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1/2 days driving, how much sightseeing?.. Posted by Mike Lynch [Email]  (#81) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Mike Lynch) on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:45:34
In Reply to: Sounds fun, can you do it in half a day or so, steve, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:24:00 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The safety of driving in Baja is debatable. I don't have a problem with it. I like the challenge, especially in town in the Tijuana roundabouts, very European, but the toll road to Ensenada is very unchallenging and freeway like, no problems at all. I take my cars and motorcycles down to Ensenada and beyond without hesitation and I never buy Mexican insurance. The more conservative folks either don't drive or buy the Mexican Insurance which is like $10-15 a day. It's availible at the last couple of US exits before crossing the border, big signs. Or try 800-345-4701 by phone and fax or instant-mex-auto-insur.com beforehand.
Ensenada is kinda' like TJ was 30 years ago, a little smaller, only a couple of hundred thousand, vs the 2 million megalopoplis Tijuana has become. San Diego downtown is 15 miles north of the border, Ensenda another 60 miles, less than two hours as the toll road is freeway, relatively un-patrolled, kinda' autobahn like if you get my drift. You can come back the toll road, allow an extra hour for the border wait. No visa or passport or other docs, down or up, just a US Border Patrolman asking you your citizenship and whether you have anything to declare on the way back through. Or you could wander back up the country road to Tecate which is on the border about 30 miles east of TJ, inda' make a triangle of it. Tecate is what folks have in mind when you think small Mexican border town. Charming, only a couple of city blocks deep and 5 blocks wide with a charming central square.
As for service there's Marvin K. Brown Saab in San Diego proper, us at Continental 40 miles up the coast in Oceanside and north of us in Orange County another 25 miles is Saab of Mission Viejo.
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