Baja
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Part Eighteen: Baja California Sur – End of the Desert
3rd January (Loreto – Ciudad Insurgente) (121km) The road has turned inland toward the spine of the Baja peninsula climbing through a winding mountain pass (refer photo) and then back onto the long flat desert track for some more km churning. The climb of the morning (from the coast up to 430 metres) left me…
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Part Seventeen: Baja California Sur
29th December (Guerrera Negro – San Ignacio) (145km) Well, it finally happened. Your much set-upon correspondent finally fell off his bike today. I can’t for the life of me remember the last time I fell off a touring bike but this afternoon I went the proverbial ‘gutser down the hill’ in trying to avoid a…
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Part Sixteen: Mid Baja California – Santa is Dead/ Santa Lives
23rd December (San Quintin – El Rosaria) (62km) The traffic has become a lot lighter now and the ride 50km down the coast is a breeze. The road then cuts inland to El Rosario. Lobster Burritos at Mama Rosalita’s Restaurant (“world famous” reportedly) are not too bad at all. Have taken a motel room with…
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Part Fifteen: Baja California – North
20th December (Rosalita – Ensenada) (80km) Ensenada caters for cruise ships that pull into port with all manner of cheap souvenirs and strip clubs a plenty. It marks the end of my first day’s riding in Mexico and despite the road shoulder disappearing in places and the traffic being more unpredictable and careless…
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Part Fourteen: Northern Baja California – Mexico
“When it’s fiesta time in Guadalajara, Then I long to be back once again in Old Mexico. Where we lived for today, Never giving a thought to tomara. To the strumming of guitars, In a hundred grubby bars I would whisper “Te amo.” (Tom Leherer) The above is presented here in homage to that masterful…