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09-27-2018, 06:35 PM | #1 |
Baitless on Baja
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Vista California, Gonzaga, San Quintin, Asuncion, Mag Bay
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ROAD to Gonzaga UPDATE
Today was my first day back from mako-ville. San Diego to Mexicali was good. You now turn
right just before the old border crossing. Travel a couple hundred yards and take a left into the NEW crossing. DO NOT do it at 5:00 thru 5:30 am as the morning train will block the entrance for about a half hour. For FMM's take the tight left coming out of the parking lot. Follow about 1/4 mile and get your FMM. You are now where you used to get them, so from there the roads are the same all the way. Everything from to San Felipe was easy, then on towards Puertocitos. From km 60 all the way to the "Y" at Puertocitos is torn up. They are building around all the vados. That is a 14km stretch, and is graded BUT I blew a tire going donw last week so be careful. The rest of the way to Gonzaga was good. I leave again on MONDAY taking a group down to mako-ville and expect to sea a little rain in the area from "Rosa". Hopefully we are leaving just before the rains. Will post any problem areas on my return to California on the 7th. Coming back yesterday I got thru to the border wall and followed it all the way to the SENTRI lane where we were diverted back thru town with GOOD signage to the NEW border crossing, less then a mile. 3 Sentry lanes open less then 5 minute wait. They also had the regular lanes open at both the old and the new crossing. The New crossing had maby a 10 minute wait, the old crossing was much slower. Hope this helps in these changing times, tight lines amigos.
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09-27-2018, 07:01 PM | #2 |
Brandon
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Hey bob when you say new border are you talking about Mexicali east? Or did they move the Mexicali west border entrance and exit?
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09-27-2018, 08:38 PM | #3 |
Baitless on Baja
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I come down 8 to 98 to 111 crossing. I think that is west and they did move it.
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09-28-2018, 08:08 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for the road report.
There are YouTube videos of the new crossing. |
09-30-2018, 10:16 PM | #5 | |
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Keep us posted.. Thanks amigo.. -Stevie
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10-01-2018, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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Posted on the Baja Facebook group a few hours ago - just north of Gonzaga it said...
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10-01-2018, 06:21 PM | #7 | |
Brandon
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ROAD to Gonzaga UPDATE
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That does NOT look good. Roads if even passable, will be more jacked then they already were. After Rosa, there’s another tropical storm “Sergio” predicted to turn into a cat 2 hurricane. Hopefully that one misses baja. Those roads are definitely nothing to take a chance on. Last edited by YakDout; 10-02-2018 at 07:52 AM. |
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10-01-2018, 06:57 PM | #8 |
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San Felipe - there was a video of people kayaking around a hotel, but I don’t know how to copy it off of Facebook.
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10-01-2018, 09:12 PM | #9 |
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Every time plan to get down for October on the fly, a wrench gets thrown in my plan.. No way Jose that my Civic will make it down after another storm blows through.. Only time will tell
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10-01-2018, 10:16 PM | #10 |
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We decided to take the Federal HWY 1 instead of 5 going south on Thursday. Going to see the Rossman.
On the way back on the 11th, we hope the dirt road south of Gonzaga is dry. If so that is the plan, otherwise we have to forgo San Felipe and eat the motel reservation bill. |
10-01-2018, 11:15 PM | #11 |
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Just saw this on Facebook. Anyone traveling the 5 Be careful!
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10-02-2018, 03:56 AM | #12 |
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While the title says it's between San Felipe and Puertecitos, this one is actually 14 miles north of Bahia Gonzaga. So Just before Makoville. Once it's dry, they will have a detour around that in a matter of hours, but then again, Sergio is looking more and more like it may take similar path.
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10-02-2018, 03:50 AM | #13 | |
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I have a friend headed back to SD from here and has been stuck on the south side of a similar wash out on Mex 1 in the Catavinia area. Drive safe.
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