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bajalera
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Beercan, this is for you
"you must not read much"--beercan
Yeah, right. I don't read much.
Baja California on the right
Mexico on the left
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\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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bajalera
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Here are a few more. The books down the hall and the wall of food-related and cooking books would probably be overkill, so I'm not including those.
[Edited on 10-1-2005 by bajalera]
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Phil S
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Wow Bajalera. Any chance you've got an extra copy of The Enchanted Vagabundo, written by Don Lamb, maybe written l937 Phil S.
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bajajudy
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Lera
You must love books as much as I do. Looks like you could start your own book business
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frizkie
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Phil
Do you by chance mean "Enchanted Vagabonds"
by author Dana Lamb?
You can order that book online through Barnes & Noble
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Publish date: 1938
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bajajudy
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That is one cool book.
Those ladies sure were adventurers, werent they?
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Sharksbaja
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I bow down to the literate. Boy do I feel left out. I know who the history buff on Baja is. Can you imagine the (huge) "political reference" he must
have?
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beercan
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Thanks lera,
looks like you may be close to me in the reading dept.
We're probably around the same age.
When I was in elementry school in Alabama, we only had a library truck that visited about once a week--! was the biggest user of books !! During high
school in Arizona, the librarian and I got to be very good friends !!
Actually, I was referring to the thread and the adjacent one that quoted loony mom Cindy. Didn't intent any aspersions on your reading habits .
* libs, all about choice until you choose different
* B. Hussein Obama - an Empty Suit for Empty Minds.
* Annoy a liberal - Work hard and be happy!
* Arguing facts & truth to libs is like bringing a warm smile to a gun fight.
* Lets win the War on Terror
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jrbaja
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Good grief maN
This is no place for civility!
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bajalera
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Always nice to meet another bibliophile, beercan.
But you may want to revise that age assessment. I'm older than Skeet, who claims to be older than dirt.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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beercan
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At 62 , I am younger than a lot of dirt.
But old enough and mean to hold my on in the dirt throwing here  a bouts !!!
* libs, all about choice until you choose different
* B. Hussein Obama - an Empty Suit for Empty Minds.
* Annoy a liberal - Work hard and be happy!
* Arguing facts & truth to libs is like bringing a warm smile to a gun fight.
* Lets win the War on Terror
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David K
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Lera, GREAT library shot! Wow... I have most of my Baja collection jammed into one bookcase... but there is some overflow of magazines and maps in
another part of my home.
Those interested in older Baja books, we have a thread where I posted photos of many of the old guidebooks and some others... Here's the link to Part
1, of 5... http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=5604
The Baja Cactus library collection is growing nicely and they will be available for research in the near future... in El Rosario. The custom bookcase
is already in the motel's lobby.
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Neal Johns
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1. Mexico left, Baja right, just like Lera!
[Edited on 10-2-2005 by Neal Johns]
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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bajaden
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalera
Always nice to meet another bibliophile, beercan.
But you may want to revise that age assessment. I'm older than Skeet, who claims to be older than dirt. |
Alright, number 1. If your going to start using big words I'm done here. Number 2. Im 64, and I don't like any reference to dirt. Number 3. I don't
like being humiliated with a gaudy picture of your books. Especially when all I have is one shelf, of which one half are fishing books about baja.
Maybe I could rent them from you. Just for picture taking and such.
Pretty impressive lera. Did You ever make a list of what you have or what you would recommend as mandatory reading?
Another, be still my heart. Jr and the word civil in the same sentence. The world is going to hell.......
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MrBillM
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The Book Baseline
I, too, own a lot of books and I guess I could take some digital pics to join in on the one-up competition. In my case, I'd have to take photos in
two different houses and two different garages. Is that legal ? What's the prize ?
Those are some impressive collections (quantity, anyway) and I'm sure that, like me, all of you have read at least part of each and every one of them.
However, I'm not sure that owning books is an indicator of knowledge or intellect.
When I first came to Percebu, the only fulltime neighbor in the camp was just across the road from me, a retired Army Sergeant. His book collection
was the most extensive I had ever seen and he continually added to it with each trip to the U.S., browsing one book store after another. Using that
standard he was, no doubt, the SUPREME intellect.
Unfortunately, he was also a Crazy Loon. For fifteen years, I could look forward to his ramblings everyday I was in camp, except for those days he
decided I was one of the enemy and avoided me. He finally went totally berserk in a dispute with the landlord and got into his truck one night and
drove off, leaving his house, contents and other vehicles behind, never to be heard from again. His books are now distributed all over the camp,
including our place. His house was finally bulldozed a number of years back. I wonder if he settled somewhere else and went back to volume book
buying.
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jrbaja
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Something tells me Bill
that when you first moved to Percebu, Lera had already seen more of Baja and made more rural friends than any of us ever will. One of the advantages
of being an adventuress with a professional adventuring husband.
She just happens to like books too.
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MrBillM
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And The Winner Is ..............................
Like I said, What's the prize for the winner of this competition that others seem so fascinated with winning ? A Bamboo chicken-coop ?
Heck, Lera probably has made more "rural" friends in Southern California than I have and I was born there. I could care less how many friends I make
anywhere or isn't that evident ?
I guess if there are going to be added points for making friends and kissing babies, I have absolutely no chance of being competitive so I won't
bother photographing my books. I'm devastated to be out of the running. Boo Hoo, Woe is Me.
p.s. The downside to having been around so long "adventuring" is that, statisically, I'm probably going to still be adventuring when the older sages
are maggot bait.
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jrbaja
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No prizes involved
I just think it's cool that some of us got to do the adventurin before the condos, tourists and suvs overran the place.
No need to get hostile there tough guy
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bajaden
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
Like I said, What's the prize for the winner of this competition that others seem so fascinated with winning ? A Bamboo chicken-coop ?
Heck, Lera probably has made more "rural" friends in Southern California than I have and I was born there. I could care less how many friends I make
anywhere or isn't that evident ?
I guess if there are going to be added points for making friends and kissing babies, I have absolutely no chance of being competitive so I won't
bother photographing my books. I'm devastated to be out of the running. Boo Hoo, Woe is Me.
p.s. The downside to having been around so long "adventuring" is that, statisically, I'm probably going to still be adventuring when the older sages
are maggot bait.
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One of my friends once asked me how I would like to be remembered. I replyed that I wanted my headstone to read
" He had a lot of friends "
I value my worth in life, not by money or things that I own,or places that I have been. I value it by the joy of having known so many wonderful
people. People from whom I have derived who I'am as a person. Perhaps, never having a father or mother and being raised in catholic hotels makes me
more appreciative of the affection of friends.
Im talking about people who give of themselves as a gift and expect nothing in return. I hope you haven't missed out on that Bill.
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Dave
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I'll trade you some books for the fedora on top of the bookshelf. What size is it?
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