Mexican auto insurance is a necessity and can be bought from AAA and other vendors in U.S. border cities, and via the Internet. Most hotels and some restaurants accept credit cards. Pemex gas stations accept only cash, in dollars or pesos.
Travelers checks are usually impossible to cash except in larger cities and hotels.
ATM machines are found at banks in larger towns and cities. All rights reserved. An observation boat approaches one the 30-ton leviathans along Baja's Pacific coast. Each autumn, some 20,000 gray whales migrate 5,000 miles from the Bering and Chukchi seas to the lagoons of Baja. There they breed and give birth.