Wandering Baja, January 2022

[Occidental]

We crossed into Baja on New Years day and went south until we ran out of roads, then turned around and went north again. This was our first trip to Baja and Mexico. We didn't go in with much of an agenda, other than to check it out and, if we decided to come back, be more informed about sights to see the next time. What a great trip, we only wish we had at least double the two weeks we had. Great beach camping, superb food and friendly people were the themes.

Part one of our trip is now posted, along with a video (embedded in the post), which mostly just covers our trip prep and planning and the border crossing. We'll get into the rest of the actual trip in the following posts when I get to them in the coming weeks. It's taken me a bit to get through an initial review of all the photos and video, but hopefully there won't be too much of a delay in getting the rest of the parts posted.

Part 1 - Border Crossing: https://www.occidentalist.org/baja-2022-part-1-the-border-crossing/
Par 2 - Heading South: https://www.occidentalist.org/baja-2022-part-2-southbound/
Part 3 - The Adventure Continues: https://www.occidentalist.org/baja-2022-part-3-the-adventure-continues/
Part 4 - North to the Border: https://www.occidentalist.org/baja-2022-part-4-north-to-the-border/

 

[fish more]

Can't wait to see part two

 

[ski3pin]

Can't wait to see part two

Us too, us too!

 

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Count me in!

 

[Vic Harder]

awesome!

 

[craig333]

Love it. I keep reading reports from people who have been there dozens of times. I really like seeing a first timers report. Helps encourage me to go.

 

[goinoregon]

some friends of ours are on a multi month trip right now. they started on the east side, and we got lots of dolphin videos, and beaches. they are now over on west side watching grey whales... am jealous. once they are back, i will get all the deets, and make plans. !!!

 

[JWL]

Thanks! I need all the education I can get.

 

[Lighthawk]

Very informative TR! When I lived in San Diego we used the Tecate border crossing quite often.

 

[Occidental]

At long last I have posted part 2. The weather has been so nice here in Bend that we've been out the past 2 weekends, which has slowed down these reports a bit. Part 2 gets into the actual trip report (vs. part 1 which focused on trip prep and border crossing). We cover a lot of miles as we head south down the peninsula in this report. Starting out just south of Ensenada we end the post on the Bahia Conception. There are some really cool cacti to be seen, along with the boojum trees, and a couple nice beach camps.

Thanks for following along!

Part 2: https://www.occidentalist.org/baja-2022-part-2-southbound/

You can also directly access the video of this segment here, which is also embedded in the post: https://youtu.be/YpShE8CfHSs

 

[Wango]

Sweet, too bad I have to wait until next winter. Loving the trip report, thanks.
w

 

[Wango]

subbed your youtube channel also.

 

[Occidental]

Sweet, too bad I have to wait until next winter. Loving the trip report, thanks.
w

Well, at least you have something on the calendar! I've found that is the big step to determine how much you get out - not letting things take over your calendar that you really don't want to do. We had to delay about 14 months, but so glad we got to go. Now we need to get another trip down there planned!

 

[goinoregon]

thx, very informative.
will hopefully be down there next year.

 

[fish more]

After hearing the music on your video, made me go and have a couple of shots of "Tequila" ! Nice report

 

[Wango]

Don't know why i didn't mention this, but i am flying to Cabo tomorrow. Tequilla and the sea for a week.
Would prefer to drive again though.
Trying to get a few folks to join us (loosely) next time.

 

[Lighthawk]

I can't say how much this brings back memories and dreams of future travels.
I never made it over to Bahia de Los Angeles, and hope to rectify that once I cross into retirement.

 

[goinoregon]

Don't know why i didn't mention this, but i am flying to Cabo tomorrow. Tequilla and the sea for a week.
Would prefer to drive again though.
Trying to get a few folks to join us (loosely) next time.

when is the general timing of next baja camping trip?

 

[Occidental]

After hearing the music on your video, made me go and have a couple of shots of "Tequila" ! Nice report

I can't say how much this brings back memories and dreams of future travels.
I never made it over to Bahia de Los Angeles, and hope to rectify that once I cross into retirement.

Well at least the report is inspiring - inspiring to drink tequila - I suppose it could be worse - I thought the music was location appropriate anyway.

Glad it makes you think of future travels Lighthawk. I think we were already thinking of another trip before we turned north for home!

 

[JWL]

Nice job, thanks again!
Great music as well. Maybe one of these days…