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Terry28
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Location: S.Calif mtns.
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As for the spray, I have always told them we had a dog in the car so please don't spray....they don't, but still had to pay the 10-20 peso fee....
Mexico!! Where two can live as cheaply as one.....but it costs twice as much.....
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monoloco
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Location: Pescadero BCS
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That spray smells just like tap water to me.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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DavidE
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Posts: 3814
Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Here is what happened TWICE.
INM man comes out. "Where is your tourist card?
Show him pasaporte. This is what the law says you show not the IFE card.
Confusion? So I whip out my Michoacan DL.
Both asked me to pull over to the side.
They take my pasaporte inside.
I wait forever. They last guy left me hanging and processed three cars, one of which the occupants did not have tourist cards. That ate 20 minutes by
itself.
So I roar into Guerrero to the INM office
"Oh señor you do not need a tourist card if you are ciudadano.
No **** Sherlock
I end up driving in the dark after being delayed. I drive from Ensenada and I do not want to be hung up. When I am able to see at night again this
will not be a problem.
By the way scoping it out today, they took ALL signs down for the airport turnoff. All of them.
And there is a serious as hell puesto de control permanente 30 miles north of Guerrero Negro now.
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rts551
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You sure seem to have more problems than most David. Eve wondeer why?
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Here is what happened TWICE.
INM man comes out. "Where is your tourist card?
Show him pasaporte. This is what the law says you show not the IFE card.
Confusion? So I whip out my Michoacan DL.
Both asked me to pull over to the side.
They take my pasaporte inside.
I wait forever. They last guy left me hanging and processed three cars, one of which the occupants did not have tourist cards. That ate 20 minutes by
itself.
So I roar into Guerrero to the INM office
"Oh señor you do not need a tourist card if you are ciudadano.
No **** Sherlock
I end up driving in the dark after being delayed. I drive from Ensenada and I do not want to be hung up. When I am able to see at night again this
will not be a problem.
By the way scoping it out today, they took ALL signs down for the airport turnoff. All of them.
And there is a serious as hell puesto de control permanente 30 miles north of Guerrero Negro now. |
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comitan
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Registered: 3-27-2004
Location: La Paz
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ATTITUDE---ATTITUDE---ATTITUDE.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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DavidE
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Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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No. I spend ALL my time in Mexico. 24/7/365 for years at a time. Tomorrow will be my first entry into the USA since early 2011. Then for 24 hours and
then get the hell out. I don't sit 200 miles distant from the Mexican border and pontificate.
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Udo
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Location: Black Hills, SD/Ensenada/San Felipe
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If you look at the receipt the "sprayers" give you, it clearly states the receipt id=s for 10 pesos. They try to get 20 and pocket the other 10.
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been throught twice this year, north bound not asked, but south bound
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Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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Bajahowodd
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First of all, the spray IS optional. Just decline it. I always tell them I have allergies, and I'm waived on through. Second of all, if you don't get
the spray, there is no reason to pay anything, lest the place just becomes a toll booth for travelers between the states.
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DavidE
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Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Apart from my indomitable sarcasm on this forum, I am not a grumpy person. I chatted with a soldado today when I pulled over at their puesto de
control to stretch my legs. Good kid, from Tlaxcala. I told him my favorite Mexican military joke and they all broke out laughing even the sargento.
They shook my hand and I went on my way. No I can't tell the joke here. The webmaster would banish me, but it starts out...a gringo, a jota and a
catholic priest all show up at a puesto at the same time...
2:42 minutes at San Ysidro. All the actors were out there in the lanes. I asked a preventiva what happened to the disabled unfortunates scootering
around on wheeled creepers "No dar permiso para ellos". He went on to explain how one guy got stuck under a vehicle and CBP had to run up the line
screaming for the driver to stop. I told one of the guys with the biggest stand that he could sell pee cups (1 liter) for 12 pesos. "¿Bacios?" he was
incredulous. "Por cierto" Empties, I replied. I explained their intended use and he positively cracked up. Called his wife over and she nodded. "With
Lids!" I emphasized, "Dios Mio don't try to sell cups without tight sealing lids". The lady nodded with a faraway look in her eyes: Betcha nickel
empty cups start getting promo'd. Find a need a fill it...
Had dinner ayer at Baja's Best. Before I knew it I was staring at a piano sized transformer out back that the owner planning to erect on a pole. "It
(power) comes all the way down here from Rosarito. And I'm at the bitter end of the line".
Puts out a great burger and fries for 70 pesos. Charbroiled over mesquite, 1/3rd pound.
But that 30 peso cup of coffee I had at Espinosa's this morning ($2.35) with breakfast was a little rich for my blood. The place does put out a good
60 peso plate of chilaquiles. But the rest of the breakfast menu was kinda pricey. Baja's Best was dark when I passed it. At 2PM Baja Cactus reported:
Hotel Completo. Full up.
I did not count but there had to be no less than 200 RV's that came past me between Maneadero and Vizcaino. One was a caravan with 15 or so rigs in
it.
For David K, some gasolinera tipo de cambios were as low as 11 to 1, the highest was 12.35.
Pretty serious construction between Ensenada and El Rosario. Three or four lengthy detours. Dirt studded with fist-size rocks. A rather uncomfortable
ride.
Gas price in Rosarito was 10 centavos liter higher than it was at Antonio's place. 11.71 liter for Magna and 12.15 for Premium down south.
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DavidE
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3814
Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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No, he is gringo. Nice person. He teased me about his "UMSDA Prime" mesquite charbroiled steaks. If I don't limp out of here flat busted tomorrow and
if the suddenly vibrating CV joint in the transaxle doesn't blow up, I may take him up on it.
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