Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:21:42 -0700
Reply-To: Mark Belanger <mbelanger@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mark Belanger <mbelanger@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Baja travel with 5 Vanagons
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The time period I experienced was the late 80s, but I'm glad you folks made
it through hassle-free.
-MB
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:20 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> None of us got pulled over...I think the law authorities have really
> cleaned up their act since the 60's and 70's, tourism is really important
> to them. There are however, several military checkpoints you pass through;
> they ask a few questions (like where are you coming from and where are you
> going) and we tried our best to give answers....lots of bewildered shoulder
> shrugging most of the time. Every so often they will want to open the back
> hatch or the slider and look around a little and check out what is in your
> ice chest; these guys are there for your protection mostly. I'm glad they
> are there, it all works out pretty well for everybody.
>
> Rich
>
> San Diego
>
>
> On Friday, March 27, 2020, 1:49:15 PM PDT, Mark Belanger <
> mbelanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Nice pics, Rich!
>
> How many times did you get pulled over? I grew up in SD and in High School
> we used to drive down to Ensenada and have beers and lunch over looking the
> ocean at a place called Hotel La Fonda. We'd keep our cash in our socks
> with just five or six bucks in our wallets, so when we were
> inevitably pulled over, we could ask, "Is there any way we could pay our
> fine now?" and let them clean out our wallets.
>
> Good times...
>
>
> -MB
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Trying again to send this after some coaching from Vanagon List
> > folks....here is the Dropbox link, but I am pretty dubious that it will
> > work, that ListServ thing is adept at stripping everything; but worth
> > another try. I've even asked the moderators for help, but it might just
> be
> > impossible....that whole AC isn't DC thing, or something along those
> lines.
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d3bm94hi3zzsv63/AAAozjLP8gBha3rFJlHvvlkga?dl=0
>
> >
>
>
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