

| Subject: | Re: Baja travel with 5 Vanagons |
| From: | Mark Belanger |
| Date: | Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:21:42 -0700 |
The time period I experienced was the late 80s, but I'm glad you folks made it through hassle-free. -MB On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:20 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > None of us got pulled over...I think the law authorities have really > cleaned up their act since the 60's and 70's, tourism is really important > to them. There are however, several military checkpoints you pass through; > they ask a few questions (like where are you coming from and where are you > going) and we tried our best to give answers....lots of bewildered shoulder > shrugging most of the time. Every so often they will want to open the back > hatch or the slider and look around a little and check out what is in your > ice chest; these guys are there for your protection mostly. I'm glad they > are there, it all works out pretty well for everybody. > > Rich > > San Diego > > > On Friday, March 27, 2020, 1:49:15 PM PDT, Mark Belanger < > mbelanger@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Nice pics, Rich! > > How many times did you get pulled over? I grew up in SD and in High School > we used to drive down to Ensenada and have beers and lunch over looking the > ocean at a place called Hotel La Fonda. We'd keep our cash in our socks > with just five or six bucks in our wallets, so when we were > inevitably pulled over, we could ask, "Is there any way we could pay our > fine now?" and let them clean out our wallets. > > Good times... > > > -MB > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: > > > Trying again to send this after some coaching from Vanagon List > > folks....here is the Dropbox link, but I am pretty dubious that it will > > work, that ListServ thing is adept at stripping everything; but worth > > another try. I've even asked the moderators for help, but it might just > be > > impossible....that whole AC isn't DC thing, or something along those > lines. > > > > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d3bm94hi3zzsv63/AAAozjLP8gBha3rFJlHvvlkga?dl=0 > > > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > Mark Belanger - mbelanger@gmail.com > > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Mark Belanger - mbelanger@gmail.com
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