BAJA!: TO MISION SANTA MARIA MEMORIAL DAY. LOCKERS and A-TRAC only!

Well, the truck is loaded... and I am up too early because I got Baja on the brain! HB Murphy is going to caravan with us to El Rosario... We are going to have a great time and there should be some awesome photos to share... The desert is in bloom I have been told... Baja has the largest and most exotic cactus gardens on earth!

The boojum tree is my favorite!

 

Wow! Boojum!

 

and the photos????

 

They will be up soon...

 

Get them up soon wanna check them out.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRSjAk2qy_U

 

Yeah - My new friend Art needs to use both them pedals while wheeling. He did have a pretty crazy rig and wasn't afraid to use it! The only thing that thing was missing was a Jacuzzi in the rear!

 

Man, what an awesome weekend...

HBMurphy rocks!:







Art and his 4WD motorhome didn't do too bad either!:



Here is Neal Johns in his '03 Tacoma with camper:



LOT'S MORE TO COME!

 

the beer


the food


the landscape


the stickers (Rancho Santa Ynez)


the Toyotas




the motorhome?!!!


the peninsular divide rest stop


the wife and me


the group


the road ahead


a good section of road!


Baja's version of the Rubicon trail


Nice Dodge


Dropping off the mountain


Looking in my mirror


Coming down the Widowmaker








HB Murphy was AWESOME!




In the oasis... bog dead ahead!








My 2010 Taco wants a new off road bumper... now.


Mision Santa Maria de los Angeles (1767-1774)










gnats, what gnats?








The motorhome arrives!


Copycat!

Okay gang that is the trip TO the mission... the EASY part!

Stay tuned for the photos of LEAVING the mission!!!

 

Nice!

 

Yah, it was pretty cool...

I hope you found Baja to not be the 'bandito behind every rock' place so many like to report. You can see that with the right attitude, a smile, and a good Toyota one can have a great time.

I hope you will join us on future trips... there is a LOT of Baja places that are like none anywhere else on earth... and the people, food and beer (except Sol with lime and salt already added) are all great!

Shell Island (south of San Felipe) will be awesome... deep sand 4WD beach driving to an awsome place to camp and just veg-out for a couple days...

El Rosario with the Baja Cactus Motel as base camp is a great hub of off road and geographic adventures... If not for Neal's breakdown, we would have been able to show you the petrified forest, La Bocana beach and La Lobera sea lion crater... all within 5 miles of town... Have a look at the El Rosario area sites:

El Rosario Area

• Missions, Museum, La Bocana, La Lobera

• Cactus Garden and Sauzalito mine ruins

• Petrified Forest & La Bocana Beach

• El Camino Real near Km. 80

• Las Pintas Fossil Grotto

• Los Martires to El Socorro, cactus forests, petroglyphs found!

• Mision San Fernando and petros '05

• Mina de San Fernando (plus mission and petros in '00)

• El Marmol & El Volcan

• Agua Dulce historic spring (plus Baja Cactus Motel)

• Mama Espinoza Museum & Search for Santa Ursula

• To Punta Baja and down the coast road

 

Thanks for sharing the photos. That bog looked pretty crazy! I can't wait to go in the future. I'll have my final passport paper work submitted this coming Saturday.

 

nice photos!!! thanks!

 

AWESOME!! glad everyone had a great time.

thank you for the pictures.

 

Being that I have mostly wheeled with Toyota guys, it was interesting to see such a wide variety of rigs - If it was a TW, TTORA or T*A wheeling trip, we may have had the spare tie rod to get Neil off the trail!

 

More exciting photos are yet to come! Stay tuned my Tacoma friends.... Only HALF the trip pics have been posted!

SEE THEM ALL, HERE: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/tra...-part-1-a.html

 

Looks great David K and company! I look forward to seeing more pictures.

 

Thanks!

I will post the full trip report in parts...

 

MISION SANTA MARIA 2010: An Epic Adventure by David Kier

Memorial Day Weekend 2010 will be one that is firmly ingrained in our memory!

All my photos moved to here: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/tra...-part-1-a.html

 

SEE THE PHOTOS, READ THE DETAILS, HERE: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/tra...-part-1-a.html