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    Viva Baja! First Timer's Baja Impressions

    Great report..we 1st went down as a group in 07...spent 10 days round trip from Yuma to San Ignacio lagoon and back...fell in love with Gonzaga Bay and have been returning twice a year since!! Thanks for refreshing our memories of the 1st trip (07 FJ Cruiser, kayak on top pulling a USA...
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Doron is still in Vail...I lived around the corner from him until we moved out to Mescal...he's a good guy!
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Our 1st trip was with Jack Silbe (San Diego), Doron Strassman (Tucson) and Jose (euroman/El Paso)...firends now...didnt know any of them until they showed us the wonders of Baja and the Whales
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Love those early Gonzaga pics...we are noobies to Baja...our 1st trip was in 2007 with newly found on line friends over at 4wdtrips.net . We did that Puertecitos to GB road in a FJ Cruiser with a kayak on top and a 4wd camper trailer out back....tooks 5 + hours just for that leg,. Now you can go...
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Sooo..replace the group 24 (NOT 27 as suspected) with a pair of 27 or 31's....OR switch to a pair of Trojan T105 6v?Then back it all up with 100w solar?
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Goodtimes...seems like we are in a parallel universe. Thanks for the info... May I ask? Where in Tucson...we are way East in Mescal What beaches in Mexico? What kind of camper? Cheers Mike & Sharon
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Typical trip? A 5-7 trip to Gonzaga Bay in Baja...drop the camper, launch the boat, tie up to a friends mooring and use the camper as base camp...BUT that was in the Northstar TC 650 on the Tundra. We are now in a full size truck camper, so I cant give you a battery life number. Generator...
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    upgrade on board batteries or add solar

    Ive read a few threads but thought I would ask the question here. 2004 Eagle Cap 1150 with a pair of group 27 wet cell batteries. On board Onan 2500 LP generator. Would you upgrade the batteries to say a pair of AGM group 31's or invest in a solar panel? Rumor has it that the camper is pre wired...
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    from Venturcraft trailer to TC650 to Eagle Cap

    Sooo after years of going to Baja...1st in 07 with an FJ and a Venturcraft trailer....then a Tundra with a TC 650...we parked next to friends with a 11.5 hardside and have made the move over to the hardside crowd.. Duramax 3500 dually crew cab 4x4...headed to Twin Falls ID next week to pick up...
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    leaving my TC650 for an Eagle Cap

    So...after years of searching for a clean used TC650..and finding one....I parked next to friends with a full sized Lance...now we've sold the TC650 to a fellow EP couple and moving over to the hard side...oh yeah Tundra also gone to a crew cab Duramax dually 4x4 thanks to all the posts, mods...
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    2003 Northstar TC650

    SOLD SOLD...thanks Steve and Laura safe travels
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    2003 Northstar TC650

    SALE PENDING!!
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    2003 Northstar TC650

    Lowered price to $5250...I really do not have room for two campers and a boat.....you know you want it!
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    2003 Northstar TC650

    Per the Northstar website this will fit a long or short bed full size truck. NOTE: Tailgate must be OFF or DOWN... I know its winter, but I already own another camper and will entertain any reasonable offer...AND I dont have space to park TWO~
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    2003 Northstar TC650

    OK...got bigger truck....got bigger camper.....this one needs a good expedition home before I put it on CL or EB.....make me an offer I cant refuse...dont be shy....
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