BARF Adventure Riders know the BARF Rally season really starts in January:
BARF Baja 2020 - Want to join us? Here is how?
the plated-dirt-bike contingent leaves in a week, so the KLR krew—needing a good head start—is leaving to ride down tomorrow, attempting to meet-up with the better, faster riders in Bahia de los Angeles on 1/26.
link to my
SPOT device, if anyone wants to see how that plan works out ...

(link should be live when I turn my SPOT on, tomorrow)
Baja is a wonderful place to ride to in January (if the weather cooperates), with 10,000 ft mountains and a beautiful desert that sweeps down to meet the sea.
more or less the planned route, only we may stay in the mountains in Baja, and head down the Pacific side:
Here's a rough map of our route south ...
Google says it's 1029 miles and 21 hours of riding to Bahia de los Angeles ...
or maybe we’ll try to stay low:
near
Laguna Hansen, 01/01/2020:
in any event, there seem to be
five BARF Rallies later in the year, each of which can be arrived at on some ADV-style roads, with a bit of planning ...

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