natedogg
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Good places to stop between Tijuana and San Felipe?
Am driving from Tijuana to San Felipe / Puertocitos, and we have a little extra time, so was wondering if anyone has any good suggestions for places
to stop between the two? Any awesome beaches, cool points of interest, things that are a little diff from normal? Anything in Ensenada or the road
between Ensenada and San Felipe? Thanks for the help!
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Pompano
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Hmmmmm? Tijuana to San Felipe?.......Can't think of any...but then maybe I have not been making that trip enough. I would like to know myself.
Surely someone can contribute some advice for both of us?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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John M
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How much time....and
and...what type of vehicle?
If you have a pickup truck or other with just a little clearance I'd certainly not pass up the opportunity to visit Mike's Sky Ranch. It's about a 20
mile, each way, detour on a dirt road which is usually in decent shape. The turn off is a little over half way from Ensenada to Highway 5 - it's well
signed at the turn off the highway. It's on all the maps. A cool spot (could be cold actually as it's in the mountains). This would be a half day trip
- try to eat there if the restaurant is open but at least have a margarita and check the place out.
Just for the flavor of a small town you might want to drive through the village of Lazaro Card##as (Valle de Trinidad) it is only a short drive off
highway 3 - we've eaten at a small stand in town, some kind of "foreign meat" in the tacos. - could it have been iguana? awfully small bones
throughout.
Once you get to El Crucero, where you pick up Highway 5 head south to San Felipe. In a mile or two look for a good dirt road heading east toward the
water, it's only maybe another two miles to the shore. The last time we were there we watched salt harvesting going on. Trucks driving out onto the
flats, interesting - but not terribly.
John M
[Edited on 2-17-2006 by John M]
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mcgyver
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Well , while you are sight seeing take the turn off to Ojos Negros, you might catch the good flea market at the park in operation. Go to the Los Pinos
Liquor store and see the Tequilas, ask my friend the owner Jose Luis Barrjas how to get to Real de Castillo to see the Museo and the remains of the
capital of Baja in the 1860's. Leaving Ojos Negros you can take the good gravel road to La Huerta a Indian town, continue back to the paved highway
on this road through some interesting hills and canyons to the pavement. You could take the turn off to El Alamo and now a almost total ghost town
another remainder of the gold rush days. In other words every road has something at the end of it, take one and see!
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Bruce R Leech
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toll booths
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abreojos
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When you gotta take a leak...
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At KM 123 (ez to remember) There's a good spot to pull off. It's on the mine road that seems to be inactive now. There's two entrances (or exits)
about 100 yds apart and you can pull in on one and exit on the other. Good place for a pit stop and a cool one before you hit the Crucero check point
(about 10 more miles).....
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