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Author: Subject: San Jose de Magdalena, Rancho San Sebastian, Rancho Uņa de Gato
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[*] posted on 3-11-2010 at 12:23 PM
San Jose de Magdalena, Rancho San Sebastian, Rancho Uņa de Gato


Yesterday, March 10, 2010 two jeeps went out from Hwy 1 to make a loop tour. First stop was Elan's garlic farm where we watched Elan (sic) braid us up 4 garlands of garlic right then and there. Beautiful large heads, about 24 of them and only 50 pesos each garland. Had fun looking at the 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 (390HP) too.
Next, we made the right turn to take us out over a high hill to Rancho San Sebastian. This was the best stretch of road we had all day. (It may be possible to make the loop around to the north through Las Mariolas, but my info and feeling are that it would be very rough at best.) Following the signs to Rancho San Sebastian we found a lot of people congregating for treatment by the Mulege professionals who came out to the area for the day. We bought some cheese, left some toys and candy and left them to it. The driveway to the left goes out to the road we were on a little farther to the west. It was noon so we stopped for lunch.
If we weren't going to do more than that, we would have driven to the end of the road to see more ranchos and great scenery, but we turned around retracing the 10 miles back to the main road and turned right towards Guadaloupe. At Km. 14 we turned left hoping to follow a road to Rancho Uņa de Gato. At the green crate in the tree we should have turned left, but didn't. Once we got our bearings we came back and did. The "road" out here is just a track that sees a lot more cattle traffic than vehicle traffic. This 13 km of track from the Guadalupe road to Rancho Uņa de Gato is only fun if you like getting lost in the desert. The valley is broad and rocky, just the prickly poppies to cheer us up. At last we found the big rancho (1 km west of the Palo Verde-San Borjitas Rd) with just an older gentleman sitting out back. Very pleasant man. Then we turned right (south) and soon found (left turn) the cutover to the Palo Verde-San Borjitas road. At times the road improved, but all those river rock crossings can't be helped. There is still water in places and some nice pools. All the KM markers have disappeared until KM3. Oh, and the big ranch with all the goats and horses (near KM7) seemed empty, but not abandoned. We reached the highway before 4pm and decided to not take this road ever again.
We had a vey enjoyable morning and survived the afternoon. Hot showers helped remove the dust and restore our spirits. Hmmm, what to do with all this garlic and cheese...
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