Only One Road

If you haven’t looked at a map of Baja, you may not realize there is really only one road that transits this 1000-mile long peninsula. It’s Mex 1 that starts at Tijuana and continues south to Cabo San Lucas. There are about five paved roads that go off of Mex 1 to various destinations like Bahia de las Angeles, Todos Santos, and Tecate, most of which we either have, or will take. But mostly it’s Mex 1. As a result, most folks who travel to Baja end up going to pretty much the same destinations, which is one of the reasons that we regularly run into people multiple times. You’ve obviously noticed that we have spent a lot of time with our new-found friends from Penticton B.C., Canada. We talked about it tonight and figured out that coincidentally both of us crossed the border at about the same time and will cross it again, northbound, within a couple of days of each other. Both of us are also first-timers, taking an exploratory tour of Baja, so we tend to go to the same main-line destinations, and therefore perhaps surprisingly end up in many of the same locations. But while this may be a bit of an extreme case, we have discovered that a good number of people down here know each other from previous trips. It’s a relatively small community of Baja travelers, and there is “only one road”.