Barry A.
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looking for a similar "site" as Nomads for Sonora---
Does anybody know of a website like this NOMADS board that is concerned with Sonora rather than Baja? I cannot find what I am looking for with my
search engine.
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Bruce R Leech
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you will never find a site like this one
Bruce R Leech
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Baja Bernie
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Barry A
Ask OSO--if anyone knows he will. He has some really good stories of the mainland--I keep trying to get him to share them but he feels that this site
is dedicated to 'only' Baja and that is our loss because he is a wonderful story teller.
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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Oso
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Well, I just responded to Barry on U2U, and no, I don't know of a good one for Sonora. mexconnect.com has some good stuff on the mainland, but they
mainly concentrate on the "gringo enclaves" like Ajijic and San Miguel de Allende.
I've started looking around and I did stumble across this on a Sailing oriented website:
http://www.latitudemexico.com/modules/news/article.php?story...
This is a real bummer, no more free "Sonora Only" permits. You can still go as far as Rocky Point without the temp. importation, but if you want to
go to San Carlos it's $29 to Banjercito.
(Seems Sonora lost track of some 25,000 vehicles and faces HUGE fines from the federales.)
Bernie, as I mentioned to you, the only half-assed serious attempt at a short story I ever did was "Huivulai" on the old Amigos board. It wasn't
"Baja", but it was about an island in the Cortez. If people want to read it, I'll try and dig it up. Just tell me where to put it.
(Wrong, actually the sun does shine there when I'm sunbathing.) 
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Natalie Ann
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Oso - Please reprint your story, I'd love to read it.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Barry A.
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Thanks to Oso and Bernie
Appreciate your help-----I got the u2u from Oso-----Strange that there does not appear to be one.
I am interested in the coast from Puerto Penasco to Kino Bay where I want to provide support to my Kayak friends. They already did the stretch from El
Golfo de Santa Clara to Penasco last year.
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JZ
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Barry: here is one for San Carlos: http://www.sancarlosmexico.com/forum.htm. It is new and the volume is lite, but pretty good. Most people are from AZ and many live in San
Carlos. I'm sure they can help you with questions about Kino.
Oso: Sonora Only is up and running. It was halted for a couple weeks in January, but is back. It looks like there is a very good chance that the
free zone will extend all the way to San Carlos in the very near future. I understand they are under construction of a k21 like facility already down
there.
[Edited on 5-21-2005 by JZ]
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Kimpatsu_Hekigan
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More Sonora sites
Here are a couple of more resources for southern Sonora:
Viva San Carlos Bulletin Board
Alamos News group on Yahoo!
There used to be a great site out of Bahia Kino, but it disappeared late last year (or at least, I haven't been able to find its successor)...
HTH,
K.H.
Re: Moving the "Frontera" Zone south of San Carlos
This plan is apparently still on track, but according to an article that appeared in late April in El Imparcial (the state-wide newspaper
published in Hermosillo), the Sonoran State government and federal Aduana (customs) agency are still haggling over where exactly to site the
checkpoint. Rumor has it that the personnel staffing the current Km 21 checkpoint south of Nogales are not happy about this move and have reportedly
been taking it out on tourists with more rigorous inspections. For what it's worth...
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JZ
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The Sea of Cortez forum on www.trailersailor.com is quite active. It has lots of people out of San Carlos.
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Sonora Wind
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Contact Club Deportivo In Kino. Tony runs the Club, but the guy who can hook you up would be Carl Overcast. I'm not where I can get the phone
numbers right now. If you think they can help I'll send them to you tomorrow.
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capt. mike
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OsO - yeah man - i want to read it
so can you email to me as a MS Word doc, or??
print and fax - fax, hell - whatever.
and i'll reciprocate with one of mine that i do not post here, it's rated "R" for ribald...
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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rogerj1
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Speaking of Sonora.....
I came across this web site for a proposed development in Sonora.
http://www.libertycove.net/default.asp
This is a project from a genius or a lunatic.
Check out the race track idea.
[Edited on 5-22-2005 by rogerj1]
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Baja Bernie
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OSO
THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT I COULD FIND THAT MIGHT GIVE YOU SOME DIRECTION ON WHERE TO POST YOUR STORIES. These were posted in the Announcement
section. Scroll down.
Perhaps Doug would like to give some further direction on this---I know he would not want to miss your stories either.
Eli
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posted on 2-2-2005 at 07:34
Speaking of which Doug;
I have often wondered if my post really fit on the general discussion board, or should we move me else where since I seldom actually address Baja Ca.
in general. Some times my posts are traval related, (outside of Baja), sometimes they are about art and humanites, and well you
know...........geezzzzzzzz. What would you sugget?
Saludos, Sara
David K
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posted on 2-2-2005 at 07:40
Maybe a place called 'Personal or Human Interest Stories' could be for yours and Mike Humfreville's tales. Otherwise keep posting on the General board
so nobody misses them!
"So Much Baja, So Little Time..."
See my Baja notebook: http://community-2.webtv.net/drdrip/notes
Visit my Baja web site: http://VivaBaja.com
Eli
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posted on 2-2-2005 at 08:32
Thanks David, that was a real nice thing to say.
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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neilmac
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Here's a link to a Puerto Penasco, Sonora forum:
http://www.rockypointonline.com/RPForum
Neil
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