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bike4mee
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Non-essential travel?
Hey nomads
I hope followers start posting on border crossing hassles. Is there going to be a mexican crackdown on non-essential travel? From what I understand
there is no problems getting in now. We are thinking of going down in a week. Of course staying safe with full precautions.
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David K
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There was talk that Mexicali began enforcing... long lines going into Mexico there. [this is just something I read, not personal experience]
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JZ
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Every job is essential. Every person is essential.
Go, have fun. Use the same safe guards you would in your home town. Hell, you are less likely to bump into ppl in Baja.
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motoged
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Essential travel isn't really something that each individual gets to determine according to their personal whims and/or self-centerdness; there are
guidelines posted and available for more objective criteria than solely self interest.
I am aware of at least one Nomad who encourages frequent travel whenever and wherever one wants . Some folks have immediate family members with Covid
infection and still follow their whims regarding travel.
I just shake my head at how some folks want so much to have their "normal" life activities continue in such abnormal times.
"C'mon.....jump in....the water's fine" said the frog in the pot of water set to boil....
Don't believe everything you think....
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PaulW
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There have been random stops on the US side and on the Mx side and folks are asked why they want to cross the border. Proof of residency and proof of
a home was required each time. We carry our electric bill which supposedly will work for us. So far we have not been stopped. My son and his wife have
been stopped twice once once on each of the border.
People asking questions are from immigration.
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JZ
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Quote: Originally posted by PaulW  | There have been random stops on the US side and on the Mx side and folks are asked why they want to cross the border. Proof of residency and proof of
a home was required each time. We carry our electric bill which supposedly will work for us. So far we have not been stopped. My son and his wife have
been stopped twice once once on each of the border.
People asking questions are from immigration. |
How long ago were they stopped?
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PaulW
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Not long. Just long enough to show the two items for driver. in both stops.
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surabi
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| Quote: Originally posted by lencho | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | There was talk that Mexicali began enforcing... long lines going into Mexico there. [this is just something I read, not personal experience]
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There is also recent talk of deeming tourism an essential activity in certain regions, due to its economic importance.* Things change by the week.
*Source: Press conference with Hugo Lopez Gatell
The man's a dangerous idiot and should be fired.
Yesterday he dismissed the need for incoming travelers to produce a negative COVID test, saying "Sick people don't travel".
How does he think a disease turns into a pandemic? It just sprouts wings and flies across the ocean? How does he think it got to Mexico in the first
place?
It's mind blowing that this level of ignorance holds the reins of the federal pandemic response.
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PaulW
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Our last crossing Southbound we did not make the 2PM closing for East and Algodones crossing went to the Mexicali crossing found all the streets to
the border blocked with cops. Found the main road leading from the west and found a huge traffic jam - two lanes with folks driving on the shoulder.
Looked like the line went on Hwy 98 most of the way to I8. We found a hotel in El Centro and crossed the next AM.
Early closing sure put a huge burden on the only one left for the commuters.
Otherwise crossings south before 2PM has resulted in no lines at all. Thus giving the Mx officials more time to scrutinize the gringos.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | There was talk that Mexicali began enforcing... long lines going into Mexico there. [this is just something I read, not personal experience]
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JC43
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| Quote: Originally posted by PaulW | Our last crossing Southbound we did not make the 2PM closing for East and Algodones crossing went to the Mexicali crossing found all the streets to
the border blocked with cops. Found the main road leading from the west and found a huge traffic jam - two lanes with folks driving on the shoulder.
Looked like the line went on Hwy 98 most of the way to I8. We found a hotel in El Centro and crossed the next AM.
Early closing sure put a huge burden on the only one left for the commuters.
Otherwise crossings south before 2PM has resulted in no lines at all. Thus giving the Mx officials more time to scrutinize the gringos.
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I am guessing that you do not understand that the US / MX border is the most busy border in the world. It is normal that both sides are occupied w/
long traffic lines every day. The MX official are scrutinizing the gringos? Well, then travel northbound as a non US Citizen and see how the US
officials are treating these folks.
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JZ
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Sorry, I meant when did this happen, recently, or back in the earlier days?
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motoged
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When would "earlier days" be?
Pretty vague time line. Earlier than what/when?
Don't believe everything you think....
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PaulW
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2 weeks ago
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eguillermo
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I think I'm now committed to trying to cross at Mexicali a week from today.
However, if we know for sure it's the hassle-ingest crossing, I guess Tijuana or Otay could work . . .
If anyone goes down in the meantime, please update this thread! I'll do the same next week.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by eguillermo | I think I'm now committed to trying to cross at Mexicali a week from today.
However, if we know for sure it's the hassle-ingest crossing, I guess Tijuana or Otay could work . . .
If anyone goes down in the meantime, please update this thread! I'll do the same next week. |
Is your travel essential?
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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Bajazly
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I crossed north today Mexicali East, nightmare, crossed back south this afternoon Mexicali West, nightmare squared.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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bike4mee
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can you elaborate on the "nightmare" statement?
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MulegeAL
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From cbp wait time website is 90 minutes north bound at Calexico west, 7 lanes open at time of this post.
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s/v Ola Chica
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| Quote: Originally posted by bike4mee | Hey nomads
I hope followers start posting on border crossing hassles. Is there going to be a mexican crackdown on non-essential travel? From what I understand
there is no problems getting in now. We are thinking of going down in a week. Of course staying safe with full precautions. |
All border crossing hassles are not created equal. I have used San Ysidro regularly during the entire pandemic. Zero issues @ the border, in either
direction.
Getting into/beyond Ensenada last year (Mar, April, May) required proof of residency @ revision/checkpoint prior to Ensenada proper...I told them I
lived on my boat & showed them my Coral marina receipts. Good enough. The revision/checkpoint @ Ensenada wasn't there on my last trip mid-Jan
2021.
Insofar as essential travel, I employ three people, helping support three separate families in Ensenada. They wouldn't have had Christmas had I not
gone down, much less much to eat. Essential enough?
"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, rather than a long life spent in a miserable way."
-Alan Watts
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BajaBlanca
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Huge electronic sign on highway 5 south saying travel into Mexico only for essential travel but we saw nothing about this once we got across the
border in Tj today. No documents being asked for, nada.
My husband Les and I were in separate cars and we both got the green light! yessssssssssssss I had some plants and did not want them taken
away...guilty guilty guilty!
Hanging out in Ensenada waiting to head home tomorrow.
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