bigzaggin
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firewood
Gearing up for the annual long trip and wondering if this will be the year we get all of our firewood in Baja. For ages we've always brought in our
own oak pieces for campfire cooking (I'm sure there is some obscure, unenforced law against this), primarily because the quality of wood we've seen
for sale on the way down was just junky and no good for cooking (and also cause our drive down day we don't want to do much stopping).
However last year, we noticed the big store in El Rosario (the one just W of "The Turn") did seem to have an abundance of mesquite. Does anyone
happen to know if that supply is ALWAYS there? Can we count on it? I am sure there are other places to buy on the way down (I know about a few
outside of Maneadero), but the one in El Rosario is really our most convenient. Keep in mind this is for cooking over...
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mcnut
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Last winter we were able to buy firewood in Maneadero just south of Ensenada. A kid was selling on the W side of the road leaving town. Flimsy wood
crates with some split and some limbs.
We got 2 or 3 crates, sorry don't remember the price but did negotiate.
Bruce
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woody with a view
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check U2U on another subject.
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bkbend
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Just know that if you are checked there is an obscure, unenforced law against bringing firewood into Mexico.
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bajabuddha
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Not transporting in firewood is actually an appropriate law; it isn't just the wood, but the 'riders' you may be bringing with.... same going north.
Everyone loves to take home cholla skeleton cacti for décor, but it's amazing what can be living in it when you get home. Many different invasive
species have been imported to different places globally by 'good intentions'.
By your wood, you'll find plenty of people who will 'scrub' for you and let you have your romantic, esthetic or warming fire, while they go without
cooking fuel for a few extra pesos.
Where I used to camp for 15 years i'd bring firewood (driftwood) in my boat from inaccessible shores and share my load with the local beach patróns.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Quote: Originally posted by bkbend  | | Just know that if you are checked there is an obscure, unenforced law against bringing firewood into Mexico. |
Not unenforced. Reasonable amounts may be overlooked, but larger amounts will be turned back.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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San diego trees are being destroyed by invasive insects like the pine bark beetle and polyphagous shot hole borer.
The prohibitions on importing wood have real reasons behind them.
Leave your wood at home. Buy it locally.
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We bought a bunch of firewood from Mama Espinoza's last November. They had a few bundles out front and brought more out when we asked. Not cheap,
but all cut to size and ready to go.
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bigzaggin
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Thank you Ray. Any remembrance of what kind of wood it was? Mesquite by chance?
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We bought a bunch of firewood (mesquite) in El Rosario for the Baja 1000. We bought it at the newer store on the left (east) side of the highway
before Baja Cactus as you enter town. The guy who owns the place was super cool and the store was nice as well. The wood was out back so you might
have to ask for it.
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if you guys buy my propane refer I have a bunch of 3x3x18" oak dunnage as well as 4x6x18" scrap lumber that you can load up for the nice price of
FREE!
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As I was entering El Paballon RV camp in San Quintin, there was a large van with a Mexican couple gathering downed salt cedar limbs (is that what is
growing all over down there)? I would think they were gathering it to burn or sell. There was LOTS laying about.
PS: Although the Paballon RV camp was open, the office was closed and there was nobody staying there. Cars driving up and down the beach. I
considered overnighting there, but it was a little creepy being there by myself. I stayed at Cielito Lindo campground instead.
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TecateRay
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It was a hard wood, my guess would be mesquite.
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