Homework is vital before travel in Baja California, especially if you're considering a road trip.
Questions over Americans' safety in Mexico have been underlined by the mid-January death of Orange County public defender Elliot Blair, who suffered unexplained head injuries at a Rosarito Beach resort; and by the early March shooting deaths of two Americans and one Mexican in an apparently botched kidnapping in Matamoros, 1,570 miles east of Tijuana.
Here's a rundown of sources I consulted and factors I weighed before my eight-day drive to Cabo San Lucas in early January.
