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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A damp Baja Hello
April 6th was my last post and after that I found myself cut off from all of my friends on this board. I worried so, because I had felt so connected
to so many of you in this place and time. I shuttered to, when I received the message?you are not logged in and there is a problem with your
password, Over, over, and over again. Fear invaded my self satisfaction. I was cut lose from my ability to made myself heard by those I cared for.
Not crying, but very sorryful in my banishment. Where were those who seemed to care. Nothing! No acknowledgement of my absence.
Reading your posts and wishing to expound on the feelings that they aroused in me.
Unable, thwarted, disillusioned, saddened and frustrated in my inability to say----anything!
Paranoid, and getting worse. Why was I cut off?had I offended someone?what!
What would happen to my most cherished, ?Normal? Nomad title. Would I ever find my way back.
Thank God, that Doug held my hand as I made my way, silently, through the darkness and back to the people who mean so much to me. I believe that you
all know who you are
Damn it was only 7 days that I was unable to communicate with the Baja people whom I rely on to maintain the little sanity that I have left.
The problem turned out to be that my computer calendar had me living in the month of December 2006. Now! I am sure about why I hate Christmas?that is
aside from the fact that when I was growing up we were so poor that one Christmas I received a pair of shoe laces as my gift. I still have the
dictionary that my mother saved green stamps to purchase. It is right alongside the hundred plus books, that allow me to escape, to my favorite
place??..Baja.
So glad to be back!
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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Diver
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4729
Registered: 11-15-2004
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7 days !! Wow Bernie, how could you stand it ?? 
Glad you're back.
Greenstamps bought my first bicycle.
I still remember sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table licking and sticking the stamps in those books. Great memories.
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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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welcome back Baja Bernie we missed you.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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Osprey
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3694
Registered: 5-23-2004
Location: Baja Ca. Sur
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Bernie, welcome home. On my birthday once I got an extra helping of wieney water. My mother was a maid for rich people who would give us the water
when they boiled hotdogs. We lived for many years on just wieney water.
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bajajudy
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6886
Registered: 10-4-2004
Location: San Jose del Cabo,BCS
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Welcome back Bernie
We used to mostly get small kitchen appliances with our green stamps. Diver, my mother let me use a sponge to paste our in the books.
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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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my grandma used to slip me a few green stamps and i'd "buy" a hotwheels car. still have one called "sandcrab"- a dune buggy!
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64492
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Online
Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Welcome back Bernie!
Baja Nomad is about friends helping friends, afterall! 
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bajalera
Super Nomad
Posts: 1875
Registered: 10-15-2003
Location: Santa Maria CA
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Useful experience! Now you can write a book about being marooned without access to BajaNomad.
\"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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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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I'll buy that book! (if it's written by Bernie)
I need a new book to read on the other side of the world from Baja. Maid Marian is forcing me to go with her to Oz outback on the other side of the
world soon for a month and a half. Will I have to turn the book upside down to read it? Do they speak English? (I have an American/Oz dictionary
ordered. :lol
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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bajalou
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4459
Registered: 3-11-2004
Location: South of the broder
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Do you have OziExplorer? - probably manditory to get in country. We'll all be concerned until we have a trip report.
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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Tomas Tierra
Super Nomad
Posts: 1281
Registered: 3-23-2005
Location: oxnard, ca
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Mood: Tengo Flojera
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Neal, that dictionary won't work..You won't believe some of the things you will hear!! It's like being in backwoods Kentucky, but with a slight
English twang....
The best book I found to try and figure some of it out is "The best of Aussie slang" by John Blackman.. Good Luck!
Have a great trip m m m m m mate!
Also, wait until you see some of the Toyotas over there!! We could learn a little..
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Tomas Tierra
Super Nomad
Posts: 1281
Registered: 3-23-2005
Location: oxnard, ca
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Mood: Tengo Flojera
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OOps.... Sorry for the Hi jack Bernie..Welcome back!! Couldn't imagine a week without this place....I'm truly addicted (just ask my Wife!)
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Paula
Super Nomad
Posts: 2219
Registered: 1-5-2006
Location: Loreto
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Hola Bernie!
Glad you are back, it would be hard to have a week without Nomads to make you laugh or scream!well, mostly smile or
Judy, some day I'll tell you a sad sponge/stamp story-- it's WAY off topic...
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thebajarunner
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3687
Registered: 9-8-2003
Location: Arizona....."Free at last from crumbling Cali
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Mood: muy amable
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It is the spelling...
Bernie,
The real reason Doug shut you off is your spelling.
You can shudder
You can stutter
You cannot shutter.....
Now about that unused dictionary.......
(just kidding, folks, Bernie and I have a thing about the English language and how to misapply it)
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