Gypsy Jan
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Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
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Is Baja...
What is the reality of Baja?a state of mind or a place to go to?
There is practical information about visiting the peninsula and, then there are the discussions that start on topic and then veer off to disclosures
about all kinds of issues and positions.
Does the act of posting and responding on this site provide therapy and maybe therapy for what the modern urban life excaberates?
Or does this forum just ferment dissent?
I recently listened to an explication about the differences between democracy and representation. Well, this forum is pure democracy and I am
involved, squabbles, flaming and polite conversation make it what it is (sorry, don't mean to leave out great pictures, road news, etc.)
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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jrbaja
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"Or does this forum just ferment dissent?"
Only if we feel like it and "people" take the bait!
Kinda part of having some of Baja in yer sangre. Or vice versa.
Priorities seem to change and the "pirate/adventurer/not put up with bs comes into play. Usually.
People that like Baja like dirt. And not the kind you find on days of our wives.
Strong willed I guess it's called.
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Mike Humfreville
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Mike Humfreville
You already know the answer to your initial question. Baja is all those things.
But I think you are addressing the nomad board and its complexities more than you are questioning what value Baja California and Baja California Sur
who have to posters here.
So I'll assume you are really just addressing this board but, if you want, you can hold the image of the folks of Baja in your mind almost as a prop
because I certainly have no ability to speak for them. I?ll address your words paragraph by paragraph. That?s just to keep us on track with your
questions and make response more ?trackable? to your questions. And you already know this, I speak only in my own voice, represent no one else, and
expect no support from others.
State of mind or reality? Both, I think is the honest answer. Many of us experience Baja frequently. When we can't we live vicariously, through the
words of others.
Re your second paragraph, yes the issues in some threads do change quickly and are not true-to-theme. The reason for that is that some of us have
been posting here for years, some for a shorter time and some for the first time and many just read and don?t post. There was another board that
retired (the Amigos de Baja board God Bless Those three that carried us through so many life-altering events) where many of us met, both in a posting
sense and in a personal sense. Because of the two social boards some of us have grown close(r) and have traveled with each other to local and remote
places in Baja California over the past number of years. I hope that addresses your second paragraph. Over time we grow more, or less, comfortable
with each other but we understand how we work.
Re your third paragraph, I don?t recognize the difference so I?ll answer the dual questions as one: Yes, it is therapy, at least I know it is for some
of us (remember I speak only for myself). I suspect this is a case for many of us that live in So. Cal. and face the daily grind of extreme
competition, but I read it almost daily from a weather perspective from our friends from Canada, Washington, northern Oregon, and other cold states.
You have only to visit the patronage of San Felipe to determine the population origination. So, in conclusion to your third paragraph, I think you
hit the nail on the head (an American expression perhaps), you got it right.
Re your 4th paragraph ?or does this forum just ferment descent.? A firm NO to that. So many of us have bonded (so not a clich? here), have met in
remote locations and driven through horrible conditions to places so far in the outback most folks could not imagine. There are a very few here that
provoke animosities here and promote adversarial relationships elsewhere. But that?s easy to recognize. Just read the various venues that nomad
offers and find a way to fit into what you are interested in.
You can be assertive, casual, relaxed, up-tight dudette or dude and you?ll fit in.
Man, it?s too late to be awake!
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Bob H
Elite Nomad
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Registered: 8-19-2003
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This board is just another way of enjoying "fishing"... you never know what you are going to catch... but you WILL catch something. Just depends on
the type of bait you are using and how you are rigged up.
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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