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[*] posted on 7-8-2006 at 07:10 PM


Three hundred years ago the Ute Indians would take big chunks of salt from the shores of what is now Great Salt Lake, haul em up to the forest to entice the dear. Hence the name of the state capital, Salt Lick City. Not many people alive today know that.
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[*] posted on 7-8-2006 at 10:18 PM


Everytime I fill my truck with $3.20/ gallon diesel. When the meter reaches $120.00 I know I could of just driven past La Paz....
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[*] posted on 7-8-2006 at 10:32 PM


going downtown Oxnard for lunch..
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[*] posted on 7-8-2006 at 11:02 PM
When my truck is dirty


I can describe what is like to be in Baja,the close it's I can get is felling in control of my destination even do some times you start driving with no plan in mind, just follow the road to see what you will find at the end.If you like what you find you tell your friends about it.If you don't like it, you still tell your friends and explain to them that it was and adventure to get there and some time thats where the fun is..



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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 12:26 AM


[Edited on 7-9-2006 by Sallysouth]



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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 12:08 PM
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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 12:23 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by DanO
My truck covered with dust.



I don't know why but for some reason I like Dan Os the best.




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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 12:26 PM


BAJACAT sed about the same thing



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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 02:40 PM


I go paddleboarding every day out of the local harbor and it feels natural to say "hi" or wave to other paddlers, kayakers, sailors and even big boats who enthusiastically reciprocate the gesture. I don't experience this in any other aspect of suburbia-life.

I'm sure everyone has caught themselves starting to wave at a stranger when they first return home from Mexico, and at least out on the water I can keep a little of the feelling of Baja alive until I return again.



[Edited on 7-12-2006 by oladulce]
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[*] posted on 7-9-2006 at 06:31 PM


The price of a mango in Montana-- and it isn't nearly as good as a mango in Loreto!
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[*] posted on 7-10-2006 at 11:46 AM


Hearing a 4 cylinder car drive past me without a muffler:lol:
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[*] posted on 7-10-2006 at 12:49 PM
Guess where I just was....


We don't have to see anything, hear or smell anything to take us back to baja at any given point in time. We can be doing our daily tasks, ie washing dishes at the restaurant for example, or just driving down the road, to be all of a sudden far away, back in Baja, at home.

"Guess where I just was?" is a question we ask each other on a constant almost daily basis. I was just at the turn off to Caliveras from Santo Tomas yesterday. Today I was in San Ignacio at the cool waters under the palms. With us, our brains jump to places that live in our hearts at any given moment without anything sparking it. Does that make sense? It's in our blood.

On the other days when we're not mentally in Baja we have the "Wall of Shame" at the restaurant that we stare at when we're feeling homesick. It has come in handy more times than not. We are finding that Baja is a small world, a one way street. When customers come in, look at the wall and exclaim, 'Hey, I know that person!" or "I've been there before!" I realize at that point that our wall is serving it's purpose. The wall is growing and we're running out of room.

Guess where I just was? Sitting on the beach of Bahia, my chair under the water so that my chin is just grazing the surface, sunglasses on, wide brimmed hat, cold cerveza in hand, held above water level of course or else it would warm too quickly to the temp. of the Sea of Cortez......

The count down is on!

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[Edited on 7-11-2006 by BajaNomad]

[Edited on 11-7-2006 by Paulina]




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[*] posted on 7-10-2006 at 05:28 PM


Quote:
Thoughts/images of certain places?

Certain things?

Certain foods? Drinks? What?


Traveling south of San Francisco, my wife and I thought that the beachs of Sand City and Pacifica reminded us of Baja on the Pacific.

Our best fish and shrimp tacos and burritos outside of Baja have been bought at Dorados in Monterrey Park.

Dorado's Restaurant Review




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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 10:31 PM
Bruce let me clarify


Quote:
Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
BAJACAT sed about the same thing
When my truck is dirty with dust not (starbucks empty cup,seven 11 candy wrappers,jack in the CAJA miscellaneous items>;):lol::lol::lol:



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[*] posted on 7-11-2006 at 10:38 PM


There's a big difference in dirt from the States and dirt from Baja. AMEN!



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[*] posted on 7-12-2006 at 10:37 AM


Anytime the temp. here in Sedona, AZ, drops below 70 degrees, especially that first morning when you can feel the nip of fall in the air. Other than that almost every day.



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[*] posted on 7-12-2006 at 12:22 PM
The Smell of Smoke


The smell of a mesquite fire brings me to the deserts of Baja....

The smell of a driftwood fire on the beach, brings me to a baja beach.....
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[*] posted on 7-12-2006 at 10:56 PM


Every time we open our garage and see all the items that only get used when we are in Baja.



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[*] posted on 7-12-2006 at 10:57 PM


Each time we see an innovative way to make something out of something many of us would discard or not even begin to have thought of the alternate use.



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[*] posted on 7-17-2006 at 11:05 AM


HM - I' reminded everytime I feel for a CORONA, everytime I see a lemon, everytime I open my PC/LT and see the Baja Nomad Webpage, everytime I see the Hummingbird Close Up's I took on my last trip on my Desktop ( which I consider to put on Baja Nomad as soon as I've figured how to do), and everytime my broken heart is hurting!
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