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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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What's the craziest thing you ever did in Baja?
Okay, we've got a collective 1,000 years of Baja travel here. I want to hear some funny campfire stories!
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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I went on a 4WD road through the San Juans with my friend Andrew. We left the wives to take nature photos. Once we got way down the road, a truck
full of men guarding their "Drip Irrigation Fields" appeared causing Suzanne and Gretchen to have to hide in the bushes. Andrew and I returned 15
min. later and heard the amazing story. 30 min. later while splashing in a waterfall near the dirt road, the same men reappeared (5 or so in the
pickup bed), but were greeted by Andrew and I waving at the men, frustrating them enough to leave immediately.
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Sharksbaja
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Registered: 9-7-2004
Location: Newport, Mulege B.C.S.
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Bought a house on the rio.... 
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
Nomads\' Sunsets
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FARASHA
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Hey, that beats definatley Ken's story Corky!!
Good to see your humor is still there! 
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FARASHA
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Craziest thing in BAJA was for ME to collect once a week (or so)SCORPIONS in the house I stayed in last time.
Put them in a tupperware box and took close-up's.
Then releasing them soemwhere in the wild.
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Diver
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Here is a reprint of a story I posted a while back. This happened 3 years ago. When we got to El Requeson last year, my wife met some people on the
beach that told her the story of the crazy gringo with the shovel. I am famous !!
Picture this;
A somewhat overweight, gray-bearded gringo awakens in his camper to the sound of his wife saying that someone is outside and she thinks they stole our
gas can....
Picture this;
A somewhat overweight, gray-bearded gringo in night shorts, pajama top and slippers running (well kinda) half way around El Requeson carrying a
folding camp shovel....
Picture this;
A somewhat overweight, gray-bearded, out-of-breath gringo stops and realizes "What the heck am I doing ?" as the three banditos notice him
approaching. They jump into their pick-up and speed by (could have hit me but probably realized that my bulk would damge their little truck) and
received a camp shovel in the windshield for their trouble. Luckily, they elected to keep going, so there is still a somewhat overweight, gray-bearded
gringo to tell the story !!
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Paulina
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I ran a road block in El Rosario
But I don't have the story on my computer anymore. Maybe Bedman has it?
P<*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Tomas Tierra
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Location: oxnard, ca
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Drove at night once...
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Mexitron
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Registered: 9-21-2003
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Mood: Happy!
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What happens in Baja stays in Baja...
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
What happens in Baja stays in Baja... |
Hahahaahahaaaaaaaaaa  
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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David K
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Lorenzo de Baja and I hiked up to the Agua Caliente/ Valle Chico hot springs Dec. 31, 2000 and came across a large 'drip irrigation project' that we
called a 'cilantro farm' LOL!
The two workers tending to the operation (a mile up a canyon from where a 4WD could drive) did not kill us, as we first feared... but did ask if we
could take them to San Felipe that evening for the New Years Eve fiesta!!!
Photos at: http://www.vivabaja.com/baja_2001
[Edited on 9-21-2006 by David K]
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Al G
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Location: Todos Santos/Full time for now...
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Mood: Wondering what is next???
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Lorenzo de Baja and I hiked up to the Agua Caliente/ Valle Chico hot springs Dec. 31, 2000 and came across a large 'drip irrigation project' that we
called a 'cilantro farm' LOL!
The two workers tending to the operation (a mile up a canyon from where a 4WD could drive) did not kill us, as we first feared... but did ask if we
could take them to San Felipe that evening for the New Years Eve fiesta!!!
Photos at: http://www.vivabaja.com/baja_2001
[Edited on 9-21-2006 by David K] |
Been wondering what I would say if I did the same. I was thinking "Nice parsley patch" , but I sure cilantro would work better.
[Edited on 9-21-2006 by Al G]
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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Barry A.
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Location: Redding, Northern CA
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I agree with Mexitron-------------
----------what happens in Baja, stays in Baja
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Axel
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Registered: 2-9-2006
Location: oceanside
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1. Took my ex-brother in law and his buddies on a surf trip. They were Navy seals just back from Desert Storm. They brought there guns and attitudes
with them. Absolute nightmare.
2. Drove over what looked to be dry mud. I noticed that I was bogging down so I went straight for safety. My knuckle head friend decided to play in
it. We spent most of the day getting him out.
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David K
Honored Nomad
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Go down (and back up) 'The Widowmaker'!
Baja Mur was on a motorcycle and I was on a quad, May 1, 1999... Pretty scary stuff...
Coming back up, we both wiped out... got bloody on the rocks!
I couldn't wait to go back... it was awesome!
Doing it in my Tacoma was much better than on the quad!
Here is a photo of Chicago Ross's Jeep follwing me down, about where my blood was shed 4 years before!
This is just over one mile before reaching Mision Santa Maria, between Santa Ynez and Gonzaga Bay...
My truck at the mission...
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dravnx
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Was camping on the beach at Juncalito one year with my buddy Jed. Spent a few days fishing, diving, drinking etc. This guy John shows up, sets up camp
next to us and we kind of adopts him. He doesn't have much food so we end up feeding him for a few days. One night he runs into town and comes back
with the cheapest tequila money can buy. As a result, I did what is now called sand swimming, thats trying to crawl on all fours in the sand without
any brain function. Fast forward 5 years, same beach, same date (New Years Eve) and me and Jed now have our wives with us. We're sitting around the
campfire, dinner is just about ready to be served and Jed is telling the story about John, cheap takillya and sand swimming when up walks someone into
our camp and says "Hey hows everyone doing"? Not too strange as it is NYE in Juncalito. The stranger walks closer to the fire and now I can see who it
is.......John. This time we supply the tequila and we all have a great laugh and a good meal to celebrate the new year.
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toneart
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Like Sharks, I got my feet wet in realestate en el rio de Mulege. I'll be there next week to play in the mud baths.
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windgrrl
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It's a 3-way tie between
...the time I noticed the military was scoping us while we were kayaking
...the time we were getting our kidneys readjusted hurtling down an arroyo washboard shortcut with an intoxicated taxi driver
...the first time I broke the margarita mind barrier.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8923
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
What happens in Baja stays in Baja... |
I've got one of those...and it happened in front of a Tijuana cop! Ppl still can't believe it when I tell them...
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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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Picked up a Mexican hitchiker
and had him get in the back of my Toyota p/u with a shell had him climb in the back because the front seat was full of stuff. Down the road I looked
in the rearview mirror and saw him putting his rifle back together (guess it was in the sack he carried. Anyway, I slammed on the brakes, jumped out,
grabbed the barrel and hauled his ass out and broke the rifle down again and hauled ass.
That was back in about 1970 and I never picked up anybody again--in Baja or anywhere else.
Yeah! she still be fun!
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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