vgabndo
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Location: Mt. Shasta, CA
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Mood: Checking-off my bucket list.
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How about Baja BooHoos on the byways?
This spot will be recognizable to many. Unforgettable to the trailero!
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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Pompano
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Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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Familar scene..here's Another Baja BooHoo!
Vgabndo, I am indeed familiar with the scene. I drive those curves every day. There are 72 between my house in the Bay and Mulege..all dangerous to
careless drivers. There have been dozens of wrecks in that area since the road opened..and lots of fatalities. The worst scare comes when you meet
that most dangerous of all travelers...the Baja Road Bicyclers..oblivious to the lives the endanger.
Here's another Baja Road danger and definetely a 'BajaBooHoo'. A winding snake of over 100 Airstreamers headed down the Baja Highway in 1974-75.
They were the first of many to come. Traveling slowly down the middle of the road (lots of potholes back then, too) they were VERY dangerous to pass
and would hold traffic up for hours. We quickly learned to store up supplies when told of an approching caravan...like a horde of locusts, they
gobbled up all the gas, diesel, & groceries. I snapped this photo next to La Posada in Conception Bay. Not too far from where your 'trailero' photo
was taken.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Capt. George
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SCARY ROAD!!
Deborah and I got our first taste of it last year.....A Norte Americano heading at us, we were northbound....bay to our right, no where to go but
DOWN. Had his trailer mirror completely extended (no trailer, DUH). Deborah literally had her head out the window hanging over the cliff, no mas, no
mas!! This beauty had his driver side tire on the line...yep, smash, mirror to mirror....lucky my window was closed and took the hit, window exploded.
We stopped at Santispac just up the road and waited....nada...I now drive with my drivers side mirror in, who's coming at you?????
Last week heading south from Vizcaino, at night, I flashed a semi to let him know my dims were on (very bright dims, F-350). He decided to put his
left signal on and head into our lane, my passenger wheel was over the edge, don't know how we didn't roll....I know it was intentional. Be careful
out there, this ain't the states..............Vikingo
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Capt. George
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POMPANO
Never got a clear answer on Dusky...
a simple yes or no......
adios. George
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woody with a view
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Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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we have a term for those moments when a bus is coming up behind going 90 mph and up ahead is an 18 wheeler coming at you. you don't know whether to
hit the brakes so the bus can pass before impacting the cow pusher on the truck or just hold on and let fate roll your dice. it is at that precise
moment in time when someone, usually a passenger (the driver is to engrossed in morbid mental fantasies to think of anything else!) yells out,
"MEXICAN ORGASM!!!" 
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