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DianaT
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Pothole picture - Tortugas Road
Just one picture of one of the bad areas of the road from Vizcaino to the BA turn-off. This one was fairly close to the BA turn-off.
If you are going out there, after the last Los Pinos field, open your eyes. :-) The worst areas really do sneak up on you.
[Edited on 7-2-2012 by DianaT]
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BajaBlanca
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looks very bad 
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captkw
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potholes
Hola,looks like the road in "77" and I do miss the old karasine road worker lights...AHH the old baja..sniff.sniff
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desertcpl
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Yikes
thats not good at all, all most as bad as this
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woody with a view
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DT that's not a pothole it's a moonscape.....
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They are installing new ones in Ensenada. Slows everyone down:
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
They are installing new ones in Ensenada. Slows everyone down:
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Great idea!!!
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captkw
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pot holes
now that s funny !! where can I buy some of those?? K&T 
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
They are installing new ones in Ensenada. Slows everyone down:
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Great idea... I'd rather have these instead of the real 'topes'...
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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rts551
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Maybe when they finish with our roads they will move up North.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
Maybe when they finish with our roads they will move up North. |
Oh I hope so!
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DianaT
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Any word from down south as to if there is going to be some repair done on the Tortugas Highway before the BA Fiesta?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
Hola,looks like the road in "77" and I do miss the old karasine road worker lights...AHH the old baja..sniff.sniff |
Yes, and there were miles of "road" that looked like that back then. To me it was worse than the washboard of before "pavement", but it sure kept you
on your toes, and not many serious accidents back then-------excess speed was out of the question except for the crazy racers.
barry
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One can easily find "The Old Baja" just by driving a mile or two off the pavement. Warm beer, risky fresh food, tepid mineral laden water. No lights
at night. No food until someone goes for leña, frijoles, tortillas, chilies y sal. It's all there, and waiting for whomever is nostalgic for "The Good
Old Days".
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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We live out La Bufadora Rd. I dont know which is more dangerous The pot holes or the people dodging the ones in their lane.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
Any word from down south as to if there is going to be some repair done on the Tortugas Highway before the BA Fiesta? |
not yet. but our road is sure nice. They paved the rest of the street in town as well. They are talking about paving along the coast. What does
your Delegada have to say.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
Just one picture of one of the bad areas of the road from Vizcaino to the BA turn-off. This one was fairly close to the BA turn-off.
If you are going out there, after the last Los Pinos field, open your eyes. :-) The worst areas really do sneak up on you.
[Edited on 7-2-2012 by DianaT] |
Now, I can see why you requested information about Jeep Wranglers.
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No surprise why that road failed
Too many roads in Baja have been one inch of a/c over native graded soil. (a/c stands for asphaltic concrete, by the way)
I was surprised a couple years back to watch them working on added lanes between Ensenada and Guadalupe. They were down a couple feet, which would
them be filled with base rock (I hope) and then a decent lift of a/c.
In California that would likely be 2.5 feet of base and two lifts of a/c, at least 1.5 inches per lift.
Out on 99 they are going down 3 feet.
The Baja road crew might just as well get some spray cans and paint that dirt black and forget about it. And, as pointed out, a ragged paved road is
more dangerous than a regular dirt road.
Sad waste of time, effort and money.
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Barry A.
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----speaking of "a waste of money"--------I have long contended that in a Desert environment, many of the expensive concrete bridges over gully's
(that often wash out) could just as well be crossed with Texas Crossings. Let the occasional flood water wash on by----it will all be gone within
hours.
Much of highway 395 crossing the Mojave had Texas Crossings back before the '50's-------it worked fine as I recall.
Barry
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waco's and tope's
Hola,the day that I dont hit a tope that was "Hidden" or The rare surprise waco that I could not miss are not going to happen in my lifetime...but
thats part of baja !!!! K&T
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