Driving to Nowhere – August 7 & 8, 2006
Friday, August 11th, 2006So far we found some good waves and camped at a few nice spots but we hadn’t found any towns that we wanted to spend more than a day in. So we decided to try to cover some more ground and get further down the coast. (we were only ¼ of the way down Baja after 4 days) The surfer’s guide we had been trusting so far mentioned some cool bay towns just South of the North/South Baja border so we decided to sacrifice a day driving. BAD IDEA. We drove for something like 13 hours….the drive was supposed to be 5-6 hours. We drove through nothing and then more nothing, then into the real nothing. The desert has some pretty spots at sunset, but never seemed to end. After a while the paved road ended and we were driving on a washboard dirt road for hours, sometimes slowing to a crawl because of the condition of the road. [read on]
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