Baja Backroads

We left Sandy's house in San Diego (thanks for the awesome dinner and hospitality Sandy) on Saturday morning and headed for Tijuana for the crossing into Mexico. We were met with a long line up at the border but at least it wasn't raining. The paperwork at the Border went well but mostly because of the patient and English speaking people there. We took the toll road to Ensenada and decided to hang out there as it seemed too late to go anywhere else. Remember? Don't ride at night. We ended up at a small local bar where there was live music and a wedding reception going on. It was pretty cool. Once the word was out that we were from Vancouver Island and heading for South America on our bikes we didn't have to buy any more drinks. They were very nice people. On Sunday we had a slow start (the free drinks; remember?) but headed across the Baja on Hwy 3 and 5 to San Felipe. It used to be a small fishing town but is getting popular with Americans and there are lots of real estate developments on the go. It seemed most people spoke English which doesn't help our Spanish.
Today, we didn't get out of San Felipe until 9:00 am because we kept running into other bikers and getting road info from them. One of the guys told us the road we were planning on using would be perfect for our bikes. I took it with a grain of salt as he had just finished second in his Class and 6th overall in the Baja 1000.  We continued south from San Felipe and ended up on a somewhat rough road. It was absolutely awesome. I couldn't believe we were riding that Baja backroad. It took us 3 hours to go the last 80 km on the dirt. I finally figured out how to ride a little better in sand. We ended up on Hwy 1 where we continued South.We had to buy gas from a roadside vendor who was conveniently parked where the gas station used to be. Were not sure how much we bought but he had the corner on the market. We are in Guerrero Negro tonight. Not much here but the hotel is nice and so is the owner.
Here's a few pics.

San Felipe at Sunset

Hwy 5 South of San Felipe

There was lots of this.

Beautiful.

Taking a break.

More of this.

Mobile gas station on Hwy1.