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DianaT
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Driving the road
Ok, let's start an argument. Yes I know, we are all related as Nomads, so we all like everyone and all get along. 
This is one that John and I differ in opinion. Other than driving through the cities, which stretch of Highway 1---are you the least comfortable
driving?
I vote for the Santa Rosalia grade and the stretch of mountains just south of El Rosario.
Oh, this is just about driving, not about bandits, kidnappers, hijackers, or police---it is also not about Highway 1 in Alta California.
Diane
[Edited on 1-31-2008 by jdtrotter]
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comitan
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The worst stretch for me is the San Quintin corridor.
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jack
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Anything north of El Rosario. Just too much traffic.
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Jesus Maria to San Ignacio.
Seems like that stretch never ends with most of it very boring.
And the stretch from Constitution to just north of El Chien falls into that category also.
[Edited on 1-31-2008 by vandenberg]
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tripledigitken
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For me it's not the road it's the traffic.
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San Quentin
Otherwise it's all good.
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[Edited on 1-31-2008 by tripledigitken]
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Jesus Maria to San Ignacio.
Seems like that stretch never ends with most of it very boring.
[Edited on 1-31-2008 by vandenberg] |
Hey, we live in that area. We love those wide open spaces.
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BMG
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The last few miles north of Cabo.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Guerreo Negro to san Ignacio
Catavina to Guerrero Negro
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Just yesterday a friend and I were discussing our least favorite parts of the road and both of us chose the same ones as Diane; Santa Rosalia grade
and the stretch of mountains just south of El Rosario!
Love everything inbetween and beyond.
Well, with the exception of one particular curve going over the Gigantes heading towards Insurgentes. That one makes my steeringwheel sweat!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by comitan
The worst stretch for me is the San Quintin corridor. |
Ditto!!!!
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add my vote to this!!
| Quote: | Originally posted by Gadget
| Quote: | Originally posted by comitan
The worst stretch for me is the San Quintin corridor. |
Ditto!!!! |
Yep.
Lo mismo!!
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Roberto
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I get very uncomfortable in the section just south of El Pabellon and the inland/uphill turn a few miles south. It's just a few miles, but the road is
narrow there, and especially if I'm towing something that stretch gives me the willies and I get more alert.
The rest is a piece of cake. Especially at night!
P.S. The last trip down, I crossed at 4:00 AM, and took the free road through TJ to Rosarito. I must say that, for the first time, I was really
uncomfortable until I got to Ensenada. A first.
[Edited on 2-1-2008 by Roberto]
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
I get very uncomfortable in the section just south of El Pabellon and the inland/uphill turn a few miles south. It's just a few miles, but the road is
narrow there, and especially if I'm towing something that stretch gives me the willies and I get more alert.
The rest is a piece of cake. Especially at night!
P.S. The last trip down, I crossed at 4:00 AM, and took the free road through TJ to Rosarito. I must say that, for the first time, I was really
uncomfortable until I got to Ensenada. A first.
[Edited on 2-1-2008 by Roberto] |
Agree completely, Roberto, about that area. Have always referred to it as El Socorro. From there all the way to El Rosario is nervous time, including
the checkpoint up on the mesa.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CP
Just yesterday a friend and I were discussing our least favorite parts of the road and both of us chose the same ones as Diane; Santa Rosalia grade
and the stretch of mountains just south of El Rosario!
Love everything inbetween and beyond.
Well, with the exception of one particular curve going over the Gigantes heading towards Insurgentes. That one makes my steeringwheel sweat!
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Glad someone agrees with me---I find those two areas white knucklers.
I said John does not agree---he agrees with the north of El Rosario, especially the San Quintin area, and one nasty curve around KM119 north of
Catavina that really sneaks up you. There are always fresh tire tracks off the road right there---fortunately, not ours. 
Diane
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
From there all the way to El Rosario is nervous time, including the checkpoint up on the mesa. |
Ok, a VERY funny story about the checkpoint on the Mesa. In March of '05, I was returning from a whale trip at GN with my wife, a friend and his
4-year old son. Got stopped at the checkpoint, and they have jury-rigged two lanes there. We do the usual checkpoint Samba (or is it Mambo Mexicano)
and the soldier says go. I get started and at just exactly the right moment, the soldier in the lane next to us (right side of the truck), opens the
door of the brand-new Jeep Cherokee next to me and I -- rip of the door (or close to it)  .
Now, I'm not shy at these checkpoints, and I'm mad. I get out of the truck, the soldier says I cause an accident and I lose it. I start calling him a
marooon, WTF is he thinking, and get his commanding officer RIGHT 'ffing NOW - all in Spanish. My wife is looking to see if she can fit under the
seat, where she would be out of sight. She always says (did you notice they have GUNS? :lol . My friend, who is a newbie, but knows me well, is not sure
how to react, but he's starting to crack up. The Mexican has the same reaction I have and starts shouting from his end saying look what you guys have
done to my car, etc. etc. So here we are - waiting for the Jefe, and the soldados are looking mighty confused. It gets better. It turns out that the
guy in the other car is Mexican, lives in Tijuana and is an attorney!
Long story short, it takes almost three hours, and various rounds of negotiations, but we leave with CASH to repair the Jeep. The Jefe was a major on
tour from the D.F.
I didn't need any money, because when an F350 hits a Jeep ... well you get the picture. There was a tiny scratch on the bed that I rubbed out with
some compound at home. My wife is incredulous, my friend is rolling on the floor, and the Mexican attorney gives me his business card and a major
thumbs-up!
Another adventure in Mexico!
Took me a while to live down the "Captain Crash" moniker I earned from those that shall remain unnamed.
Carry on!
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Ken Bondy
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For me the stretch north of San Quintin between about Colonet and Ensenada has always been very tedious (I don't exactly know what the "San Quintin
corridor" is, maybe that's it). Lots of turns, lots of big trucks coming at you around every one. For some reason it's always tougher for me
northbound, maybe that's because it's always at the end of a trip. ++Ken++
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David K
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Gee the hills out of El Rosario is where you first see boojum trees and can pretend you have just landed on another planet!
If I had to name a least favorite part of Mex. 1 (outside of cities), I would say just south of Maneadero to Km. 0 south of San Quintin, because of
heavy traffic or trucks that you want to pass because the road is busy enough to be a four lane highway, but isn't. The other place is between
Constitucion and Santa Rita (or El Cien)... just so dull...
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Hook
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Did they ever finish that bridge north of San Ignacio?
Clearly, I havent been down that far in a couple years.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
I get very uncomfortable in the section just south of El Pabellon and the inland/uphill turn a few miles south. It's just a few miles, but the road is
narrow there, and especially if I'm towing something that stretch gives me the willies and I get more alert.
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That's our least favorite stretch as well. It seems that not only is the road narrow there, but it has a crown to it that makes you feel like you're
fighting the wheel to stay on the road.
Fred Hoctor once told me that he hated that part of the drive south as well.
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most of it...
up until the last 7-10 miles where we turn off and head for the coast.....
sabe?
[Edited on 2-1-2008 by woody in ob]
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