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Sharksbaja
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JR
Happy Birthday JR.
Lost but not forgotten.
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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rts551
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Happy birthday.
I miss his perspective on Baja.
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Diver
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Good thoughts, Sharks.
He is still remembered.
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bajamigo
Super Nomad
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Registered: 6-17-2006
Location: Punta Banda, BC
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Mood: hubimos llegado
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I didn't know the man--my loss. But his words live on. I was particularly struck by one of his posts that helped me answer the self-posed question,
what the hell am I doing here? Here it is:
That Real Baja Feel
For many starts at the border. The shoulders feel less weight, the anticipation of things known, or unkown that are about to happen, the stories
previously read or heard, true or untrue. You are now in a different world. Disneyland/Las Vegas but different. This kind of entertainment is for
those of a different cut.
When you realize that you would rather head south rather than go to Las Vegas, Disneyland, Family Get Togethers, Work, you begin to see things a
little differently. You have been hit. Not your fault but you realize that Ma Nature has something to do with it, smiling faces seem to be contagius,
and food tastes better than it ever has.
So you keep coming back. And then it hit's.
It's a feeling of "Cool". "Well, I think I am so cool with my Baja experiences that Baja doesn't start at the border anymore but Maneadero, El
Rosario, wherever."
And living in Rosarito, it did used to take until El Rosario before the wild Baja feeling hit and the weight was lifted. I think it has to do with
freedom.
But, this too changes. After traveling the peninsula a bunch, spending parts of the year in the south, and parts up here, I experience that same
"excitement" heading back north to Rosarito.
There is just as much thrill going from the wilds of Tijuana/Rosarito to the wilds of San Bartolo/San Evaristo as there is on the return trip. That's
because they are different. But, way entertaining no matter which "wilds " you end up in.
I wouldn't trade for anything! Thank you Baja!!
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Sharksbaja
Elite Nomad
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Location: Newport, Mulege B.C.S.
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He sometimes gave me pause
A passionate soul who gave some of his time and love to those not fortunate or privy to the 20th century.
His attitude tho sometimes cruel to his fellow Nomads was, let's say, pointed with truth and dipped in wisdom.
His undying love for Baja and it's people always struck a sweet chord with me. RIP JR.
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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vgabndo
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3461
Registered: 12-8-2003
Location: Mt. Shasta, CA
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Mood: Checking-off my bucket list.
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I have, of late, become enamored with the concept of FIERCE COMPASSION. It is, IMJ, something like "tough love" but certainly different. I am
learning from my experiences that I often don't appreciate the voices coming from these sources until they are silenced. D E P, JR
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Lindalou
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Registered: 1-12-2004
Location: Punta Banda Baja
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I miss JR too. We emailed back and forth a couple of times about him helping me find someone to reupholster my motorhome when we got to Ensenada. He
died before I got to meet him, which I was looking very forward to.
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Santiago
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He used to p*ss me off with his "chicken coopers" rants but over time I think I started to get it - never having met him made it a longer process as
those that did always had good things to say.
Not that it matters to anyone else but Ski Baja's #1 on my all-time-posters list and the funny thing is that #2, if he were with us, would be really
be bugged. They would often go at it.....
Think "Dennis vs. Gull" but on 'droids.
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Von
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Location: Poway-Rosarito
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Feliz Cumpleanos mi amigo...I was just down there in La BArca today.....I know Carol moved to Castillos del mar about a mile north of us.
READY SET.....................
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Ken Bondy
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He was really an interesting guy. Once, when talking about his bamboo projects in a post, he made a statement that bamboo was stronger than steel. I
did a little research and found that, although bamboo has a very respectable tensile strength, it is about a third that of steel. I gently corrected
him in a post and cited a reference that described the mechanical properties of bamboo. This started an extensive series of U2U's between us in which
he was literally craving engineering information about not only bamboo but several other building materials. I gave him as much information as I
could and he seemed very grateful. In all his private communications with me he was respectful, intelligent, intense, and...fun. I miss him too.
++Ken++
[Edited on 5-13-2008 by Ken Bondy]
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
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Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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Sharkes et al
JR was after all just a guy....But what a guy.....he believed that those folks who wandered over this world could be labeled and label them he
did....Fire and brimstone flashed from his very being and when he labeled a person as a 'human' everyone on this board knew exactly what and who he
was talking about....Passion he had by the ton....He was a man and indeed a human.
