For the Baja travelers - what reminds you of, or makes you think of Baja California? Better said (maybe), is what takes you back to Baja when you're
not there?
Thoughts/images of certain places?
Certain things?
Certain foods? Drinks? What?
--
Doug
Great Salt Lake
Cardon - 7-7-2006 at 09:29 PM
Sometimes when I'm standing on the shore of the Great Salt Lake it looks fo much like parts of the Sea of Cortez and Baja that I expect to see whales
and dolphins. Sadly the pioneers killed off all the whales in the Great Salt Lake back in the 1800's.
Doug
Baja Bernie - 7-7-2006 at 09:35 PM
To see what I thing of Baja--see a small sample under Puzzles on todays posts.bajalou - 7-7-2006 at 09:41 PM
I've driven in some parts of Utah that remeind me of some of my travels (back road) in Baja. Have commented to the wife about it.Natalie Ann - 7-7-2006 at 09:49 PM
I've had that same experience, Cardon, in early November looking out across the Great Salt Lake. The view was such that you could
see only the rounded peaks of mountains, muted by the mist, which seeminly hovered in midair above an immense body of water... much like how on really
hot days the islands seem to float in midair somewhere between the Sea of Cortez and heaven. I stood there in the chill November air, my heart
radiating warm thoughts of Baja.Diver - 7-7-2006 at 09:57 PM
Seeing a "Got Baja" sticker on someone's car or gear !!
Narrow roads, sandy beaches with cactus or boogums nearby, mexican beer with chips and salsa, colored blankets (striped), mexican hats, the faces of
mexican people, and many, many more lovely things.....Mike Humfreville - 7-7-2006 at 10:00 PM
Cordon Cactus, buzzards, dusty rocky roads, sweltering heat and humidity, extreme thirst and the flow of icewater in my throat. The reward of
visiting a remote rancho with livestock in the desert a million miles from nowhere and wondering how the lonely souls survive in such desolation. A
sunset on the west coast; a sunrise over the Bahia de Los Angeles and her off-islands glowing in the fresh beginning of a new day. Love is here.vgabndo - 7-7-2006 at 10:41 PM
At home, on the street or in the market, anywhere I might encounter a Mexican family interacting and speaking their language. I am always taken back
to Baja. Cathy and I will often share a glance, or smile when this happens and we know we've both been transported! We've been away too long and
we're having "withdrawals".
Conversely, the smell of a trash fire can sometimes do the same thing!
[Edited on 7-8-2006 by vgabndo]Mexitron - 7-7-2006 at 11:21 PM
Burning oil in car exhaust, Tecate, limes, and salt.bajajudy - 7-8-2006 at 05:55 AM
I go "back" to Baja everytime I step out my door.....trust me, I know how lucky I am!Diver - 7-8-2006 at 08:50 AM
Judy, NO FAIR !!!
TACO BELL
Bruce R Leech - 7-8-2006 at 09:35 AM
No not really that is a joke
but when i am in the US I think about Baja every time I get hungryCapt. George - 7-8-2006 at 09:38 AM
Whenever I find myself (physically or spiritually) in a place of peace.
Ahhhhh, Baja!David K - 7-8-2006 at 09:39 AM
Nice post Doug!
Baja is a constant in my brain... an addiction perhaps, but it is a good addiction to have 'Baja Fever'!
I have a special love for some types of 'Baja', but I do have a love for all the rest of her, as well...
1) Anywhere boojums (cirios) grow... San Quintin to San Ignacio (not just along Mex. 1, but off the beaten path).
2) Isolated sandy beaches... Shell Island or anywhere that requires 4WD and/or deflating tires, for me.
3) Natural beauty/ geology of the peninsula... just amazing land forms, canyons, plants and animals.
I have a special interest in history, and Baja is FULL of history!
1) Prehistoric in the form of fossils and petrified wood (near El Rosario & Las Pintas, for example).
2) Ancient man, as displayed but the hundreds or more petroglyphs and pictographs/ murals... some of the finest in the world. Baja was a special place
even way back then.
