November 11th - San Jose Cabos - Los Mochis
We left the Marquis hotel with a great deal of sadness, but the tour has to move on.
A drive along the south-east coast of Baja took us past wonderful seaside villas overlooking pristine beaches. A beautiful unspoilt coastline. For the second time our Brantz, the computer trip odometer, was giving false readings making navigation very difficult. 85 kms of gravel road brought us back to Highway 1, the road leading to La Paz.
La Paz is a town of 150,000 inhabitants. There is a lovely bay to the north of the town and some 20 kms along the coast from La Paz is the ferry terminal of Pichilingue. The name comes from the original native indians who called it 'pirates place'.
We arrived at the ferry terminal at 1pm, as all the other cars turned up. All that is, except for Loius Bustello, who had suffered a puncture and couldn't change the wheel as the locking wheel nut could not be removed. A temporary tyre repair by Jingers enabled him to limp to the ferry with 30 minutes to spare.
A drive along the south-east coast of Baja took us past wonderful seaside villas overlooking pristine beaches. A beautiful unspoilt coastline. For the second time our Brantz, the computer trip odometer, was giving false readings making navigation very difficult. 85 kms of gravel road brought us back to Highway 1, the road leading to La Paz.
La Paz is a town of 150,000 inhabitants. There is a lovely bay to the north of the town and some 20 kms along the coast from La Paz is the ferry terminal of Pichilingue. The name comes from the original native indians who called it 'pirates place'.
We arrived at the ferry terminal at 1pm, as all the other cars turned up. All that is, except for Loius Bustello, who had suffered a puncture and couldn't change the wheel as the locking wheel nut could not be removed. A temporary tyre repair by Jingers enabled him to limp to the ferry with 30 minutes to spare.
Our cars loaded on the ferry from la Paz to Los Mochis
The ferry took 6 hours and we crossed in a flat calm sea, arriving in Topolobampo at 9.15pm. The drive, in the dark, to our hotel in Los Mochis took us 30 minutes, and was not helped by the continuing problems with the Brantz.
Tomorrow we head up into the Sierra Madre mountains, made famous in the Humphrey Bogart film, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Our destination is Copper Canyon, one of the highlights of the tour.
posted by Tim at 10:12 AM
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