Given it was winter (late December) when we crossed into the USA from Mexico we decided to tour the southwest rather than head north, and into the snow, too quickly. This proved to be a good decision because, although cold, we’ve had mostly sunny weather. We tried to pick a route that would take us through the ‘headline’ national parks […]
We always knew the USA was going to be easy; we just didn’t realise how easy. Getting in was a breeze – no Spanish Inquisition and we quickly has a six month stamp in our passport. We chose a quiet border crossing at Tecate and they clearly weren’t used to expedition trucks coming through. It was quite disorganised – we […]
Headline – we did not get shot, robbed, kidnapped or made to pay any bribes in Mexico, contrary to the popular belief! In fact, we found Mexico to be a very peaceful and friendly country; but we did abide by the UK Government’s travel advice on where to go. We stayed in country for just over four months (128 days) […]
Mainland Mexico is very different to Baja California; the former is ‘Mexican’, whilst Baja feels like the US’s backyard! Our ferry docked north of La Paz and very shortly afterwards we were parked on the beach at Tecolote. From there we circumnavigated the southern tip of the peninsula before heading north to the US border crossing at Tecate. Unless you […]