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TMW
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What does Mike's charge to stay overnight now. Last time I stayed there several years ago it was $70 and included dinner and breakfast.
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David K
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Looking back on a 15-year-old post about a 1972 trip.
The map I made when I was 15:
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Tioloco
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Anybody been to Mikes lately?
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wiltonh
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Many yeas ago my wife an I spent some time in San Felipe and were headed back to the states. We were driving a 1976 Dodge van pulling a motorcycle
trailer with two motorcycles on board. We had heard of Mike's Sky Ranch but had never been there so we pulled off the highway, parked the van and rode
the motorcycles up to the ranch. We headed out on an old road towards the observatory and my wife dumped her bike into a ditch and broke her
collarbone. It took a while but I ferried her and the bike back to the ranch where they let her sit in the lobby.
I headed back to get the van and trailer. Part way down the mountain I met a truck load of guys and they were yelling at me in Spanish. I did not
understand so I kept on going. I was in a hurry so I was probably doing 70 MPH on the flat when I saw something in the road. I locked up the bike
and slid up to dirt that had been piled in the road. They had dug a cattle guard and the road was blocked as there was a 3 foot bank on both sides.
I could not get the bike stopped and ended up dumping it against the dirt. About that time a dump truck came and he broke down the bank and pushed
two tracks around the dirt pile. I was able to get the bike started and used his tracks to get back to the van. I drove the van up to Mike's sky
ranch and picked up my wife and her bike.
She was complaining about the rough road so I took a large white nylon rope and tied her arm against her body and then around the captains chair.
When we got to Ensenada I made an illegal turn for that time of day and got stopped by a cop. He looked into the window of the van and saw my wife
tied up and it is a very good thing she speaks Spanish as I might have gone to jail. Once he understood what had gone on he told us to follow him and
he took us through the housing district so we missed all the speed bumps which made my wife happy.
When we got to the US boarder the guard saw her tied up and wanted to know what was going on. We told him and he waived us through. One of my more
interesting days in Baja.
[Edited on 7-25-2026 by wiltonh]
[Edited on 7-26-2026 by wiltonh]
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Tioloco
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Quote: Originally posted by wiltonh  | Many yeas ago my wife an I spent some time in San Felipe and were headed back to the states. We were driving a 1976 Dodge van pulling a motorcycle
trailer with two motorcycles on board. We had heard of Mike's Sky Ranch but had never been there so we pulled off the highway, parked the van and rode
the motorcycles up to the ranch. We headed out on an old road towards the observatory and my wife dumped her bike into a ditch and broke her
collarbone. It took a while but I ferried her and the bike back to the ranch where they let her sit in the lobby.
I headed back to get the van and trailer. Part way down the mountain I met a truck load of guys and they were yelling at me in Spanish. I did not
understand so I kept on going. I was in a hurry so I was probably doing 70 MPH on the flat when I saw something in the road. I locked up the bike
and slid up to dirt that had been piled in the road. They had dug a cattle guard and the road was blocked as there was a 3 foot bank on both sides.
I could not get the bike stopped and ended up dumping it against the dirt. About that time a dump truck came and he broke down the bank and pushed
two tracks around the dirt pile. I was able to get the bike started and used his tracks to get back to the van. I drove the van up to Mike's sky
ranch and picked up my wife and her bike.
She was complaining about the rough road so I took a large white nylon rope and tied her arm against her body and then around the captains chair.
When we got to Ensenada I made an illegal turn for that time of day and got stopped by a cop. He looked into the window of the van and saw my wife
tied up and it is a very good thing she speaks Spanish as I might have gone to jail. Once he understood what had gone on he told us to follow him and
he took us through the housing district so we missed all the speed bumps which made my wife happy.
When we got to the US boarder the guard saw her tied up and wanted to know what was going on. We told him and he waived us through. One of my more
interesting days in Baja.
[Edited on 7-25-2026 by wiltonh]
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That is an adventure, Wilton! Hopefully your wife maintained her sense of adventure
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surfhat
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Wilton, thanks for sharing your unfortunate and yet still fortunate experience.
Baja Nomad, thanks for providing a source for some to share their
personal adventures.
We all have them and they could fill volumes.
Thanks to all Nomads for this gift.
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lencho
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Hey, Dave-- since you now have your own space, have you considered putting all those Photobucket-watermarked (yuck!) images on VivaBaja and editing
those old posts to include the new location? Just saying...
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by lencho |
Hey, Dave-- since you now have your own space, have you considered putting all those Photobucket-watermarked (yuck!) images on VivaBaja and editing
those old posts to include the new location? Just saying... |
Any posts that come up, I could, or use Postimages.org, which still is free and no watermark. The other uncool thing Photobucket did was remove the
size adjustment so those images are bigger than the Nomad page... quite irritating.
I have replaced some where the watermark was distracting greatly... and resized other down to 800 pixels. Of course, only if I have those photos saved
on my PC or can find unblemished ones. The Mike's Sky Rancho brochure images with watermark/above are very easy to read, at least on my PC.
Just make a request on what post or thread you want to be watermark-free, and I will add it to my very large retirement project list! LOL
Thank you!
[Edited on 7-26-2026 by David K]
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bajatrailrider
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Thanks David great post from the past . I used to take all Baja moto tours to Mikes. I know every trail up there always fun. I have not been to Mikes
overnight stay in years. WE do stop in for lunch on day trail rides. Any overnight stays at El Coyotes or Meling much better.
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