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AAW - 11-26-2015 at 12:37 PM

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

David K - 11-26-2015 at 01:05 PM

Have fun in the Baja! Are you driving down from the Canada?
Welcome to Nomad.

AAW - 11-26-2015 at 07:21 PM

Driving from Vancouver, visiting friends in Lake Havasu City then crossing at Tecate, Hwy 3 to Ensenada for Costco and Telcel sim card.

ehall - 11-26-2015 at 07:40 PM

Any destination in mind ?

micah202 - 11-26-2015 at 07:50 PM

Quote: Originally posted by ehall

Any destination in mind ?

....they've got 4 months. 'Baja' is likely specific enough!

AAW - 11-26-2015 at 08:57 PM

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.

BajaBlanca - 11-26-2015 at 09:00 PM

come meet this nomad in la bocana!

BornFisher - 11-26-2015 at 09:26 PM

From an old timer to a first timer, best to you guys.

ehall - 11-27-2015 at 05:05 AM

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.

DENNIS - 11-27-2015 at 07:43 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Have fun in the Baja! Are you driving down from the Canada?
Welcome to Nomad.

David K - 11-27-2015 at 12:41 PM

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:

motoged - 11-27-2015 at 01:05 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Funny how easily we can tell if a newbie is from Canada!

And what psychic powers enable such ease?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q

shari - 11-27-2015 at 01:44 PM

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!

AAW - 11-28-2015 at 10:45 AM

Definitely will visit. Road OK for motorhome? Can't figure out how everybody knows we're Canadians. Must work on our Texas drawl .

bajaguy - 11-28-2015 at 11:30 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AAW

.....Can't figure out how everybody knows we're Canadians.........

It's the "the" you put in front of Baja (the Baja)

motoged - 11-28-2015 at 12:06 PM

Quote: Originally posted by bajaguy

Quote: Originally posted by AAW

.....Can't figure out how everybody knows we're Canadians.........

It's the "the" you put in front of Baja (the Baja)

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... :saint:

Ricardo - 11-28-2015 at 07:29 PM

And by the way "the Baja" is correct as the Baja is a peninsula.

Ricardo - 11-28-2015 at 08:48 PM

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)

David K - 11-28-2015 at 11:16 PM

My CB handle in the 70s was "The Baja"!

AAW - 1-20-2016 at 02:10 PM

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.

vandenberg - 1-20-2016 at 02:36 PM

Quote: Originally posted by motoged

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Funny how easily we can tell if a newbie is from Canada!

And what psychic powers enable such ease?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q

Us Yankees is smart. :lol: