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We rode our motorcycles south
along Ruta 1
through a nice landscape.
Just south of San
Quintin we saw signs for The
Old Mill hotel, which turned out to
be very nice. They often have groups,
thankfully not that night, and it can get
quite loud at night, as they told us.
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The further south we went the
better the landscape
got. Unfortunately the weather
didn't comply. It rained often with many heavy
showers.
It was surreal to ride in the desert with cacti
all around in the pouring rain.
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The infamous 200
mile gas-gap south of El Rosario wasn't
a problem for us, as we have enough range with
our bikes. They are selling gas/petrol out of
barrels and canisters in Catavina (left photo)
and at the intersection to Bahia de los Angeles
(right photo). We went to Bahia de los Angeles
to stay the night and they actually have two gas
stations there.
We came across Mexicans that ran out of gas in
their car just a mile or so before Catavina, so
we helped them out with one of our spare fuel cans, which we
always carry on any trip. We were disappointed
that they didn't even thank us.
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| The ride to Bahia de los Angeles
was nice and winding. The town itself wasn't
impressive.It was getting late, so we decided to
find a hotel in town. The first one we tried was
full, the second one was way up a hill on a
steep dirt road and we decided that it was too
far from restaurants. We picked another one
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The hotel
Villa Bahia was OK, but we were the
only guests and they had hardly any food in the
restaurant and threw something together for us.
They offered us wine, but then didn't have any,
and had only a few cans of beer left. A group
had cancelled due to COVID-19 and another
Canadian group had left early, so I guess they
didn't expect any new guests.
They are clearly used to motorcycle travellers
as they immediately said we could park the bikes
inside the small courtyard.
Otherwise the hotel was OK and the bay is really
nice. |
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Further south on Ruta 1 we crossed
the "border" from Baja California to Baja
California Sur.
The weather
still had some rain showers for us, which made
the road construction sites quite muddy.
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