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chuckie
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Nebraska.............
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bajasusan/a
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thanks for the post, shari. gonna get back this summer, i swear!
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shari
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believe me Fatboy...you would NOT wanted to have driven to Asuncion before it was paved...it was the road from hell with very high bad washboard...not
a nice dirt road at all. There are still lots of great dirt to explore around these parts once you get in the area! You will enjoy the coast dirt road
between Abreojos and Asuncion then out to Tortugas.
The Arce clan is very widespread in this area...probably the biggest name round here all stemming back from a Spanish cavalry dude who guarded the San
Ignacio mission who married an indigenous woman and populated the whole area with Arces!!! Many of them have blue eyes! There are lots of them who
still are horsemen and rancheros, and they are in BOLA, Rosalillita, Catavina, GN, Sta.Rosalia, San Lucas Cove, San Ignacio, Abreojos, Asuncion etc
etc.
Bajasusana...look forward to your return to your duties!!!
[Edited on 7-20-2015 by shari]
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norte
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Quote: Originally posted by shari  | believe me Fatboy...you would NOT wanted to have driven to Asuncion before it was paved...it was the road from hell with very high bad washboard...not
a nice dirt road at all. There are still lots of great dirt to explore around these parts once you get in the area! You will enjoy the coast dirt road
between Abreojos and Asuncion then out to Tortugas.
The Arce clan is very widespread in this area...probably the biggest name round here all stemming back from a Spanish cavalry dude who guarded the San
Ignacio mission who married an indigenous woman and populated the whole area with Arces!!! Many of them have blue eyes! There are lots of them who
still are horsemen and rancheros, and they are in BOLA, Rosalillita, Catavina, GN, Sta.Rosalia, San Lucas Cove, San Ignacio, Abreojos, Asuncion etc
etc.
Bajasusana...look forward to your return to your duties!!!
[Edited on 7-20-2015 by shari] |
THey are all related? hmmmmm.
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AKgringo
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Road between Asucion and Abreojos
Shari, I can see where that would be a great road, when it is graded, but it is hell when it is washboarded!
I drove that section headed south last October, and gritted my teeth for 50 miles. It was a 4 or 40 road (mph) and I wound up shaking the spare tire
carrier off of my utility trailer. I drove over 500 miles of back roads and off road, and it was the worst of the trip.
I would sure try to get a recent road report before sending someone down that path!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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durrelllrobert
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Same as SoCa until 1961
| Quote: Originally posted by shari | On our way home from the beach swim yesterday we came across this sight.
It was a weird garbage dump as there was nothing but old...real old cans. Juan explained that it was the dump for the original Cantina and the cans
were over 50 years old! There were thousands of cans...a whole lotta cerveza was drank there! Nothing but a piece of flat bare ground where the bar
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This beach was called "Tin Can" beach prior to be cleaned up in 1961. Today it is Bola Chica State Beach and is adjacent to the city of Hunington
Beach
Bob Durrell
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shari
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AKgringo...you are right but sounds like that is what Fatboy likes! that road is still 10 times better than the old road from Vizcaino to
Asuncion...so you can imagine what that one was like! Road tolerances are a slippery slope...one person thinks it's just fine and another thinks it's
horrible!
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Fatboy
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that road is still 10 times better than the old road from Vizcaino to Asuncion
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The first time in that area was about 16 years ago and on the drive from Vizcaino to Bahia Tortugas we broke a front shock on the jeep and a few miles
later I slammed on the brakes and skidded to a stop.
'My ex-wife asked me, what is wrong?!?!?'
'Nothing, I said, but see the that wrecked car?'
--Now the 'wrecked car' I was referring to was upside down, burned, no glass (the roof might have been caved in) with no tires and all rusty.--
'That is a jeep Cherokee, maybe it has the piece I need to fix this front shock.'
Much to my dismay it did not have the piece we needed so it was onto Bahia Tortugas where we spent a pleasant afternoon with a local mechanic trying
to repair the Jeep.
My children played with his children while I attempted to explain what was wrong (I have a horrible ear for language and still only know a few words
of Spanish and always mispronounce most of them.) using a Spanish to English dictionary, and lots of hand symbols that made me look like someone with
a bad case of Tourettes syndrome.
Finally after he understood what was required he then proceeded to drive me around town to try to find something that would work.
After the Jeep was fixed we were off to see how close we could get to Malarrimo Beach which was a trip full of adventure in itself even though we
never even came close to that infamous beach.
The Federales looking at us suspiciously as they explain this is not the road to Malarrimo beach, not even close.
The trade of some beer for some lobsters.
The visit by the local law who asked what we were doing and warned us about driving on the beach due to spots of 'quicksand' which I stupidly ignored
and almost lost the jeep to the sea.
The dead whale on the beach and the smell that came from it along with the 10 or so coyotes that came running out from the inside of the dead whale as
we drove past.
Good times!!! 
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shari
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yessiree...sounds like a typical adventure on the midwest coast all right!
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