Monthly Archives: November 2009

Playa La Gringa and San Francisquito, Baja California Norte

We left Ensenada on the Mex 1 heading south to Bahia de los Angeles (BLA).  BLA is a long drive from Ensenada and our cardinal rule is no night driving so we didn’t really know how far or where we would stop for the night, so we just decided to drive and see how far [...]

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Ensenada and the Baja 1000

After an uneventful border crossing we visited our friends at BajaRack in Ensenada.  A few months ago we attended an event dedicated to like minded vehicle based travelers called Overland Expo.  At the Expo we camped next to the BajaRack exhibit and after our four day stay Sergio, the owner of BajaRack was kind enough [...]

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Goodbye to the States, and Hello to Mexico

It is really weird to think about, but we finally feel like we have begun our trip even though we have been on the road nearly four months and more than 14,000 miles. We’ve had an amazing experience driving around the US and have visited so many beautiful places. We have finally gone south of [...]

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Insurance company drama in Grass Valley, CA.

After reading Luis’ last post, it is probably obvious that the Landcruiser was due for some repairs. The only way for us to afford the repairs to the body damage was to go through our insurance company.  Getting the insurance company to pay for the repairs was a lot like getting money from Ebenezer Scrooge, [...]

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Luis’ misadventures…

Some of you may remember the August 16th post in which Luis recounted his “running out of gas when in reality he had a full tank of gas incident.” Well, this post revolves around a series of similar incidents that have happened/ been caused by Luis… First and foremost is the “near expedition killer”: while [...]

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