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j&jinbaja
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The loss of JR, our good friend
My name is Jim. My wife Jeri and I have a place next to JR (jrbaja) and his girlfriend Carol in La Barca..
It is with my deepest regrets to inform everyone that JR passed away Saturday afternoon in a Rosarito hospital from complications probably related to
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). This is just a best guess, because we really don't know what the cause was.
I had the responsibility of helping place him on the ambulance gurney at his home to be moved to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing.
He subsequently slipped into a coma and died a few hours later. It appears to have been a merciful ending to the idealistic life that he lead.
We know he had a lot of friends that extended to this BajaNomad board that he dearly loved. We have enjoyed lurking and reading his tales of La Barca
and other writings. Maybe someday we can add a bit to what he started.
We met JR about a year and a half ago and enjoyed his wit, sense of humor and generosity. He definitely had a way about him and touched many lives
from California to La Paz. We feel priviledged and lucky to have known him.
Again, please accept our deepest sympathies to those of you that are in the same state of shock that we are enduring from this tragic news.
Jim and Jeri
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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Vaya Con Dios, JR... May you continue your dreams and efforts to help others from a higher place now!
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bajalou
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Location: South of the broder
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Wow - that's really Baja's loss-
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?\"
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bajajudy
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Registered: 10-4-2004
Location: San Jose del Cabo,BCS
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We will all miss him.
I, for one, am speechless.
Is there someone there for Carol?
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bajagrouper
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Posts: 964
Registered: 8-28-2003
Location: Rincon de Guayabitos, Nayarit, Mexico
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Mood: happy and retired
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Via con Dios, Amigo...
I hear the whales song
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Skeet/Loreto
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JR-
Rest in Peace!
Skeet/Loreto
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Bob H
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I'm pinching myself to see if I'm dreaming. I will never forget the day I met JR and shook his hand. What a huge shock this is. May you rest in
peace JR.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Cincodemayo
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Wow what a difference a few days make. Seems that a memorial Bamboo garden is in order for our amigo. Rest well JR....I will surely miss your posts
and pictures my friend. God Bless you.
Don\'t get mad...
Get EVEN.
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Keri
Super Nomad
Posts: 1393
Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: La Mision, Baja Norte
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Mood: muy contento
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Rest in Peace
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bajaden
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Registered: 4-7-2005
Location: Ensenada
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These words come hard for me. I feel a saddness and loss for someone I only knew from this board. I sensed his sincerity, anger, and frustration at
what I beleive, were failed exercises to him. He could provoke more responses than anyone else on this board. He made us uncomfortable. Just when
everyone was feeling that all was right with the world. Jr would come and stir the pot, ruffle the feathers, and generaly, rain on the parade. I, for
one, will miss him.
Who knows, maybe after a few days of trying to rearrange heaven, God may send him back.
Vios Con Dios, Jr.
At a feast of egos, everyone leave\'s hungry...
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JESSE
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Is this another gringo joke or is this actually true?
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rpleger
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Location: H. Mulegé, BCS
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Dido Bajaden............
JR could sure make us look at ourselves and what we were saying on this board.
Good luck where ever you are JR.
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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MrBillM
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Posts: 21656
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Out and About
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JR's Passing
I think that we should accept this as a sincere effort to make us aware of his death. believing (and hoping) that no one is so demented to make up
something like this. His illness would explain his absence recently from a forum that he delighted in.
Though he and I agreed on few things, he was a staunch defender of his vision of Baja and he was responsible for a lot of charitable actions aimed at
his Baja friends and neighbors.
May God bless and keep him.
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polloatician
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This is no Joke. JR Has been suffering for the last year. He hid his condition from this board, not his friends.
I will always remember his warm smile and his infectious laugh.
RIP amigo, you will be missed.
ME NO
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jerry
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well JR rest in peace. your passions for baja are well recognised and will live on have a good one
jerry and judi
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JZ
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Unbelievable  They don't make many like JR. I was hoping to meet him in person
someday. Very sad.
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Barry A.
Select Nomad
Posts: 10007
Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
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MrBillM-----I echo your thoughts completely----
------tho I never met him eyeball to eyeball, I did banter back and forth with him on this forum, and we shared many mutual "likes". JR was certainly
unique---------but, for sure, you cannot take all the "good he did" away from him.
I sure loved his photos, and the stories------I miss him already. RIP JR Barry
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bajapablo
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What a tremendous loss for this board, the people of baja, and the rest of his friends and family.
que Dios te cuida siempre JR.
\"changes it lattitudes, changes in attitudes\"
J.Buffet
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bajabeachgirl
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Registered: 12-12-2005
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JR
Hi...I'm Jeri, Jim's wife...I set up my own account so I could respond to your questions (I didn't know his password).
No...this is not a joke. I hope there aren't people out there who would actually write things like that and think it could possibly be funny.
JR's brother should have been down yesterday to help Carol with everything. We left Baja early yesterday morning. I will be calling her sometime
today to check in with her.
JR did send us the most beautiful sunset on Saturday. Jim will be posting it ASAP.
We miss you already JR...the world was a better place having you in it.
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Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
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I am truly saddened by this news . J.R.baja was a good friend 
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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