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Saturday, Sept. 30th - Save The Date!
Baja Bound is proud to announce the 2nd annual Baja Lifestyle & Travel Expo! The Expo will be held at Crown Point Park in San Diego on Saturday,
Sept. 30th. The event will feature over 100 booths, live music, guest speakers, food trucks, a beer & wine garden and raffle prizes! If you didn't
get a chance to attend the event in 2022, check out the video and photo gallery at the bottom of the page! We will announce the full lineup of guest
speakers, live music and exhibitors in August.
We hope to see you there!
A bit from the 2022 event (includes Graham Mackintosh):
[Edited on 10-1-2023 by David K]Maderita - 7-21-2023 at 12:20 PM
Thanks for posting David. I'm looking forward to the event.pauldavidmena - 7-21-2023 at 03:17 PM
To quote from one of my favorite movies, "Anything free is worth saving up for."David K - 7-25-2023 at 08:15 AM
While the guide pages above where my doing, the book's final look will be in the hands of Baja Bound's hired editor/ publisher... a fellow well known
for producing Baja publications. He did create the cover, which I naturally like!HeyMulegeScott - 7-25-2023 at 06:19 PM
Many of you have been waiting a long time for my Baja Bound Road Guide to be published. Me too!!!
Nice. Looking forward to having another printed Baja book. Will it be for sale on their website?David K - 7-26-2023 at 12:31 PM
No doubt, yes... but for sure it will have a link on my website and Facebook groups! "So much Baja, so little time" was my slogan. I am just so
thrilled I could see so much Baja while researching the peninsula's roads.
I have seen Baja since the mid-1960s, and the changes. It really is a wealth of observations I want to share. I have a large photo library with dozens
of 'albums' at VivaBaja to give a look at what travel has been like and how sites have changed. The mission photos from me and others, back to the
1800s really illustrate that!
a nice addition to the writings about history and roads.
As we've talked about more than a few times - the BIG question - will it have an Index of place names, a critical feature in my view?
John M
You were a major helper with all my books and that is appreciated. The Road Guide is Baja Bound's and while I was all set to do the index work, the
manuscript with corrected page numbers has yet to be sent to me. Maybe it can happen but perhaps not until a second edition? I could always create a
pdf one for anyone who requests.
Thinking of you, I have been building one on my website! www.vivabaja.com/viva-baja-index/
[Edited on 7-28-2023 by David K]wilderone - 7-28-2023 at 07:16 AM
Congratulations on the book, David. Great resource for future travelers.David K - 7-28-2023 at 07:24 AM
Congratulations on the book, David. Great resource for future travelers.
Thank you so much, Cindi... but it is not here, yet! Fingers crossed.
Mark your calendar, Sept. 30 on Mission Bay, San Diego
David K - 9-7-2023 at 04:31 PM
For my amigos who have been waiting for the printed version of the Baja Bound Road Guide, to be introduced on Sept. 30 at the Expo... I have NO NEWS.
It is frustrating to have worked on a pretty-good guide and then turn it over to someone else to set-up and publish who doesn't communicate. Let's
just say, I will be pleasantly surprised to see it in print then.
I have made available to the Nomads here, over half of the book; some as sample jpeg pages on VivaBaja.com or as a PDF of the north half part of the
guide, by mail.
The good news is that changes I have seen or heard have kept the original 2018 guide updated through 2022.
[Edited on 9-12-2023 by David K]wilderone - 9-25-2023 at 06:45 PM
Looking forward to this!
I want to warn those who may be coming from the south and driving Interstate 5 that there will be major lane closures starting at National City and
toward downtown San Diego. In that 6 mi. section only one lane open. Some onramps, offramps to Int. 5 closed as well. I think it will open to all
lanes around the Sassafras, Pacific Hwy. offramps.
There is more detailed information online. Starts Sept. 29, 9 pm to Oct. 2, 5 am. (Fri - Mon). David K - 9-26-2023 at 03:24 AM
Use I-805 north or I-15 north then cut over on the I-8 to Mission Bay/ Sea World exit.
Early weather report mentions a chance for sprinkles Saturday... but they are usually wrong, right?David K - 9-28-2023 at 06:16 AM
Good Thursday Morning...
This Saturday, the last I heard was...
There is a 20% chance of rain... or you can say an 80% chance of no rain!
The Baja Expo is going to be really a big deal! There is a lot of Baja love in the Southwest.
I just learned our own GregN (Greg Niemann of 'Baja Fever' and 'Baja Legends') plans to be there.
Greg joins with other authors (and some are also Nomads):
Graham (Graham Mackintosh books and articles),
Edie Littlefield Sundby 'The Mission Walker',
Jens Tobias 'The Gold of Northern Baja',
and myself 'Baja California Land of Missions' and 'Baja Bound Road Guide' (no word from the publisher if it will be there, so don't hold your
breath)... I will bring a pre-publication version of it you can flip through, but it is not in color.
[Edited on 9-28-2023 by David K]JZ - 9-28-2023 at 07:21 AM
Looks like a sweet event. David K - 9-29-2023 at 08:31 AM
Dress for wet weather.
As Wilderone mentioned, if you are coming north from Tijuana or South Bay, avoid I-5 and use I-805 or I-15 north to I-8, then west to Mission Bay.bajaric - 9-29-2023 at 07:31 PM
As advertised, I will be there with my little self-published book about the Gold of Northern Baja, written under my pen name Jens Tobias. I will have
some copies for sale at twenty bucks, a discount from the Amazon price.
DK was kind enough to go through the book and found some typos that have now been corrected.
I feel like I will be in the shadow of Baja giants. Looks like a fun event with music etcetera hope to see you there -- David K - 10-1-2023 at 07:29 AM
The Expo was great... No rain!!
The book authors were all in one row starting with the Baja Atlas from Benchmark, Greg Niemann ('GregN'), Graham Mackintosh ('Graham'), Edie 'The
Mission Walker' Littlefield-Sundby, me, Jens Tobias ('bajaric'), and a really nice Baja Food-Cooking book with color photos (the name escapes me).
Photos (a few) coming soon...David K - 10-1-2023 at 10:02 AM
At the Sept. 30, Baja Expo (hosted by Baja Bound Insurance), 'bajaric' aka Jens Tobias sat at the authors' tables and we had a really nice visit with
him and the attendees. He arrived after photos were taken, so sadly was not included in those shots: https://vivabaja.com/2023-baja-expo/
It was really good fun talking with Jens as well as the other authors and all who came to our tables that beautiful day*. *Rain was predicted and was
even falling in North County, but not on Mission Bay from noon to 5 pm.
Thanks DK! I should be paying you a commission. Or Co-mission, get it? David took it upon himself to proofread the book and sent me a chart of the
typos referenced by page number, then posted several reviews here and on vivabaja.com. That is some pure feel-good Baja energy with a little OCD
thrown in for good measure.
I hope the book will have a broader appeal to baja history buffs, off-roaders, campers, etc. beyond the handful of hard-core prospectors that actually
make the trek to Baja in search of gold. Ron from talkbaja is reading it, hoping that he puts in some good words over there.
Perhaps it is not in the same league as Into a Desert Place, Baja Fever, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (definitely not) or some of the other classics
but I like to think that I have contributed in a small way to the body of Baja literature.
