What’s the best way to get to Rosarito you ask? Well, its simple really.
You get yourself into Tijuana, make sure your batteries are charged for your headlamps, and buy a canary. Then locate the entrance to a particularly large underground tunnel (most likely located inside a run-down, boarded-up bullet-hewn mansion once belonging to a famous gangster). Bikes will fit, don’t worry. Keep that canary in the front to test the oxygen situation. Now this tunnel will take you about 20 miles right into Rosarito. In fact, when you exit the tunnel, you will be directly across the street from the Hostel Del Alamo in Al Capone’s old house! How convenient. So this is Al Capone’s tunnel he built back in the day for drug running. I’m sure you can find the other end in Tijuana somewhere, no problem. We would have taken it, if only we had known sooner! :-) Consider yourselves lucky to have this information before hand!
So Jesse and I just crossed the border the old fashioned way, by bicycle! On the freeway! Not only did we have to avoid getting hit by cars and trucks, we had to avoid hitting the people walking on the freeway too! Ahh, back in Mexico, where anything goes! But we’ve been in Rosarito waiting out a rainstorm for a few days now. We crossed the border with no problem, then hauled ass out of Tijuana straight into Rosarito. The ride was everything we expected. No bike lanes or sharing the road around here!
Last sunday Jesse and I hopped a train from LA to San Diego, stayed at Enoch’s house, loaded up on equipment, then crossed the border wednesday. We jumped ahead of the rest of the crew by about a week. Mainly because Jesse and I needed some time to ourselves. We’ve also been scoping out places and faces for the crew, and sharing our findings. The “advance team” that Enoch always talked about! Him and his damn military training, ok OK you were right! It is awfully handy to get the feel of a place in person before a whole motley crew rolls up and takes the place over!
So as soon as the rain lets up, we’ll get back on the road, to La Mision, then Ensenada, then…the bottom of Baja! Do you know any sweet spots in Baja? Leave us a message at the end of this here blog and let us know about it! This is our fist time here, and apparently summer is a much better time to be here than winter! South! We need to get south!!!
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