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MEX1 FROM LOS BARRILES TO SAN JOSE

BAJA.DESERT.RAT - 8-11-2016 at 01:29 PM

Hola,

just posted on bajaponyexpress.

8/10/16 Road report: The road is perfect from Los Barriles to San Jose. Warning! We traveled last night at 8PM. There are cows all along (and on) the roadside between LB and San Jose. We stopped counting at 60.

OBVIOUSLY...DO NOT DRIVE AT NIGHT !!! POSSIBLY GOING NORTH AS WELL ?

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT

BajaUtah - 8-11-2016 at 01:33 PM

Well, that's a nice change of pace because it's usually goats I see along there.

Cows are easier to see and I don't think they move as fast as those little weed eating speedsters.

David K - 8-11-2016 at 01:56 PM

Thank you for spelling BARRILES correctly!!!

When you are thinking if it is two L's or two R's, just remember two L's make a Y sound, like in Tortilla...

BAJA.DESERT.RAT - 8-11-2016 at 04:09 PM

HOLA DK,

You are very welcome.

i sure do hope i can spell the town i lived in and loved for for about seven years. prior to that, myself and about 30 friends used to fish at palmas and other great towns in baja sur.

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT

David K - 8-11-2016 at 04:25 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BAJA.DESERT.RAT  
HOLA DK,

You are very welcome.

i sure do hope i can spell the town i lived in and loved for for about seven years. prior to that, myself and about 30 friends used to fish at palmas and other great towns in baja sur.

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT



I still can remember eating dinner, family style at Rancho Buena Vista Resort, in 1966.

At the dinner table,
One of the guests asked my dad if we just flew in...
My dad responded that we drove.
The other guest said, oh, you took the new ferry across from Mazatlan and drove down from La Paz?
My dad said, no, we drove all the way down the peninsula from Tijuana!
The guest looked to be in shock, and said, "LET ME SHAKE YOUR HAND!"

Those are some of the wonderful memories I have of Baja before pavement!

Udo - 8-11-2016 at 04:54 PM

Where is the LIKE button?:bounce:
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by BAJA.DESERT.RAT  
HOLA DK,

You are very welcome.

i sure do hope i can spell the town i lived in and loved for for about seven years. prior to that, myself and about 30 friends used to fish at palmas and other great towns in baja sur.

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT



I still can remember eating dinner, family style at Rancho Buena Vista Resort, in 1966.

At the dinner table,
One of the guests asked my dad if we just flew in...
My dad responded that we drove.
The other guest said, oh, you took the new ferry across from Mazatlan and drove down from La Paz?
My dad said, no, we drove all the way down the peninsula from Tijuana!
The guest looked to be in shock, and said, "LET ME SHAKE YOUR HAND!"

Those are some of the wonderful memories I have of Baja before pavement!

BAJA.DESERT.RAT - 8-11-2016 at 06:11 PM

Hola DK,

your family must have been extremely adventurous. i've driven from tijuana to los barriles about seven times but i cannot imagine what it was like prior to mex 1 being paved all the way to cabo.

bringing food and drinks, buying gas, having flats, having enough water, ETC.

i am glad people like yourselves post reports and pictures from the past so we can try and envision the hardships you went through...and the joys of being the early pioneers seeing what baja was like then.

THANK YOU,

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT

David K - 8-11-2016 at 07:31 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BAJA.DESERT.RAT  
Hola DK,

your family must have been extremely adventurous. i've driven from tijuana to los barriles about seven times but i cannot imagine what it was like prior to mex 1 being paved all the way to cabo.

bringing food and drinks, buying gas, having flats, having enough water, ETC.

i am glad people like yourselves post reports and pictures from the past so we can try and envision the hardships you went through...and the joys of being the early pioneers seeing what baja was like then.

THANK YOU,

BIEN SALUD, DA RAT


I am of the generation that spans old with new... Highway 1 was completed the year I got my driver's license. My parents had a Jeep Wagoneer and we began Baja exploring in 1965. That 1966 Tijuana to Cabo trip was an amazing adventure. Imagine going 100-150 miles in a day and that was a good day! Pavement ended near Colonet and didn't begin again until 100 miles before La Paz, and ended again 10 miles south of La Paz. No grading, just a pair of ruts (single lane dirt) from El Rosario to San Ignacio then again south of Mulege through Comondu and single track again south of San Bartolo to Cabo San Lucas and up to Todos Santos. Passing another car was rare.. if you did come to someone going the other way, it was cause for a social meeting to ask about the road ahead.



[Edited on 8-12-2016 by David K]