Best route to take through Mexico.

[adamr1313]

Hello all,
I am looking for a sort of second opinion on info i received on the road.
At the moment I am in Sayulita, Mexico (just north of Puerto Vallarta) and I will be leaving in the next couple days to visit a friend in Albuquerque, NM, see the south side of the Grand Canyon and then make my way up to NorCal for the beginning of October. In that order.
I was fairly sure I would take the obvious route past Chihuahua, cross at Juarez and hit albuquerque from there.
Someone told me that I would be wiser to go to Mazatlan, take a ferry to La Paz, Baja, (where hitchhiking is much much easier), cross the border at Mexicali and get to albuquerque from there.
Ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks
Adam

[redford]

If you have the $60 for the 6 hour ferry crossing then that is one way to go. Hitching the Baja is pretty easy and many people speak English. It's also pretty easy to hitch highway 15 along the coast as many truckers are headed to Nogales and the crossing there. Crossed at Juarez also, there is a public bus that takes you right to the border crossing but that goes for most of the border towns.
The problem will be when you try to hitch in Arizona especially near the border.

[themodernnomad]

Agreed with Redford. I've never been up the Baja peninsula but have heard good things about it. If you're not pressed for time, I found it pretty simple to just follow the highway west from Chihuahua to Tijuana, really nice route through the desert and Sierra Madre mountians.


-MN