Ken is so very correct!!
[Edited on 5-13-2008 by Baja Bernie]
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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BornFisher
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I met JR a few times and he turned me on to this wonderful site. He seemed a very confident, friendly, and engaging man. Of course all the engaging
was about himself, and when I read what he wrote here, well let`s just say my opinion changed. Hey.. just my thoughts about the man, maybe I didn`t
get to know him well enough. RIP JR, no matter my thoughts, I miss JR and the reactions to his post`s!
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
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Location: Sunset Beach
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A Lurker comes out
I would like to take this time to introduce you all to Jaime who will be posting as csandjaime. The lady is the daughter of Dick Harrison, a very good
friend of mine for years and I'm sure that you will find her a great addition to this board. She has been bouncing around Baja since she was a'real'
young girl.
She would be posting here but she forgot her password.
hi, jaime here! i've been a baja brat for years.......doug HELP....please send me my password .........csandjaime@aol.com
[Edited on 5-13-2008 by Baja Bernie]
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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baitcast
Super Nomad
Posts: 1785
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: kingman AZ.
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Mood: good
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Ski Baja
I had just bought my first pc back in the old Amigo days and was feeling my way along,very slowly I might add, always been tech challenged,the thing
scared me, it was tap a button and hope it didn,t explode on me
Being a Baja junkie I was always looking for something about the place and stumbled on the site,took several days to work up the courage for my
first posting,a introduction and something clever would be just the thing I thought.
Up went the posting now wait,checked every 15 min nothing,it seemed like forever but finally it came,someone by the name Ski Baja,never forget
it,he said "very funny Baitcast welcome to the board".
I was hooked,nice guy,he always made it a point to reply to my early postings and encouraged me from the beginning,loved his stuff,raising
hell and the like,I felt like I knew the man tho never met him,I miss him. RIP my man.
Rob
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Bob H
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Yeah, I miss JR too! One would never really know what JR was all about unless you met him face to face, and shook his hand. A very friendly person
with a wonderful smile on his face, offering you an ice cold beer!
Bob H
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
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Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Note my Bouncing Around Baja Sticker on JR's Truch
Just over Bob's left shoulder
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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bajamigo
Super Nomad
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Location: Punta Banda, BC
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If you were to write his obituary...
I'd like to know more about the man, knowing only what I do know about him through his later posts. If someone on the board knew him well enough to
write his obituary, what would you say?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajamigo
I'd like to know more about the man, knowing only what I do know about him through his later posts. If someone on the board knew him well enough to
write his obituary, what would you say? |
Minnow says they were good friends. You might ask him...U2U.
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Bajamigo
Read my post on a Distant Drummer....some would say it was close to an obituary.
Minnow would be a good guy to fill it out.
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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David K
Honored Nomad
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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jrbaja was two people to us who knew him on the Internet and in person... and I don't mean the because of the period he used the handle 'Ski Baja'
when he couldn't remember his Nomad password.
I mean this in a good way, as he was multi talented person and loved the ranch people way back in the hills of southern Baja... jrbaja had many goals
to help travelers to Baja and even started an auto club of sorts for Baja travelers.
What I mean is that many of his posts were high energy, confrontational, bordering on insults... But, in person... a really NICE guy... His attacks
were always to flame and get a reaction, he never meant anything personal... and he told me that, in person... He loved to get the excitement level up
on Nomad!
I have been to jrbaja and Carol's place in La Barca many times... I met Antonio (BajaCactus) and his family there when jrbaja offered the use of their
home for the mini party... see http://vivabaja.com/bajacactus
jrbaja accepted my loads of kids clothes that he distributed further south... bug repellent, too (for dengue breakouts).
So, yes jrbaja (Ski Baja) was a great man who did do for others MORE than he did for himself and that says it all... Go back and read about his bamboo
plantation in San Bartolo. Don't think it was only warfare on Nomad between him and I... We had a good time in person, looking at maps, books,
drinking Pacificos, JR and Carol attended the first Baja Cactus Cultural Fiesta in Tijuana: http://vivabaja.com/fiesta/
So, JR... you did good here on earth... I hope you and your amigo Herb are having fun where you both are now!
Photo of us at La Barca: jrbaja talking with David K and Baja Bernie talking with Antonio's dad and Antonio. Photo by Baja Nomad.
[Edited on 5-15-2008 by David K]
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