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oldjack
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Salt Lake City to LaPaz
Family members will be leaving Salt Lake City and driving south to LaPaz for 3-4 week visit....
what route is recommended from Las Vegas southward and to which border crossing... AAA recommended going thru San Diego... seems out of the way????
they have been lurkers on the website.. but have only flown down in the past.... this time it is an auto-tour...
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lee
| Quote: | Originally posted by oldjack
what route is recommended from Las Vegas southward and to which border crossing... AAA recommended going thru San Diego... seems out of the way????
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SLC to Oceanside about 8 hours. I-15 from SLC South to 91 to 55 to 5 South (at Anaheim). I like staying in Oceanside the night before crossing.
About 45 minutes to the Border crossing about 6am. No problem. |
lee is wrong to divert you thru OC, he is just diverting you thru OC traffic nightmare that only works off peak hours.
fastest is south I-15 thru san diego to south I-5 which takes you to mex border at TJ, where you cross and take mex route 1 to la paz.
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comitan
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Go with the goat!
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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Cypress
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Go to Mexicali, then down along Hwy 5! You'll get the real deal and have a story to tell.
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Bajahowodd
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I'm with staying on the I-15 to either I-805 or I-5. From 805, you can go to either Otay or San Ysidro.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I'm with staying on the I-15 to either I-805 or I-5. From 805, you can go to either Otay or San Ysidro. |
newbies should go to otay only if they want their first taste of mexico to be getting lost in TJ.
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If they are going to need FM-Ts, San Ysidro is their best bet, by far. There is a really excellent thread on doing this (I don't know how to link a
thread yet, but you can search for it, or maybe someone would be kind enough to link it?). The whole process takes about 15 minutes, and is much
easier at San Ysidro than anywhere else.
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Bajahowodd
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Both goat and Lisa make good points.
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Lee
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Boy was that a brainfart.
Stay out of OC -- I was wrong. Stay on I-15 to SD. I'd stay overnight in that area and cross the next morning. Or, you could take the
scenic route down the coast and stop in San Juan Capistrano for dinner at El Molino de Oro.
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Well, my wife thinks that all roads in California are populated by stupid, speeding crazies who pass you in the break down lanes, do 4 wheel drifts
right in front of your bumper, and generally drive so aggresively that she said we would never take that route again. It got so bad the last time we
tried that route that she bit the towel in two that I asked her to put in her mouth to muffle the screaming.
So if we go that way, we go south from Las Vegas through Parker or Las Vegas to Needles and Blythe , to Yuma and then cross at Tecate and you don't
even have to take three years off of your life.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pescador
we go south from Las Vegas through Parker or Las Vegas to Needles and Blythe , to Yuma and then cross at Tecate and you don't even have to take three
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That's been our preferred route from that part of the country.
95 south to Yuma then west to Tecate' for a relaxing crossing.
No LA, SD or TJ !!!
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LisaR.
If they are going to need FM-Ts, San Ysidro is their best bet, by far. There is a really excellent thread on doing this (I don't know how to link a
thread yet, but you can search for it, or maybe someone would be kind enough to link it?). The whole process takes about 15 minutes, and is much
easier at San Ysidro than anywhere else. |
Have you tried getting your FMT in Tecate' ??
10-30 minutes depending on if you get there with a caravan of folks.
Bank is 50' across the street.
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LisaR.
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I haven't tried Tecate (well, the cerveza, sure). I have gotten FM-Ts in Rosarito and Ensenada, and both were a big pain, with alot of wandering
around after getting vague directions. San Ysidro seemed very easy in comparison, but it's good to know that Tecate is another option! And I
definitely agree with the ease of crossing the border there!
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fishbuck
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Go in through San Ysidro. By far the easiest way to enter in.
I think several posts in here show exactly how to do it including satelite maps.
But I'm sure someone will post it again.
It ain't that hard. Just go in through TJ.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
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If you are wanting to get to La Paz "ASAP" and not interested in driving the Baja...you can always go thru Nogales, AZ. Easy getting the FMT and
great tollways all the way down to San Carlos which does not require a windshield sticker. There you catch the ferry over to Santa Rosalia or what we
did was buy our windshield sticker (which is needed if going past San Carlos) while at Nogales then drove down to Topolobampo/Los Mochas. That ferry
is bigger, nicer and runs 7 days a week. From border to "Topo" was about 550 mile and 10 hours of driving. Of course there is a charge for the ferry
but we figured between the gas, hotels and food it would be a wash.
Again just depends on fast you want to get to La Paz. If you want more info...U2U me.
All that love driving the Baja...I am just throwing out an other suggestion. We were in a hurry to get to CSL. Total time from Ft. Worth TX to CSL
was 72 1/2 hours...saved about 1300 miles of driving.
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saved about 1300 miles of driving.
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and years of storytelling about all of the cool places that don't exist because you didn't see them, i think!
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karenintx
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Hey Woody...didn't say we haven't driven the Baja. I said we were "in a hurry"...hence the reason for taken that route at that time. Now we have
years of storytelling and pics about all the cool places we drove thru, the people we met...like the guy on their Harleys from Kansas we met in a
seaside restaurant and more..
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LisaR.
If they are going to need FM-Ts, San Ysidro is their best bet, by far. There is a really excellent thread on doing this (I don't know how to link a
thread yet, but you can search for it, or maybe someone would be kind enough to link it?). The whole process takes about 15 minutes, and is much
easier at San Ysidro than anywhere else. |
Check my DAY 1 trip report (Baja 709 Great Days), I included photos!
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I must say that karen's post is very interesting in that by going through the border at Nogales, gives you many miles of great highway. Very unlike
highway one on Baja. That being said, I'm not so sure that your stateside drive to get to Nogales from SLC will give you any benefit. Personally, if I
was in SLC. I would be tempted to try it at least one time. The ferry is kinda like taking a cruise in the middle of your trip.
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