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Pompano
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Asuncion to Vizcaino - Those $#@% POTHOLES!
To make a honest & helpful trip report I am obligated to include information about that nasty piece of pavement on the turnoff to Asuncion and
Bahia Tortuga.
Definetely not a high speed road in certain stretches. There is about a 12 mile stretch of very bad potholes on the paved road from
Vizcaino to the Y-turnoff for Asuncion and Bahia Tortuga.
This stretch of very potholed road is about midway from Vizcaino to that turnoff. NOT a good road for fast travel and NOT for motorhomes at any speed
over 2 mph. Also be on the lookout for a certain skittish cow with the imprint of a Dodge bighorn embelm on his butt.
If you do take your big coach at a faster clip, your Co-Pilot will have a few words with you about broken dishes, fridge door flying open, bra
malfunction, etc.
Baja Road Rule #1 = Keep your Co-Pilot smiling.
Armed with that information, I elected to take my 3/4 truck with heavy-duty suspension...solo and leave the boat behind.
Fathers tell their sons about the lost VW bugs that have disappeared into some of the bigger potholes. Doesn't work though, as the sons still drive
too fast!
I wondered what might have caused all this shattered glass left in a small area on the cratered road?
Well, that's the road such as it is. Remember that old Mama adage...'Bad Roads Make Good People'. Just take your time and things will go smoothly
as possible. Relax...and put a nipple on your Pacifico. 
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." - Fitzhugh Mullan
Hey shari, a good idea might be to issue special award T-shirts & bumper stickers that say, "I survived the Asuncion
Assassin"
[Edited on 4-21-2013 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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BajaBlanca
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Even our road into la bocana is getting some pretty "amazing" potholes. Not a lot just yet, but they are all the nastier because they just pop up
unexpectedly.
When you get to Asuncion, you'll soon relax and realize the potholes are just part of this adventure.
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chuckie
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That is not a "road with potholes" Its "Potholes with some road" I noticed the same glass when we came out, I think it was a headlight glass that
jarred out....The end (Ascuncion) makes the drive worthwhile...
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durrelllrobert
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bra malfunction? 
Bob Durrell
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Udo
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Some of those pot hole should be labeled as crevasses.
Udo
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durrelllrobert
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I think they are still installing them
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
Even our road into la bocana is getting some pretty "amazing" potholes. Not a lot just yet, but they are all the nastier because they just pop up
unexpectedly.
When you get to Asuncion, you'll soon relax and realize the potholes are just part of this adventure. |
[Edited on 4-19-2013 by BajaNomad]
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absinvestor
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Hopefully they will do something about the road. We went there in 2011 in a motorhome towing a car. We vowed to not go back until the road is
improved. To us it is not worth the unpleasant drive and beating up a motorhome.
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Pompano
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Some Pothole Humor
OPEN SEASON IN ASUNION!
(translated from Spanish to English...honest)
A truck driver from out of town goes into the local grill and sits down for lunch. In walks this guy carrying a briefcase and wearing a polyester suit
and a bow tie. The cook comes out from the kitchen, pulls out a gun and shoots the guy without a word.
The trucker jumps back and screams, "Whatcha do that for!?" The cook replied, "You must not be from around here. It's open season on lawyers." The
trucker smiles and eats his lunch.
After he finishes his lunch, the trucker gets in his rig. As he's driving away, he sees a huge pothole in the middle of the street and gets an idea.
The tractor hits the pothole, turns on its side and slides into a telephone pole.
All of the sudden, the truck is surrounded by men in cheap polyester suits and bow ties sticking business cards through the broken windshield. The
trucker pulls his gun out of the glove box and starts shooting lawyers as fast as he can.
As the trucker pauses to reload, a police officer slaps the cuffs on him and says, "That will be enough of that."
"But officer," the trucker pleads, "I thought it was open season on lawyers."
"Well, sure it is boy, but you can't bait them!"
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Pompano
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Scenes NOT from the Asuncion Assassin
Changing climate on the Asuncion Road? NOT!
"Snow getting deeper, bison drawing closer, fear Navigator drinks."
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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DianaT
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Thanks Roger for the road report --- we had been hoping that work had resumed--- it has been going to be repaired soon for a very long time now.  Your pictures are great! Not pulling a trailer or driving a motorhome was
very wise.
Just a marker --- driving out from Vizcaino the new road is great. Watch for where the last farm field is and then start being very careful. And
after some really bad stretches, the road is good and one is apt to think the worst is over and it is not over until you are a few miles from the turn
off to Bahia Asuncion.
Used with permission of the local artist --- or actually the permission of his father.
The locals swear a lot about the road!
[Edited on 4-19-2013 by DianaT]
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Hook
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Nothing worse than a formerly paved road in Mexico. Give me dirt every time.
What happened.............did Asuncion vote PAN in the last prez election?
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Bajame
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Last time I was on that road it ruin my tire but was able to get to the tire store before it went completely flat. The road to Santa Martha has loosed
my bumper, broke the mirror from bouncing and it looks like things are missing from underneath. My memory goes back to my sons remark, (Mom take care
of the car) Uh Yeah, It now has bandages all over it. Oh Well, That how things are in Paradise!
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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acadist
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My F150 had a permanent 'knock' from that road, finally admitted to the wife what it was fromand I haven't had the truck for a year
Dave
I moved to CO and they made me buy a little rod to make it feel like a real fish
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woody with a view
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we hit a hole so hard last december that i thought i blew a tire. i actually stopped and got out to look.
happy to report that TOYOTA came thru with flying colors and nothing worse than a sore ego......
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vgabndo
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In March, the bus driver christened that road Avenida de las Albercas.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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I had a Chinese Coolie come out of on of those holes and offer me a Pacifico. I insisted on unfiltered Sake. He would have none of it and vanished in
a swirl of sand which mounded over half the road. When I awoke I found my jaw was broken and a molar or two were jarred loose from clenching my teeth.
Must have hit a pot hole. That is a very nasty road. Good thing the destination is worth it.
Iflyfish
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durrelllrobert
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I've been under a false impression most of my life
I was always told that the term pot hole originated with the westward bound wagon trains that were always accompanied by a chuck wagon. The cook used
to always hang his pots and pans in the wagon and when it hit a hole in the trail one or more usually fell off to which he would exclaim "well, that
was a one pot hole (or a 3 pot hole, etc.)
Well That's not correct:
Word Origin & History
pothole also pot-hole, 1826, originally a geological feature in glaciers and gravel beds, from M.E. pot in sense of "a deep hole for a mine, or from
peat-digging" (late 14c., sense now generally obsolete, but preserved in Scotland and northern England dialect); perhaps ultimately related to
pot (1) on notion of "deep, cylindrical shape." Applied to holes in a road from 1909.
Bob Durrell
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J.P.
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Pot Holes
We call holes like that "VOLKSWAGEN TRAPS"
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Udo
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The new suspension on the FJ handles the pot holes OK at 60 MPH. Nothing has broken yet.
Udo
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LancairDriver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The new suspension on the FJ handles the pot holes OK at 60 MPH. Nothing has broken yet. |
Next trip down hang a video camera underneath showing the FJ suspension working in real and slow motion.I bet Toyota would love to have that in their
commercials.:lol Be sure to fasten it very securely)
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