Mexico’s Baja California cape is 800 miles long, the fourth longest peninsula in the world. It features an amazing variety of terrain: turquoise blue water along the Bay of Cortez; three majestic mountain ranges that ramble through the mainly uninhabited Desert Central region; vast desert scenery pockmarked with ancient volcanoes, home to 70 percent of all cactus species found throughout the world including the giant Cardon cactus, and includes ocotillo and mesquite.
It was Friday morning and Bill Jefferies and Graydon Briggs arrived at the Edmunds' home by 08:00 in Bill's Excursion towing a trailer. It was rather cold outside, 30 degrees.
Thursday morning my wife, Lis, and I were up by 06:30 and getting ready to leave for the Bar-10 Ranch on the Arizona Strip and our big ride. My son came over the night before and helped me load my KTM and gear into the Tundra. We were on the road shortly after 07:30 on heading south on I-15. We had 330 miles to go to reach the Bar-10 Ranch; sixty-five miles on dirt roads beginning at the Arizona Border.
