Croft
Newbie
Posts: 11
Registered: 7-19-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
Our Winter in Baja plan
We are a young 70's Canadian couple of seasoned Mexico Mainland RVers. We have spent a sum total of 3 - 4 years traveling virtually every mainland
state of Mexico. We 'did' the Baja in 1981 in a car and hotels but have not been back since. This trip will be in a 31' Class C towing a small car.
We are heading down in November after a stop in Algodones to complete some dental work started last winter. We will return to Canada at the end of
April so we plan on spending approx 5 months on the Baja. We travel slow, stop where we like it and stay as long as we want. We never make
reservations.
We spend pesos and speak enough Spanish to get by. We love the Mexican people. The general plan is to slowly make our way down the Peninsula, probably
all the way and then maybe returning home by way of the ferry from La Paz to Mazatlan. This decision will be made much later.
We are getting tons of information from the forum. Keep the beer cold for us while we seek the perfect fish taco! We look forward to meeting some of
you.
[Edited on 7-23-2015 by Croft]
|
|
|
Udo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6343
Registered: 4-26-2008
Location: Black Hills, SD/Ensenada/San Felipe
Member Is Offline
Mood: TEQUILA!
|
|
Welcome to Nomads, Croft.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
|
|
|
BajaKeela
Junior Nomad
Posts: 94
Registered: 5-9-2008
Location: Vancouver Island
Member Is Offline
|
|
Hi Croft ..let me be the first to welcome you to Nomads ..
We are also going back to Baja after three years on the mainland. We'll be leaving Vancouver Island Oct 2 and crossing at Tecate mid Oct. Hope to
run into you guys again. Last time was in Jackpot a couple of years ago. U2U if you need any info.
You'll enjoy this forum ...lots of great people here.
|
|
|
BajaKeela
Junior Nomad
Posts: 94
Registered: 5-9-2008
Location: Vancouver Island
Member Is Offline
|
|
HaHa ..I don't type fast enough to be first.
|
|
|
AKgringo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6004
Registered: 9-20-2014
Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
Member Is Online
Mood: Retireded
|
|
Your profile sounds just like my parents, except they did their Mexican road trips during the 70's and 80's. I think their last trip was in '91'and
just to Puerto Penasco, but they covered most of the country over the decades, starting in 1957.
I might run into you folks since I will be SOB in October and November. If you need emergency dental work after you leave Algodones, I use a good one
in La Paz. You did not mention traveling with pets, but I can recommend a veterinarian on the East side of La Paz that speaks English as if it is her
first language, and it might be.
If you haven't done so yet, go to the trip report forum, and browse for information that has already been posted. When I first did that, I found
answers to questions that I would not have thought to ask!
Have a great trip!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
|
|
|
BajaBlanca
Select Nomad
Posts: 13195
Registered: 10-28-2008
Location: La Bocana, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
welcome Croft! Be sure to hit us out of the way villages like Bahia and Asuncion (where Shari is) and La Bocana (where we are) to introduce
yourselves.
Blanca
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13045
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
Welcome to the sandbox folks and good for you for coming to do baja this winter...you will have a wonderful time and we look forward to meeting you if
you wander out way. We have a rustic campground with hookups at the beach in Asuncion this central part of baja is still like the old baja...real
friendly! Some people use this area as a base and go exploring in their vehicles they tow...great shore fishing in front of the camp too...have fun
kids!
|
|
|
Croft
Newbie
Posts: 11
Registered: 7-19-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
Thanks for the welcome everyone! We have no pets and I forgot to mention that we live on Vancouver Island. More crazy Canucks.
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13045
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
woo hooo...more Islanders coming! Check your U2U at the top of the page for a private message so we dont bore the Americans here with our talk of
beer, maple syrup and moose etc. eh!
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
Shari loves Moose Drool! 
|
|
|
redmesa
Senior Nomad
Posts: 580
Registered: 3-12-2008
Location: Van Isle and Bahia Asuncion
Member Is Offline
|
|
Vancouver Island is well represented in Baja. Check with Shari and visit me in Bahia Asuncion or I may run in to you at a VI event.
|
|
|
sancho
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2524
Registered: 10-6-2004
Location: OC So Cal
Member Is Offline
|
|
Croft, that is an impressive, nice well rounded resume you're sporting. Yrs back, met a guy in San Felipe in a Bounder MH, had 1 of those maps
with all the states filled in, but this was a map of Mex, all 32
or so states. A lot of my best Mex adventures was not knowing what was around the next bend nor the next day, that sounds
like the way you travel
|
|
|
Croft
Newbie
Posts: 11
Registered: 7-19-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
Like this? 
It will be completely filled this winter!
[Edited on 7-24-2015 by Croft]
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
