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tripledigitken
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It's just the desert
It never fails when I enter a conversation with non-Baja types about driving to BCS I get a question. This is typical, "what do you find so enjoyable
about driving 600+ miles each way on a two lane road mostly through the desert?" I explain the solitude, the unusual plants, and so on, they just
don't get it, it falls on deaf ears.......
taken adjacent to Mex 1, Desierto el Vizcaino, Feb. 2015.
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David K
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It's like going to another planet... SERIOUSLY!
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güéribo
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Yes, those of us who dearly love the desert understand!
"If God would choose a plant to represent him, I think he would choose of all plants the cactus. Because this has all the blessings he tried, but
mostly failed, to give to man. Let me tell you how. It has humility, but it is not submissive. It grows where no other plant will grow. It does not
complain when the sun bakes it back or the wind tears it from the cliff or drowns it in the dry sand of the desert or when it is thirsty. When the
rains come it stores water for the hard times to come. In good times and in bad it will still flower. It protects itself against danger, but it harms
no other plant. It adapts perfectly to almost any environment. It has patience and enjoys solitude. In Mexico there is a cactus that flowers only once
every hundred years and at night. This is saintliness of an extraordinary kind, would you not agree? The cactus has properties that heal the wounds of
men and from it come potions that can make man touch the face of God or stare into the mouth of hell. It is the plant of patience and solitude, love
and madness, ugliness and beauty, toughness and gentleness. Of all plants, surely God made the cactus in His own image? It has my enduring respect and
is my passion."
Doc, speaking in the book "The Power of One," by Bryce Courtenay
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redhilltown
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bajabuddha
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Having been a desert lover my entire adult life, from the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau to Baja and more, I just tell 'em "Yup, you're right. Stay
home". Some just can't see the forest through the trees.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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4x4abc
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bajabuddha is right - don't show them pictures of the desert's beauty. Show them what they expected anyway.
Harald Pietschmann
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Skipjack Joe
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Nice image redhilltown.
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Skipjack Joe
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Matomi wash
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Sweetwater
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Sometimes there's a little bit of water.....to keep the desert alive....
Everbody\'s preachin\' at me that we all wanna git to heaven, trouble is, nobody wants to die to git there.-BB King
Reality is what does not go away when you stop believing in it. -Philip K Dick
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832, German writer, artist and politician)
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I\'ve never tried before. - Mae West
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.
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güéribo
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Hiking above Mission San Borja
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güéribo
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On the way to Yubay
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güéribo
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On the way to Mission Santa Maria
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Pompano
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"I Taut I Taw a ...What?"
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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güéribo
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Above Mulegé . . . more Baja beauty
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sargentodiaz
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And if one goes out on foot at night!
That's when the desert comes alive. Try it under a full moon.
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Bob53
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Bahia de los Angeles. View from Mike's Mountain
[Edited on 4-29-2015 by BajaNomad]
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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Skipjack Joe
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Baja at night.
[Edited on 4-29-2015 by BajaNomad]
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Skipjack Joe
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Baja at night -
[Edited on 4-29-2015 by BajaNomad]
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Skipjack Joe
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Baja at dusk:
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güéribo
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Skipjack Joe, the night photo tops them all. Did you take it?
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