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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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Age of constibuters to this board
As the only 'normal' Nomad around I thought it would be fun if everyone would post their age, if you are not afraid, and any other bull pucky that you
want the rest of us to know--like how long you have been visiting OR living in Baja.
I'll start--68 years young--had a place in La Salina for over 25 years and just recently sold it (the worst thing I have ever done) so I could be
closer to the VA hospital (joking). Still lovin' and wandering to Baja after over 45 years.
I even write poems and other junk about it.
Woops! Lurkers sure are welcome!!
[Edited on 5-21-2005 by Baja Bernie]
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Packoderm
Super Nomad
Posts: 2116
Registered: 11-7-2002
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I'm forty one, but I haven't been constibuting for nearly that long.
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woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15937
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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Mood: Everchangin'
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first trip to baja was in 9th grade. went to popotla instead of school....
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64480
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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We did this once before Bernie... it was fun for some...
Me: David Kier age 47 1/2  (48 in Sept.)... First Baja trip in 1965 with mom and
dad to Gonzaga Bay via Jeep. First trip without parents in 1974 at age 16 to Gonzaga Bay (because it is THAT good and the road was that bad!!!)
Because Bernie is so cool I am including a cartoon from his second book... I
think I am sending those two poor Nomads off to the 'Lost Mission'!
[Edited on 5-21-2005 by David K]
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Eli
Super Nomad
Posts: 1471
Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Mood: Some times Observing, sometimes Oblivious.
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I am now logging 54 years on plant earth.
My Papa brought me to Baja for the first time in 1958.
From that time to date the confusion insued as to if I am Sally, so sez my birth certificate and most gringos. Or is it Sara, as the folks of Mexico
have called me every since tha first walk on the beach with Papa Fernandez. You see, Sali gets you in call kinds of confusion, like in sali forth or
do you mean Sally the person, sigh...........Sara
[Edited on 5-21-2005 by Eli]
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bajalou
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4459
Registered: 3-11-2004
Location: South of the broder
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72 this week.
First time to baja was the required trip to Tijuana from Naval Hospital in San Diego in 1952. Then a few trips in mid 60's while I lived in So Cal
returning in 91 or 2. Moved to Baja full time in 1995.
And still here-----------
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 |
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wornout
Senior Nomad
Posts: 595
Registered: 10-24-2004
Location: San Felipe, Baja California
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Mood: No Bad Days
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60, first time to Baja was by cruise ship in the mid-80's. (I don't count the trip to TJ when in high school in 1963). Said I would never be back to
Baja. Retired in 1998 and moved here to San Felipe.
This Space Available, E-Mail Me If Interested.
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Tommy A
Nomad
Posts: 221
Registered: 5-19-2004
Location: Manhattan Beach, Ca
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Mood: Relaxed
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49yrs feel like 25 act like 15.
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Oso
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2637
Registered: 8-29-2003
Location: on da border
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Mood: wait and see
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Big six-oh next month.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
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Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
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55 travailing Mexico since 1957. in Mulege almost 16 years. never going to retire.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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pokey
Nomad
Posts: 199
Registered: 5-20-2005
Location: ensenada
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Mood: sun burned
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I'm 36 . I first started coming down to Baja inbetween fishing seasons when I was a commercial fisherman up in Alaska about 9 years ago. You now how
it is after 3 or so months on a boat up in the gulf of AK or the Bering. A person will do anything and go anywhere to get warm again. Eventually I
met my future wife in Ensenada moved north, settled down and had two daughters. After seven years of that my wife was desperate to be in warmer
climes and suggested that we move closer to her family So here we are!!
We've been here less than a month and most of that time was spent looking for a house to rent and moving our stuff down from Oregon. Moving is
always a pain in the you know what but moving out of country was very stresssful and I'm so happy to be done with it Now I have time to get out and explore this amazing place.
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fdt
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4059
Registered: 9-7-2003
Location: Tijuana, Baja California
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Mood: Yeah, what if it all goes right
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47 and been in baja since birth
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Neal Johns
Super Nomad
Posts: 1687
Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: Lytle Creek, CA
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Mood: In love!
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First trip Thanksgiving 1977
Jack Smith's area (La Bocana) and down coast in an FJ-40, rubber chicken dinner with Mr. Gomez's (his landlord) pigs.
Jack who? you say? Read his book; God and Mr. Gomez
The roads are terrible, the people make me feel inferior, I'm never going back ..........Trust me!
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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JZ
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9233
Registered: 10-3-2003
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36 - first trip with parents in the early 80's.
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elgatoloco
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4323
Registered: 11-19-2002
Location: Yes
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4/29/58
First trip 1959.
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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Barry A.
Select Nomad
Posts: 10007
Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
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Mood: optimistic
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I am 67, retired for 9+ years, and loving every min. of it. I lived my first 30 years only 11 miles from Tiajuana, so I will not count our many trips
to TJ, Ensenada, and Rosarita Beach when a kid with my Mom and her friends. In 1955 I made my first big trip in Baja to the plateau of the San Pedro
Martir with my aunt and Bud Bernhard (and others), where we wandered about for 8 days in the high country, with horses out of Melings Ranch-----we
walked, and the horses carried all our gear. I was hooked!!! Been going back ever since. My Mom, a Navy widow, and her sister, a single girl (never
married), took me all over Baja as a big kid (15 to 19) in their International Travelall 4x4----what an experience. My Mom and her sister owned a
second home in Punta Banda right on the ocean for 13 years, selling out in 1980. That's about it.
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Gypsy Jan
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4275
Registered: 1-27-2004
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Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
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Neal, I remember Jack Smith, too
Age: Old enough to know better, but then again, maybe not
Jack Smith's books about his adventures in Baja lit a fire inside me to find out more about this amazing, miraculous place and Fred Hoctor's columns
and books added fuel to the fire.
I have owned several copies of all their books and lent/given all of them out.
I wish that they weren't out of print.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Neal Johns
Super Nomad
Posts: 1687
Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: Lytle Creek, CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: In love!
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Over 150 used copies of God and Mr. Gomez cheap at http://makeashorterlink.com/?C12D23D1B
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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Keri
Super Nomad
Posts: 1393
Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: La Mision, Baja Norte
Member Is Offline
Mood: muy contento
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Jan ,Bernie has Fred Hoctors
Books for sale on his website. All the money goes to Freds wife Sylvia none to Bernie. He won't tell you that but I will. . Buy one for yourself and a
few more to give to friends.God and Mr Gomez is in reprint and I saw it at Discover Baja awhile back. Hope this helps fill your bookshelves again,k
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dug
Junior Nomad
Posts: 59
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Oceanside
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I'm 57. First trip to Baja was driving to Bahia de Los Angeles during Spring Break my Senior year of high school, 1965.
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