My passenger (Pat) on the Baja Extreme 2016 completed his production of the final part (#7) of his music enhanced videos of our Baja tour. This final
part has:
Las Pintas, with its narrow passages and boulders covered in petroglyphs and fossils...
then it shows the onyx gift shop at Rancho Sonora (reported closed now)...
next is Mission San Fernando...
then La Lobera, the sea lion crater...
ending at Ron's aquaculture project at La Chorera/San Quintin where Ron (Baja Gringo) provided the best oysters and a fun birthday party for me and my
guests... Viva Baja!
My wife Roxie an I always stopped at the Oynx shop and visted the old guy and usually bought a few trinkets. It was on our gotta stop list and
several years ago we made the stainless sign he had out on the highway for him. We caught a relative there even though they weren't open and found out
he had passed away a few years ago. Never did know his name but always enjoyed out visits with him. The guy said they plan to reopen sometime.
Was his name Santiago?That could be a grandfather as I am using travel books for the 70s an 80s! I had breakfast at Cafe Sonora in July 2000 after
spending the night at El Volcán hoping the see the geyser erupt! I think he was old man Santiago?
One way to tell if we are talking about the same guy is if the Santiago your talking about was a lady smoocher to rival the Captain Francisco Munoz
the "kissing Captain " of the old Baja airline days. If so he was the guy!!!
One way to tell if we are talking about the same guy is if the Santiago your talking about was a lady smoocher to rival the Captain Francisco Munoz
the "kissing Captain " of the old Baja airline days. If so he was the guy!!!
Not so much old timer, I just got an autographed copy of Jimmy Smith book at his birthday party one night and read the pilot story. Well crap that
may make me an old timer in itself!!!
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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