RE: Weekend Warrior, the good memories
Great Memories... as they say, THESE ARE the good old times!
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Christmas at Glamis in '05 with the SLC we'd had since '01
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Nov '07 with the 'new' CR, bought in '06
And Many more down the road!
RE: Baja - San Felipe
drtkrw...
Go have a good time... Most of Pete's Camp was bought by Eldorado Ranch last year, they plan to build a small Par 3 golf course there. The bar/beach area is on it's own still. Check out what Eldorado has done, we own one of the condos on the golf course. When we bought there originally (2003), there were a lot of promises... there was just desert, and a scaffold. They said there'd be this really nice golf course. I though "Right... in this is Mexican Desert..." Well, it's now there, and its pretty nice.
Mexicali has changed too in the last couple years. Where the Bull Ring was, is now a Starbucks and Carls Jr.
I read on another board, someone complaining they got caught urinating in a public place by a San Felipe cop... he felt it was heavy handed... Come on...
Key is, travel during the day, get insurance, if pulled over by police and you feel its unjust, ask to go to the police station. Lock your stuff down, keep valuables out of sight. Just as you would anywhere else...
Most important! Have a good time!
RE: Baja - San Felipe
Wow... didn't expect a Flame war over a little town in Mexico...
San Felipe has a small population of working class folk and retirees... I'd say 99.9% of the population are law abiding folks, no different than any small town in the world. We have spent a lot of time down there. We know quite a few locals and retirees. Because of it's remote location, far from any direct path (drug runners) to the U.S. so IMHO its a safe little town.
Now the West Coast of Baja... thats a different story...
Like I've told other folks, you don't come to California to hang out on Skid Row, same with Mexico.
RE: Baja - San Felipe
We've owned property in San Felipe since 2003... So, we're down there a lot. San Felipe is a neat area, You get it all there. Sea, Desert, Mountains... Cheap RV parks to a Golf Resort... "They" say San Felipe is kind of a Gated community, there is a military check point to the North and South of town (checking for guns/drugs) on the only highway in. Travel during the day, there is about 100 miles of NOTHING... a break down/flat tire would be a little sketchy at night (narrow roads). There is a AAA type of service to help stranded motorist. We have some friends that broke down, after leaving S.F. after dark, they were there waiting 4 hours, before help got to 'em. There is more urban myth/I heard from my friends sisters boyfriend about this guy that something awful happened...
RE: Doheny state beach - Where to park after...
I live about a mile from Doheny. What I've seen is people are parking their RV over night in the Stats/Big5 parking lot, or Costco/Staples lots for the night (but not staying in them), to move early the next morning back to the beach. I'm sure the City Counsel types get bent out of shape over it...
RE: Marysvale, Utah
WOW, Sounds like Marysvale is gonna be a busy place this summer... After reading about it last year on the boards here, my wife and I decided to book a week at Lizzie and Charlies too. We'll be there the first week of July...
I posted a map overlay of the RV park into Google Earth. I was curious how the park is laid out.
Map overlay for Google Earth
Works best in Google Earth
RE: New Pemex Station in San Felipe north, OPEN? FUEL AVAILABLE?
I heard that it opened in January, We will be down there in a couple weeks to check it out. According to the San Felipe web site...
North Beaches
The Pemex gasoline station opposite Playa de Oro is now open and the four-lane highway is well underway to El Dorado. Be very careful driving into town as the diversions of traffic from one side of the highway to the other around construction areas can be very sudden and bumpy.
