Welcome

An Overview of where we will visit during the 2025 ¡Vamos a Baja! Rally!

On Day 1 of the Rally, will all meet up in beautiful Potrero County Park in San Diego County, California, which is approximately 45 miles east of downtown San Diego. Our dedicated Parking Team will direct you to your designated parking space when you arrive. After getting parked and hooked up, you will proceed to the Pavilion.

There, you will sign in, receive very helpful documentation that will make your Baja stay more enjoyable, verify your membership in Chapter 8, verify that you have all the required documentation to travel into Mexico and we will answer any questions you may have.  As Rally attendees will be arriving over several hours, you will have some free time after registering to mingle. We just ask that you proceed directly to the Pavilion as soon as you get settled into your campsite.  At 4:27 that evening, we will all meet again in the Pavilion for a “Happy Hour”, which is a chance to enjoy a meet-and-greet and share in a Potluck Dinner.

NOTE: Everyone is expected to arrive at Potrero County Park with a full tank of fuel. You will not have time to run out fuel up after you arrive and we will not be stopping for fuel in Mexico, until we get ready to leave our second campground, 95 miles south of Potrero Park.

On Day 2 of the Rally will be filled with an extensive Orientation Presentation on traveling in Mexico, discussing our Rally Itinerary, and you will meet with your Group Leader.  To travel through Baja more safely and efficiently, we break into smaller travel groups led by an experienced Group Leader and is followed up by a Tailgunner.  Each Group Leader will work with his or her assigned travel members to decide the order of RVs in their group, explain all the details of traveling in groups, answer any questions, etc. This is also a great time to ensure that your CB’s are working. This will be another busy day. As we will do each day, a Happy Hour will start at 4:57 p.m. During this time, we’ll discuss the next day’s activities, answer questions, etc.  You may bring hors d’oeuvres for everyone to enjoy during Happy Hours. 

On Day 3 of the Rally, we will go on a Walkabout in Tecate, Mexico. We will gather in our travel groups to carpool to the border in 30-minute intervals. Once there, we will walk across the border together in our group and get our FMM cards, have lunch, visit a bakery, a bank, and an ATM, maybe enjoy a Tecate cerveza, and view the route we will travel with our RVs the following day. Bring your comfortable walking shoes and maybe an umbrella.  We usually spend a half day in Tecate. Upon our return to Potrero County Park, anyone who didn’t test their CBs will do so at that time. We will finish the day with our daily Happy Hour at 4:57 p.m. That evening, we’ll all need to ensure that our RVs are packed and ready to cross the border the following morning. We will also ask for volunteers to help clean the Pavilion that evening.

On Day 4 of the Rally is the Big Day!  We cross the border and begin our journey into Baja in our RV’s!  How exciting! We will leave Potrero Park at staggered times in our travel groups to ensure there’s no logjam at the border.  Each rig must ensure they have filled their freshwater tank and emptied their black/gray tanks and have their Passports, FMM Card, and all vehicle registrations handy before leaving Potrero Park.  The drive to our first stop, Zoologico Parque del Nino Jersey (“the Zoo”), located in Valle de Guadalupe, is only about three hours, with a quick stop along the way, so it’s an easy first day’s drive.

On Day 5, we will enjoy the Zoo and the surrounding Wine Country. Due to our excellent long-term relationship with the Zoo, we will enjoy several zoo-related activities, including a private guided Behind the Scenes Tour and an opportunity to participate in a Be a Zookeeper for a Day. As a special treat for this Rally, for the first time, we have arranged to have a local Native Mexican Indigenous group come to the Zoo and provide entertainment.

On Day 9, we will travel about three hours further south to La Jolla Beach Camp, which is just south of Ensenada.  We will enjoy a Welcome Dinner that evening with Miguel Pabloff, our host, and his family.  We will have a guest speaker and a Mariachi Band for entertainment during dinner. La Jolla is where we will perform our Charity work, have our Auction, enjoy an off-road 4×4 excursion (for the brave ones!), a theatre play, a performance by the children’s Folklorico Dancers, and a lot of time on the beach and the surrounding area.

On Day 17, we will travel east and cross the mountains to Victor’s RV Park in the seaside community of San Felipe on the stunning Sea of Cortez. We will enjoy warmer weather there, visit the town and the surrounding area, and have a General Meeting where we will vote in new Board Members for next year’s rally.

NOTE: Our rally ends in San Felipe. After the rally ends, about 90% of the attendees will generally travel on to other places in Mexico on what we call Add-on trips. These trips are not in any way associated with the Rally.  Usually, there will be a volunteer group leader who will lead people to the new location, but there are no meetings and no scheduled activities at the new locations.  These are great opportunities for you to try out your new Baja travel skills and see more of the beautiful Baja!

NOTE: We will have a Happy Hour at the campground every evening at 4:27 p.m. (unless otherwise stated). During this time, we will discuss the current day’s activities and provide information about the following day’s activities. To get the most out of this rally, please plan to attend the beginning of all Happy Hours at least.  Frequently, there are last-minute changes to the Itinerary, and this is where that information will be announced.

All of this and more for $1,177.00 for doubles or $910.00 for singles.

This is the route we will be traveling. The roads we will be traveling on will be very similar to those you will be taking to get to Potrero Park: sometimes narrow and curvy.

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