The journalist then went to a hospital in San Diego to get checked out. The gray area of injured parties not being sent home to the U.S. before payment has set the San Diego County Board of Supervisors into action. The aim is to come up with procedures that can be used when Americans need to be taken back to the United States for emergency medical treatment. No one drinks the tap water and you shouldn't either. However, purified water is available just about everywhere, including the larger Pexmex gas stations.
Restaurants always serve bottled water.
Here are some things you should know if you're planning a trip. While riding on the dirt roads, it is entirely possible that you will come across vehicles that appear to be broken down, with folks trying to get you to stop. Don't stop simply wave as you go by. The likelihood of them wanting to do you harm is extremely low, but the bad guys don't wear name tags. Once in a while, robberies do happen in Baja and these are two that we know about.