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August 2, 2016
The Baja Trip
Looks like the final metrics on my trip went something like this:
I left Riverside, CA at 1:15 pm on Thursday 7/28/2016.
I got back into Riverside, CA at 11:30 a.m. on Monday 8/1/2016.
So, I was gone for roughly 4 days.
Trip Starting Odometer: 42,993
Trip Ending Odometer : 44,240
Trip Miles Driven: 1,247 miles
So that works out to roughly 300 miles a day for 4 days, which seems about right.
I made a few mistakes on the trip. I should have boned up on my Spanish road signs before I went down there so I knew what they meant. Also, I should have immediately stopped at an ATM once I entered the country to get some local currency. (I had about a thousand pesos, but I needed more). Finally, when I came back into the USA, I made the mistake of not stocking up on drinks (Jumex, etc) while in Mexico, and I would have liked to come back with more Mexican currency also.
But other than that, the trip went pretty well. I had a GPS, which helped, but a lot of the towns are not in my GPS for some reason. That's something I need to take up with Garmin, I suppose.
Probably taking a paper map as a backup would be a good idea.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 2, 2016 at 1:22 PM
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