next shipment comes in.

El Comadante Loco - 3-15-2013 at 08:52 PM

Went to AAA San Bernardino plenty of Baja maps, got one.
No word on cancellation of maps

Bob H - 3-15-2013 at 09:21 PM

I passed by the AAA office near Poway Road and I-15 this morning... and I went in and asked for two Baja maps. She said, sure, and handed over two maps from a stack of them. 2010 edition still.

Then she said to me, "Is there a race or something going on down there? You are the third person this morning asking for a Baja map."

Must be a bunch of us Nomads making a mad dash to our local AAA shop to gobble them up!!
:lol:

bajaandy - 3-16-2013 at 08:23 AM

Paying registration at the Escondido AAA the other day and asked for a copy of the Baja map. No problem. No indication that they're not going to be carrying them any more.

bajajudy - 3-16-2013 at 08:26 AM

They have stopped updating the maps....and they no longer offer them to distributors like us.

David K - 3-16-2013 at 10:29 AM

How about we Nomads update it? We read trip reports and road conditions reports here, and show the changes on that part of the map. Here is a list of new paved roads since the 2010 printing of the map:

The new highway to San Juanico from Las Barrancas. Paving all the way into Asuncion, Abreojos, and almost to San Javier. Is the paved/ concrete road done all the way to San Jose Comondu (from Francisco Villa/ Poza Grande)? Paved part way to San Francisco de la Sierra and from Puertecitos to the Campo El Faro road. Also the entire road to the observatory is paved... and into Ejido Erendira, plus Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe) to Hwy. 1, north of El Tigre. Oh, that paved road north of Santa Rosalia to the volcano hotel and power station, too! San Ignacio south towards the lagoon for about 20 miles or more?

Any other new roads (paved or not paved roads)? The Paso Hondo (north of La Purisima) to Mulege road that KurtG and others have done, perhaps?