I spent some wintertime months for a few years in this once lovely area and I treasure the locals I came to know. This was in the late 70's and early
80's.
Parking at San Pedrito for free before the campground up on a small bluff with an overlook was a reward for myself and the many friends I came to know
who would return every winter.
Even after the campground came to be, it was still a treasure for a few months every winter.
Imagining all the changes going on lately, does not inspire me to want to return. I would love to reconnect with these treasured friends while I
still am able. Even more, the locals are having to deal with trying to protect what brought them all there to begin with.
I hope they can mitigate the damage that profiteering is bringing. Those were some magical times.
I saw the same thing happen to the East Cape and San Jose del Cabo in the 80's, 90's and early 2,000's to the point that I had trouble finding my way
out to east cape road in the early 2010's. From a population of 30,000 to a quarter of a million fifteen years ago was not helpful.
I hope the developer greed can be moderated for Todos and Pescadero but I suspect that may be already history. I hope it is not hopeless.
About all anyone can do is to have their own sanctuary to keep the outside world at bay. I hope that works for my dear friends still there. I will
forever be grateful for their friendships when we all were living in such simple and relatively uncomplicated times.
The water issue should be paramount and it is not. Keep draining those precious aquifers for the $. Gawd, the local water was sooo good and safe to
drink back then. I hope it still is.
Dreams of the past are worth remembering. So are the treasured friends I still value to this day for the times we shared.
One of my first visits around 75 or so, I got in late at night and the only restaurant I could find still open on the highway in Pescadero served me
the fish tacos I ordered straight of a can of sardines.
Why that still triggers my memory banks is because I laughed at the moment and knew this would be a memory that would be with me for all my days. I
know I ate there again a number of times and always got fresh fish. There were very few choices in those days.
Best wishes to my old, make that older friends, and hope they have made their own sanctuaries to get them through their days in a special place like
few others.
Peace love and fresh fish tacos to all Nomads.
I too was there then. We used to camp in the stand of palms set back from the beach. The surf was never crowded. Larga distancia calls and fish tacos
at Pilars in TS. We'd fill up on water from the spigot in the park in TS.
By the 80s that changed and we moved on to Pastora. The whole area was done by the 90s. Now I sometimes drive the coast road from Conejo and don't
stop in TS at all except to air up.
Baja is still kinda fun but very limited now.
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