The Adventures of Familia Bajaboy

Bahia San Rafael/Bahia Asunsion Thanksgiving Trip 2012 We crossed at the new Chapparel Border crossing in San Ysidro on Saturday, 11/17, about 5am. We were sent to secondary for a quick inspection. I asked the friendly inspector about obtaining and paying for FMT. He said the immigration office and bank were open 24/7. I didn't need a permit this trip so I don't have any first hand info. The drive down was uneventful for the most part. We stopped at Las Pasaditas in El Rosario to get some food to go. While waiting for our meal, Dern popped in to say hello. He was driving north and saw my truck outside. He suggested the road to San Rafael might be rough which was my fear. We had light rain from El Rosario until the turn off to Bahia Los Angeles. We filled up in BoLA and headed out of town. The road started off miserable and got worse as we headed out of town. I had a full truck and drove slowly. Between the recent rains and the Baja 1000, this was ...

We made our annual pilmagrage to Baja for Thanksgiving.  We normally head to Playa San Rafael to camp and then to our place in Bahia Asuncion for the remainder of the week.  This year, we were taking down tile for our recent room addition and decided to flip the trip heading to BA first. I noticed a screw in my tire on Thursday evening.  I was bummed as the tires only had 3k miles on them.  I went by Bob Baker Toyota to see if they would help me out since my truck was less than a month old.  As usual, they took care of me, meeting me half way on the cost of a new tire.  With the unplanned delay, we finally crossed San Ysidro just before 6 pm.  On top of the late start, we had an unbelievable lightening storm which lasted almost until Ensenada.  We had an easy trip down to San Quintin where we had a guaranteed room reservation at Hotel Villa San Quintin arriving about 11pm.. The next day we made our way south.  We picked up some bur...