Blogs from Baja California, Mexico, North America - page 21

Well we woke up in Rosalito, headed BACK to Tijuanna, somehow navigated the city and started east. Arrived in Tecate, which is actually a really awesome town. They make the Tecate beer there, it's a small border town that I would take in the future over Tijuanna. We gout our VISA's sorted out there because we were a bit flustered the night before crossing into Tijuanna at sunset. Anyhow, felt good to get our visas sorted out and all those formalities, so we busted it to MexiCali afterwards. Lots of desert driving, it's hot, straight, cactus everywhere, dust, non toll road so it's just one lane each way, some creative passing, lots of destroyed cars everywhere from breakdowns etc. Felt good to get the roof off the samurai and we just kicked it with tunes and ... read more

The next day we had planned a day trip to Tijuana! But spent the morning finding a 'Payless' shoe store for Mick (he wanted a pair of boots). We drove all morning with the top down getting hot and a bit sunburnt. The one thing we really dont like in the USA is the maps and street signs! All the maps we had only showed 20% of the roads, and instead of road signs on the freeway indicating a town turnoff, they would only indicate a streetname turnoff (of which only 20% were on our map); so we would never know what town we were in just that we had just passed 42nd street??? Very annoying - and if any of you watch our holiday video please excuse the fuity language! Mexico was an experience! We ... read more

Hello Everyone- It has been some time since I have talked with most of you, so I thought that I would give you a little update about where I have been and what I have been up to. I have been unemployed for 4 weeks thus far and have been enjoying it very much, after moving that is. I was going to start my West Coast tour on Labor Day weekend, but I seriously thought about the traffic and instead went and spent the weekend at an undisclosed location…it was a great time! So I started on the drive after Labor Day weekend and went down the Oregon Coast. Along the way I made a stop at Cannon Beach to take some pictures of Haystack Rock, then I cruised to Tillamook Cheese Factory in just enough ... read more

Road tripping with my three favorite allies... I started something with a late night text message to my homegirl Laine after I had a few watermelon martinis with Daniel at Taps in Brea. No one except Miss Laine and Lisa J would drive to Mexico on the fly, and Dan couldn't resist making the trip with us. L&L transport arrived at 11am the following morning to pick us up. Here we go Mexico and Dog House Radio! Persistant niñas tapped their tanned hands on our shirt tails, desperate to make a buck for their families selling vibrant sunflowers and red roses, engraved leather hair bows and colorful hand-woven bracelets. This was my first trip to a third world country, where peddlers were peddling to support their families, unlike the American homeless peddling for booze at a ... read more

The Adventures of the White Duck* (*Also known as Tim’s flying truck) We started at night from old SLO Victoria, Tim and Rico. He headed off down Highway One, With walky-talkies (and some puns). Through darkness and rain we did go Until we reached San Diego. Two days were spent at Junior’s place Making the trucks super-fast-ace. Others came - it was time to go The time to leave for Mexico (Lettuce, Gerkin, Beet and Mayo)* As we drove down it was pouring, But the white Duck she was soaring. We camped at a spot by the coast (But slept inside where it was toast). The sun did rise for a beaut day, The flock was stoked “Yip-pee-kay-yay!” We headed off down dirt roads, Speeding and weaving through the nodes. The sky was blue and it ... read more