3) European invasion... yes, this pretty much ended the native population but it is history and brought to Baja the people who became Mexicans. The
missions and El Camino Real 'roads' connectiong the missions are very interesting to me.
4) Mines... Baja is/was a wealth of mineral treasures and the old mines and infrustructure is interesting.
5) Old ranchos and the old dirt roads that connected them to the villages before graded and paved roads.
I devoted my web site (VivaBaja.com) to showing these many parts of Baja... there is SO MUCH MORE than Cabo or the other cities and resorts.
Thanks again Doug... these are some of the things that make me think of Baja and why.TMW - 7-8-2006 at 10:00 AM
The thought of no phones, TV, radio or newspaper. Just the natural sounds of nature be it the ocean or animal. It's another world so different from
where I'm at here. Traveling down some dirt road just thinking of where it goes and who may be there is simple but relaxing. It's my battery charger
and thinking of getting another charge is never far away in my thoughts.DanO - 7-8-2006 at 10:51 AM
My truck covered with dust.
2 things come to mind--------
Barry A. - 7-8-2006 at 12:02 PM
(1) Sometimes when I am sitting on my patio in the evening here in HOT Redding when the temp is about 85, and it is quiet and peaceful, sipping a
rum and coke (Cuba Libra), I pine for the remote beaches of Baja, and all the great times------
(2) Drive the "Apache Trail" between Apache Junction and Roosevelt, Arizona (just east of Phoenix) on state route 88-----dirt road, desert down to
the waters edge on remote lakes-----just like Baja, but with fresh water. Fantastic!!!
BarrySharksbaja - 7-8-2006 at 12:03 PM
My crew.
From the Deseret News
vgabndo - 7-8-2006 at 12:36 PM
Whales ? A Provo newspaper in 1890 reported a pod of whales had been spotted swimming in the Great Salt Lake. They were supposedly offspring of a pair
of young whales planted there 15 years earlier. It is doubtful marine mammals could have lived in the lake's extreme salinity.
Come to think of it, seeing whales ANYWHERE reminds me of Baja!
[Edited on 7-8-2006 by vgabndo]Sallysouth - 7-8-2006 at 05:41 PM
I get taken away to the south when I hear Ranchero music.Also love the aromas(bad and good) of food cooking,and the sight of animals on or beside the
roadways.Then there are the birds, so much more prevalent in Baja than here in So.Cal.So much more.....Osprey - 7-8-2006 at 07:10 PM
Three hundred years ago the Ute Indians would take big chunks of salt from the shores of what is now Great Salt Lake, haul em up to the forest to
entice the dear. Hence the name of the state capital, Salt Lick City. Not many people alive today know that.Frank - 7-8-2006 at 10:18 PM
Everytime I fill my truck with $3.20/ gallon diesel. When the meter reaches $120.00 I know I could of just driven past La Paz....Tomas Tierra - 7-8-2006 at 10:32 PM
going downtown Oxnard for lunch..
When my truck is dirty
BAJACAT - 7-8-2006 at 11:02 PM
I can describe what is like to be in Baja,the close it's I can get is felling in control of my destination even do some times you start driving with
no plan in mind, just follow the road to see what you will find at the end.If you like what you find you tell your friends about it.If you don't like
it, you still tell your friends and explain to them that it was and adventure to get there and some time thats where the fun is..Sallysouth - 7-9-2006 at 12:26 AM
[Edited on 7-9-2006 by Sallysouth]
Size 8 Vibram for comparison!
vgabndo - 7-9-2006 at 12:08 PM
Bruce R Leech - 7-9-2006 at 12:23 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by DanO
My truck covered with dust.
I don't know why but for some reason I like Dan Os the best.Bruce R Leech - 7-9-2006 at 12:26 PM
BAJACAT sed about the same thingoladulce - 7-9-2006 at 02:40 PM
I go paddleboarding every day out of the local harbor and it feels natural to say "hi" or wave to other paddlers, kayakers, sailors and even big boats
who enthusiastically reciprocate the gesture. I don't experience this in any other aspect of suburbia-life.
