Long and winding road

It has been almost a year since I crossed the border in a vehicle. Things may have changed but whenever ever I went into the Western half of Sonora or the entire Baja area they considered it the “No hassle zone “. There are even signs to that effect along the road. As such we didn’t have the usual permits for us or our vehicle. Farther east is not the same.

That's what I'm talking about. Away from Baja California, on the mainland south or east of the Sonoran "no hassle zone", the rules are different. We drove from Tecate to Cabo San Lucas and didn't even require a TIP, until we took the ferry from La Paz over to the mainland.