Date:         Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:58:34 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Baja Whale trip, success! Video!
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
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We saw a stream of large

> snow bird rigs heading north as we went south, most with Canadian
> plates.
>
>> Is it getting busy now? 1988 there was so few people there everywhere...I
>> remember driving 5 miles off the highway toward the Sea of Cortez near
>> Bajia de Los Angeles (LA Bay) and we had to drive past these Folks in their
>> motor home, so we stopped to ask them if they'd mind, turns out they were
>> from 50 miles from home base here in Gibsons and of course they knew my
>> Uncle!
>> Sounds like a worthy winter venture for the near future...
>>
>> ****************
>>
>>
    Those commercial RV trips, 'careful'  people sign up, get in line
behind a Caravan Leader and do the Baja Trip as defined by the company
who's organized the Caravan.....Those groups are often troublesome.   When
encountered, they can cause frustration amongst all the other traffic on
the Baja 1 highway as everyone tries to get around multiple motorhomes.
If you should need fuel and your logistics demand you to share a station
with one of those caravans...it will take some time and they sometimes suck
up all the gas the station has.

  You may encounter irritated or impatient commercial traffic around or
interspersed with these RV Caravans...sometimes the locals drive pretty
agro..take chances that you might not expect..  Driving in Baja is
fun...but perhaps a bit more dangerous than in the United States...If you
go with an "Agenda" a time schedule, you should expect to deviate from it.
Don't be upset or expect things to be totally 'predictable'....it IS
different.