Tag Archives: Baja California

For a town with a pop­u­la­tion of 200,000 it was a incred­i­bly sleepy. It had such a lovely feel to it that I imme­di­ately booked into the Pen­sión Cal­i­for­nia where I spent much of the next 3 days in its spa­cious & cool court­yard with San­drine, a French Cana­dian, who’d just crewed a yacht from San Diego to […]

Hav­ing only cycled 100km in the last 5 days we were ready to cycle the last 550km through the desert: firstly, along the coast before High­way 1 turned inland, headed down the mid­dle of the penin­sula again and, finally, cut back to the Sea of Cortez, the city of La Paz and the 12-hour ferry […]

As we were hav­ing a snack by the side of the road about 20km north of Mulegé a white vehi­cle pulled over with ‘Raven Research West’ writ­ten on the side. Out jumped Gary Clow­ers, a spe­cial­ist in birds, espe­cially ravens, hence his local nick­name ‘el cuervo’, the raven. Hail­ing from Ore­gon, Gary had cycled through […]

Hav­ing com­pleted about 2/3 of the jour­ney from Tijuana to La Paz, I’d arranged a COUCHSURFING home­s­tay with Bill Enos, 61km south of Santa Ros­alía, in Mulegé – The Great Sand­bar of the White Mouth, as Mulegéwas known to the orig­i­nal Cochimi Indi­ans. I’d con­tacted him when I was rid­ing alone but he was happy to have […]

The crazy trip con­tin­ued again the next day as the four of us headed off into the desert. Not long out of town, we hit our first ‘vado’ or ford. Right along High­way 1, instead of build­ing bridges to con­nect cer­tain sec­tions, we had to descend right down to the dry riverbeds. This was often […]

Lock­ing up Gerardo’s place, I dropped the key off around the cor­ner at Señora Dolores’ place, the lady who looks after his house. I noticed a sticker in her win­dow ask­ing that no junk mail be put through her let­ter box, but not just leaflets for the local taco stand or beauty salon. The sticker […]

Brian decided to stay at home, while Matt and I went to find a bus that would take us back into town. He needed a new brake pad so I agreed to accom­pany him, as I had the address of the bike shop. As we walked around it was easy to see how much rain […]

Route Map View Cycling Baja Cal­i­for­nia, Mex­ico in a larger map Key By bike By plane By ferry By train By bus   “There’s a guy here on a bicy­cle,” I heard the man in the car next to me shout into his mobile phone as I fol­lowed the line of cars with a mix­ture of […]