I was on a mission to reclaim the life of free-camping I had while motoring the Trans-American Trail and since beach camping in Mexico is legal, I decided to skip the RV pay site and find a stunning spot on the beach in San Carlos, Sonora – a stunning but touristy town full of yachts and vacant vacation mansions. And fortunately for the all-night-long police beach patrol, the teenie-boppers blaring the Ranchera music for their Friday night playa party was cut short and I caught a few Z’s ...
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My initial plan of rolling the Trans-American Trail solo, meeting my South American friend, Malcolm, who I met while teaching English in Colombia, in Atlanta, and continuing to moto through the south before slipping into Mexico through Texas was drastically changed after Malcolm’s 2007 Craigslisted KLR showed its true “lemon” color. Aside from one perfect day in November, coincidentally my birthday that was spent scuba diving in Key Largo, we spent the majority of mid-October to mid-Dec...
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