latitude26n
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When the road doesn't beckon
Here's an assortment of "Other" Baja Road photos:
Sept. '90 the day after a tropical storm passed thru San Jose del Cabo. We were waiting in line on the Hwy to cross the flooded arroyo by Costa Azul,
and felt a sudden KER-PLUNK as the road disappeared beneath our truck.
The front end of the truck came to rest on our Burro Bumper (something Mr latitude fabricated from the aluminum frame off a dump truck) and we
teetered there for about 10 minutes while someone ran down and got one of the towtrucks that was pulling stuck cars out of the arroyo.
The grua lifted us up out of the hole (by the Bumper) and we got back in line. In typical Mexico fashion, the entire event was over in about 20
minutes, but it's something we'll never forget!
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The Hwy bridge over the arroyo at Brisa del Mar RV Park after the same tropical storm.
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Vizcaino, Sept 2004
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Even on a bright sunny day you never know what's around the next curve.
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comitan
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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! to the road giveway, to vizcaino I was there that night there was a highway patrolman with flashing lights and cars alongside the
road I slowed because I thought there was a wreck, then continued on till I saw the water, stopped in the water, backed out then went back up the hill
slept about 3 hours then cars starting, I'm gone.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Great photos!
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latitude26n
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Comitan,
I wonder if this is the arroyo that you're thinking of (it's north of the Vizcaino Pemex). We waited 4 hours for this one to recede back in Sept, and
eventually followed a caravan of cars and trucks down a dirt road led by a Fed. Camino that took us thru the desert and farms and we came out on the
paved road that goes out to Bahia Tortuga.
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We drove another 30 min. south of the Vizcaino Pemex and came to the flooded arroyo in the first photo above. No waiting around for us this time, and
we plowed across arroyo #2.
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comitan
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Thats the same arroyo, but I didn't get throught till about 1:30- 2:00AM the next morning Its 2 to 3 miles north of pemex and the timing is right.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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