Malcolm Smith Adventures
1998 Six Days of Baja

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Day Four



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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.



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3-12 #61

Friday 4/17/98

Along the tidal salt flats.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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3-17 #66

Friday 4/17/98

Scorpion Bay Bar and Grill with the lunch crowd.



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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.



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3-20 #69

Friday 4/17/98

Doug’s DR350 in its natural habitat.



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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.



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3-22 #71

Friday 4/17/98 The usual method of getting up the second section, dismount and walk it up.



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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.



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3-25 #74

Friday 4/17/98

The view back down the coast. We had ridden the beach as far as you can see.



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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.



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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.



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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.