I'm sure everyone has caught themselves starting to wave at a stranger when they first return home from Mexico, and at least out on the water I can
keep a little of the feelling of Baja alive until I return again.
[Edited on 7-12-2006 by oladulce]Paula - 7-9-2006 at 06:31 PM
The price of a mango in Montana-- and it isn't nearly as good as a mango in Loreto!David A. - 7-10-2006 at 11:46 AM
Hearing a 4 cylinder car drive past me without a muffler
Guess where I just was....
Paulina - 7-10-2006 at 12:49 PM
We don't have to see anything, hear or smell anything to take us back to baja at any given point in time. We can be doing our daily tasks, ie washing
dishes at the restaurant for example, or just driving down the road, to be all of a sudden far away, back in Baja, at home.
"Guess where I just was?" is a question we ask each other on a constant almost daily basis. I was just at the turn off to Caliveras from Santo Tomas
yesterday. Today I was in San Ignacio at the cool waters under the palms. With us, our brains jump to places that live in our hearts at any given
moment without anything sparking it. Does that make sense? It's in our blood.
On the other days when we're not mentally in Baja we have the "Wall of Shame" at the restaurant that we stare at when we're feeling homesick. It has
come in handy more times than not. We are finding that Baja is a small world, a one way street. When customers come in, look at the wall and exclaim,
'Hey, I know that person!" or "I've been there before!" I realize at that point that our wall is serving it's purpose. The wall is growing and we're
running out of room.
Guess where I just was? Sitting on the beach of Bahia, my chair under the water so that my chin is just grazing the surface, sunglasses on, wide
brimmed hat, cold cerveza in hand, held above water level of course or else it would warm too quickly to the temp. of the Sea of Cortez......
The count down is on!
P<*)))><
Thanks Doug for helping me to post the photo!
[Edited on 7-11-2006 by BajaNomad]
[Edited on 11-7-2006 by Paulina]Ken Cooke - 7-10-2006 at 05:28 PM
Quote:
Thoughts/images of certain places?
Certain things?
Certain foods? Drinks? What?
Traveling south of San Francisco, my wife and I thought that the beachs of Sand City and Pacifica reminded us of Baja on the Pacific.
Our best fish and shrimp tacos and burritos outside of Baja have been bought at Dorados in Monterrey Park.
Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
BAJACAT sed about the same thing
When my truck is dirty with dust not (starbucks empty cup,seven 11 candy
wrappers,jack in the CAJA miscellaneous items>Sharksbaja - 7-11-2006 at 10:38 PM
There's a big difference in dirt from the States and dirt from Baja. AMEN!Pablo - 7-12-2006 at 10:37 AM
Anytime the temp. here in Sedona, AZ, drops below 70 degrees, especially that first morning when you can feel the nip of fall in the air. Other than
that almost every day.
The Smell of Smoke
Taco de Baja - 7-12-2006 at 12:22 PM
The smell of a mesquite fire brings me to the deserts of Baja....
The smell of a driftwood fire on the beach, brings me to a baja beach.....tim40 - 7-12-2006 at 10:56 PM
Every time we open our garage and see all the items that only get used when we are in Baja.tim40 - 7-12-2006 at 10:57 PM
Each time we see an innovative way to make something out of something many of us would discard or not even begin to have thought of the alternate use.FARASHA - 7-17-2006 at 11:05 AM
HM - I' reminded everytime I feel for a CORONA, everytime I see a lemon, everytime I open my PC/LT and see the Baja Nomad Webpage, everytime I see the
Hummingbird Close Up's I took on my last trip on my Desktop ( which I consider to put on Baja Nomad as soon as I've figured how to do), and
everytime my broken heart is hurting!bajalera - 7-18-2006 at 05:12 PM
Warm beer.
The Sauna....
djh - 7-18-2006 at 09:39 PM
Well.... Loreto in July and August anyway (not my favorite time of year there....) Yup.... the sauna.
And then... when the winter snows come to North Idaho and it is below zero (F), and dark at 3:30 in the afternoon.... THAT really flips my Baja
switch !
