David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
My San Felipe Area Maps (1967- Today) Part 1
My hand drawn maps of Baja have been in discussion lately, so I thought a few of you might wish to see how my first map of the Nuevo Mazatlan area
looked...
Keep in mind I was 9 or 10, in 1967. I will add many others so you can see how my skills improved from then. Once I could drive, I went out exploring
all the dirt roads I had time to check out...
Om my 1967 map: The 'lagoon' became Bahia Santa Maria, three years later. The camp site at the end of the south coast road became 'La Roca', and the
Lenke (Lemke) shack became 'El Sahuaro'.
[Edited on 4-25-2004 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
1972, age 14
Using my Honda 70 trail bike, I advanced my map. Note the new camps, each structure is shown... There are so many homes now, that would be impossible
to show them on a map!
[Edited on 4-24-2004 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
April 1973, Age 15
More roads built...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Dec. 1973, Age 16
This one was pencil drawn and might be hard to see... I rode the dune buggy trail all the way to Laguna Percebu, my map had to grow! I didn't see any
tracks to Shell Island... so you see I drew it as an island!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Feb. 1978 (age 20)
Now driving a 4WD Subaru, I found the road onto Shell Island and continue to develope my map...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Apr. 1978, Bigger Area: San Felipe south 25 mi.
Now driving an economy 4WD, I expanded my map... Note the beach driving milages... a fun and common way for many to get south, if the tide was low.
[Edited on 4-24-2004 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
I have a few more in my stacks of Baja maps... continue on to part two to see the maps grow and improve in accuracy with my age and observations...
|
|
|
bajalou
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4459
Registered: 3-11-2004
Location: South of the broder
Member Is Offline
|
|
Before the highway
Good work David - interesting to see haw the roads were before the Puertocitos highway
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Thanks Lou, I am surprised how the number of new dirt roads was expanding until the new Puertecitos road was built ('82). After that, few people used
the old road and, as the highway stays close to the coast for 35+ miles, no new campo driveways going way inland are needed. The old road was more fun
to drive! A tortillaria popped up near the big water wells, and it was fun buying fresh hot tortillas as we headed for Nuevo Mazatlan.
|
|
|
Barry A.
Select Nomad
Posts: 10007
Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: optimistic
|
|
This is great!!!!
David, being a "map-nut", I find these maps absolutely fasinating!!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us. They will provide me with hours of
pleasure comparing and remembering. I am very impressed, (and humbled) with your skill in drawing these maps. Bravo!!!! Barry
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64523
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Thank you Barry! My parents taking me to Baja had a profound affect on me... Because of all the facinating rock specimens I found there, I first
wanted to become a geologist. By the time I was 14, I had loved maps so much (maps of Baja) that I decided to become a cartographer (map-maker). In
fact, I was taking geography courses in college. On a field trip to Death Valley, I met a girl... that is how I got into irrigation... That's another
story!
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
