Malcolm Smith Adventures
1998 Six Days of Baja
Photo Gallery
Day Four
3-11 #60
Friday 4/17/98
Along the salt tidal flats on the way to Punta Pequena. L-R: Russel Ogilvie, Bob Mueller, Brian Pietak.
3-12 #61
Friday 4/17/98
Along the tidal salt flats.
3-13 #62
Friday 4/17/98
Coming off the salt tidal flats, one of the scores of roadside shrines that we saw along the way.
3-14 #63
Friday 4/17/98
Gas stop at Punta Pequena. The gas was siphoned from 5 gallon jerry cans. The family used a stick that they stuck down into the cans to measure how much you’d used. Octane unknown.
3-16 #65
Friday 4/17/98
View from the restaurant at lunch. It was run by a guy named Jim from San Diego. He’d been down there for over seven years. He spoke no Spanish when he moved there. Has since married a local girl and has a child. The good life.
3-17 #66
Friday 4/17/98
Scorpion Bay Bar and Grill with the lunch crowd.
3-18 #67
Friday 4/17/98
After lunch we headed down to the beach for a run south at high speed. Great fun playing in the sand and surf.
3-20 #69
Friday 4/17/98
Doug’s DR350 in its natural habitat.
3-21 #70
Friday 4/17/98
Coming off the beach. The run up went through a mud hole, up a steep bank, then through a section of deep sand.
3-22 #71
Friday 4/17/98 The usual method of getting up the second section, dismount and walk it up.
3-24 #73
Friday 4/17/98
The view from the top of the dunes. The rocks to the left are the reason we had to come up off the beach.
3-25 #74
Friday 4/17/98
The view back down the coast. We had ridden the beach as far as you can see.
4-1 #75
Friday 4/17/98
The road into San Jose De Comondu, a really neat little town that will take you back 200 years instantly. Beautiful oasis valley forested in date palms.
4-2 #76
Friday 4/17/98
Russell and I in jail in San Jose De Comondu. A local took our picture in the lockup. We took a break here and hung out with the locals for a while. Great stop. One of my favorite memories of the entire ride is the time spent here.
4-4 #78
Friday 4/17/98
Bike wash station at the Oasis Hotel in Loreto. I washed off the ocean salt after doing the daily maintenance. Later took a ride around town to get some film. Great place, and probably my favorite overnight stop on the entire ride.