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4-5 #79

Saturday 4/18/98

Sunrise over the beach and the Sea of Cortez. View out the front door of our room. Beach was pretty coarse. Wind was blowing a ton the day before, but calm now.

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4-9 #83

Saturday 4/18/98

A couple of riders heading down the trail towards the San Javier Mission.

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4-10 #84

Saturday 4/18/98

Short rock wash trail just before reaching the mission. Great little tour and some neat artifacts at the mission. Didn’t spend as much time here as the one at San Ignacio.

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4-12 #86

Saturday 4/18/98

Lunch at the taco stand in Ciudad Constitution. The lady cooks every taco to order on a little grill about 18" by 24". It took about 25 mins to get a chicken taco.

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4-13 #87

Saturday 4/18/98

Bob helps Brian fix a flat at the lunch stop. The rest of us were occupied trying to keep the world’s most larcenous little girl out of all of our gear and tools. Bob finally occupied her for a few minutes with a power bar.

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4-15 #89

Saturday 4/18/98

L-R: Bob Mueller, Malcolm Smith, Doug Hackney

We’ve got another shot similar to this from Malcolm’s first dual sport ride 3 or 4 years ago. Bob and I have put in a lot of dirt miles since then. If we keep going we’ll catch Malcolm in 2078.

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4-17 #91

Saturday 4/18/98

The dirt trails led down to the coast, where we had to decend a massive sand cliff to the beach. Once down, we rode down a long beach section filled with natural jumps.

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4-18 #92

Saturday 4/18/98

Scenic stop along the beach.

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4-19 #93

Saturday 4/18/98

Doug Hackney at the end of the beach run. The successful run down to the beach and making it down the sand cliff had provided some vindication from my disaster with the cactus trail earlier in the week.

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4-21 #95

Saturday 4/18/98

At the support trucks, before the pavement run down into LaPaz. The sattelite phones proved to be invaluable in tracking which riders had made it in, and which were still on the trail. The signal quality was incredible, with not too bad of a lag.