30 Nov 2009
Cactus, cactuses or cacti - whichever way you want to describe them, there are a lot of them in Baja.
Mexico is the perfect place for a road-trip, or even better a road trip on a motorbike. Sometimes though you have to make do with what you've got. In our case a cheap Toyota that had seen better days.
Having set off on a road trip in a somewhat less than roadworth car I expected that it would be a trip with numerous stops along the way. I wasn't wrong.
I was however somewhat surprised that we cruised along for almost an hour without a hick-up, managed to stop for lunch and even get going again, still without incident.
Our next stop was on arriving at a scenic look-out point, and was to take a few photos. The going wasn't fast by any means, but somehow we managed to get through the day with nothing more than a few battery problems, and bunked down for the night in a small roadside motel
Photo: Large Cactus in Baja - photo blog of the trip through Baja in the full post!
View over Baja California with Small Cactus in the foreground.
Day 2 started much as day one had - driving slowly, with just a few battery terminal niggles.
By Lunch-time the Cactus were getting bigger.
And a few bends started to appear in the road
Still cruising along by the time it came to re-fill.
First flat: Just as we pulled in to the motel to bunk down for the night. Nothing that a can of "fix a flat" can't handle.
Day 3: At least until the next morning... once again however, the problem was in town, and fixed in an hour or so by a random local who just happened to have a spare tire, and a back windscreen to throw into the deal for $50 with a bit of haggling.
Tire 2 lasted (almost) all the way to the next town... and "fix-a-flat" got us the rest of the way there.
Santa Rosalia - a cute little town on the coast of Baja - and a good place to end a road trip in a car full of character. The rest of the way to La Paz was by bus!
