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BajaBlanca
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What are you reading?
Well, I just finished a very interesting book which I thought I would share. It is not about Baja, but it is about survival against all odds.
The name of the book is THE ICE MASTER by Jennifer Niven. It is based on a ship adventure to the Arctic way back 1913-14.
It is fast but intense reading.
So... what are you reading?
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bajaguy
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Mood: must be 5 O'clock somewhere in Baja
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FOX News.....
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CP
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Reading a stack of old Sunset Magazines.
Just started listening to Amy Tan's Valley of Amazement after accidentally purchasing the audio book of Ulysses for the second time thinking I need to
know this classis piece of literature, only to again be unable to get much of a way into it before preferring to water the yard in silence.
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DENNIS
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"When I wear my Alligator Boots"
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520276789
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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Tioloco
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The Anglers Guide to Trailer Boating Baja- Zach Thomas.
Almost like being there!
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Ateo
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The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardener.
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mojo_norte
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
Well, I just finished a very interesting book which I thought I would share. It is not about Baja, but it is about survival against all odds.
The name of the book is THE ICE MASTER by Jennifer Niven. It is based on a ship adventure to the Arctic way back 1913-14.
It is fast but intense reading.
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If you enjoyed that you might like :
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
and/or
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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motoged
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I am reading your post.....
Last good read was "God's Middle Finger"....an account of the Sierra Madre area's history and recent effects of the drug trade.
Don't believe everything you think....
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
I am reading your post.....
Last good read was "God's Middle Finger"....an account of the Sierra Madre area's history and recent effects of the drug trade.
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Makes you want to drive right down to Copper Canyon and pitch a tent, doesn't it?
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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motoged
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Copper Canyon's allure has decreased somewhat lately....I have followed motorcycle trip reports for CC for past 12 years.....and have gained a good
sense of what it has to offer.
Friends were robbed of their motos there this past winter (same time mine was stolen/returned in San Felipe)....got all but one bike back....escorted
out of canyon by policia "muy rapido".
One guy has the whole robbery on GoPro   
Don't believe everything you think....
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DENNIS
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I was being facetious. I wouldn't go to Copper Canyon in a Sherman Tank.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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wessongroup
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Gypsy Jan
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The Inspector Lynley Novels
By Elizabeth George
“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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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I was being facetious. I wouldn't go to Copper Canyon in a Sherman Tank. |
"Being facetious" was an assumption I made.....
Sherman, the tank, said, "And no way I would want Dennis along for the trip....."
But doing some research....maybe it would be a good idea....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEeQPUp5VTY
Don't believe everything you think....
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Mexitron
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"Camp and Camino in Lower California 1908-1910" by Arthur North......talk about hard core camping! Just finished Leonard Wibberley's "Yesterday's
Land" a good retro tour of the northern peninsula in 1959 by truck.
Ulysses? Actually made it through that, don't ask me how or test me on it though
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SFandH
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Know Thy Enemy
"Inside Jihad - Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam" - Tawfik Hamid
Amazon Books
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
"Inside Jihad - Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam" - Tawfik Hamid
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A short read:
"Kill or be killed"..................that's it.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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John M
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current read
Two books -
Ranchos Become Cities - W.W. Robinson
Two Hundred Years in San Juan Capistrano - Pamela Hallan-Gibson
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CaboMagic
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Blanca u have such interesting posts! I see why the children clearly love being guided/coached by you .. u inspire thought and feelings ..
Right now am reading Draft #2 of Tommy's Story by Joyce Spizer Foy ... Its our version of Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" which I heard tell it
took him 25 yrs to complete the project - which was very successful for him after all. Am hoping to have similar results with our labor of love ..
Recently read Jeanette Walls "Half Broke Horses" which was excellent, and Mitch Albom's "For One More Day" which was also excellent.
Thanks for asking! Lori
[Edited on 8-6-2014 by CaboMagic]
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DanO
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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