Featured Baja 2024

Getting ready to ride the Baja peninsula

Feb 29 Guadalajara Mazatlan
Mar 1 Mazatlan Topolobambo - Overnight ferry to La Paz
Mar 2 and 3 rides close to La Paz, , a couple of beaches and visit to Hotel California
March 4 Ride to Loreto
March 5 Ride to Guerrero Negro , boat ride to see whales, perhaps visit the salt fields
March 6 somehwere between G Negro and Ensenada
March 7 Ensenada , visit the wineries
March 8 start the ride back over main land
March 10 arrive back at Gdl

Aprox 4000kms

Preparations:
- ferry reservations and a few hotels along the route
- paperwork for the ferry (insurance and a couple more papers)
- service done
- new tires
- new soft panniers
- many other miscelaneous stuff

10 motorcycles

 

Arrived to Mazatlan

4 guys
r1250rt
tiger 1200 rally
scrambler 1200
Tiger 900

others are on their way today
we left before dawn , still dark,
the bimmer and big tiger fell on a large pothole, the bimmer bent a wheel, 4 hours later we were on our way again, lucky to have found a shop that heated the wheel to put it back correctly

Rest of the way was uneventful and weather in the 20s

let me try to add photos from my phone

 

I think it will work
me
the bent wheel
waiting for the repaired wheel
mounting it back

 

Mazatlan

 

Today we ride to Los Mochis and we'll catch the ferry to to La Paz

 

I'm in Loreto

Once I can get good wifi will upload more photos

 

now in Guerrero Negro

crazy windy day and cold

the scrambler ran out of gas

the tiger 1200 donated enough to get him to the gas station

I nearly ran out of gas

the sea and beaches are incredibly beautiful

and food, OMG, I will have to be on a diet for some time


all is part of the adventure

 

We made it to Ensenada, and all the way to the north, enough to see the wall of the USA border

We're starting the drive back home, there will be a couple of 700+ km rides

 

a quick couple of images

 

a couple more

 

I'm back home, will need a few days to rest !
Waiting for the ferry
Seafood before the ferry
Bikes tied down at the ferry

 

The logistics at the ferry are impressive, it takes 15 mins to unload and another 15 mns to load, in that time we barely tied the bikes and unloaded what we needed to spend the night

 

Arrived at La Paz, Baja California Sur, right at sunrise
La paz is a free trade zone and we had to make a queue to pass customs along the large rigs

 

Playa Balandra is very close to the dock so we went to see that





and playa el Buho before heading to la Paz for lunch


9 bikes, 4 with 2 passengers, asking everyone to stand for a photo is like herding cats, so I just settle with whoever was close enough