Part 1
This trip report covers the 2 weeks that myself and 3 other Jeeps traveled across the border and down to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja and back the last week of September and first week of October 2012.
We had planned to follow part of the Baja 1000 track down the Sea of Cortez side to La Paz, & Cabo and back up the Pacific Coast side, eat fish tacos, drink lots of Margaritas, and just have a great time and we did just that!
We did not experience any of the negative fearful stuff that you hear about Mexico. We found the Mexican people, the Military Check Point Soldiers and store/restaurant owners to be very polite, honest people that were very happy that we had decided to vacation in Baja.
I left my house in Sparks early Saturday morning Sept 22, 2012 for my overnight stop just below Las Vegas, NV.
I had wanted to take my '98 Jeep ZJ that Samco is building for just such a trip as running part of the Baja 1000 but it was still too far from completion.
I was driving my '96 Jeep ZJ and got just South of Hawthorne, NV when the motor began to hesitate.
It felt like a bad fuel pump and with 210k on the original pump, I was not surprised. I made it to Las Vegas but just barely as it wouldn't go faster than about 35 mph.
I was stuck in Vegas (not a bad place to be stuck in) until Monday morning when I could get the fuel pump replaced and this put me a day behind the other 3 Jeeps, a TJ, & 2 JKs that crossed the border on Sunday at Mexicali.
I was able to catch them at San Felipe for lunch on Tuesday:

We soon ran out of pavement as we continued South to our overnight camp spot on the beach at Gonzaga Bay:

This trip report covers the 2 weeks that myself and 3 other Jeeps traveled across the border and down to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja and back the last week of September and first week of October 2012.
We had planned to follow part of the Baja 1000 track down the Sea of Cortez side to La Paz, & Cabo and back up the Pacific Coast side, eat fish tacos, drink lots of Margaritas, and just have a great time and we did just that!
We did not experience any of the negative fearful stuff that you hear about Mexico. We found the Mexican people, the Military Check Point Soldiers and store/restaurant owners to be very polite, honest people that were very happy that we had decided to vacation in Baja.
I left my house in Sparks early Saturday morning Sept 22, 2012 for my overnight stop just below Las Vegas, NV.
I had wanted to take my '98 Jeep ZJ that Samco is building for just such a trip as running part of the Baja 1000 but it was still too far from completion.
I was driving my '96 Jeep ZJ and got just South of Hawthorne, NV when the motor began to hesitate.
It felt like a bad fuel pump and with 210k on the original pump, I was not surprised. I made it to Las Vegas but just barely as it wouldn't go faster than about 35 mph.
I was stuck in Vegas (not a bad place to be stuck in) until Monday morning when I could get the fuel pump replaced and this put me a day behind the other 3 Jeeps, a TJ, & 2 JKs that crossed the border on Sunday at Mexicali.
I was able to catch them at San Felipe for lunch on Tuesday:

We soon ran out of pavement as we continued South to our overnight camp spot on the beach at Gonzaga Bay:

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