Baja Peninsula, Mexico

March 2024

An Eventful Trip

Our journey into Baja began in early February when friends invited us to join them as they explored Baja as a possible location for future winter escapes from the cold. Since both of our friends spoke fluent Spanish, we thought it was the perfect time to travel in this unique location.

The very first takeaway after entering Baja was that the roads, even the so-called highways, were for the most part, very narrow. In fact, many times they were so narrow that the tires of the truck were touching the yellow line in the middle of the road, and the white line on the edge of the road, BOTH at the same time. This made passing oncoming semi-trucks very, very dangerous. So much so that, despite always trying to creep to the very outside edge of the pavement, we impacted another truck when traveling at 80 kilometres per hour. Fortunately, the high speed impact only destroyed the driver door mirror. Needless to say, the semi-truck driver never stopped. We were able to strap the mirror back together with some zip ties, and although much of the mirror was shattered, there were still large enough sections the it still functioned as a side view mirror. Later in the journey, while queuing for a fuel station, we learned that we were not alone in this unfortunate experience. A Class A motorhome also at the fuel station had his mirror missing, along with a shattered driver side window from the impact to the mirror. We only lost the mirror, with no other damage to the truck. All of a sudden we didn’t feel so unlucky anymore.