Taking a page from Jeff Foxworthy I'll start this new thread in hopes of evoking some humor (without any raunchy stuff). Each post should be like "If
you go camping in Baja, take $300 for beer and $12 for food You Might be a Baja Nomad". You get the picture. How about some laughs?Bajagypsy - 3-29-2007 at 09:48 AM
If you go back to the prairies in Canada, and casually state to your doctor that you think you have an infection from a sting ray puncture, you might
be a baja nomad.Ken Bondy - 3-29-2007 at 09:52 AM
If you have more than 2 inches of caked-on mud in the wheelwells of your Escalade, you might be a Baja Nomad.tripledigitken - 3-29-2007 at 10:05 AM
If you have a bright red Hummer H1, with flames, and don't forget the lifting hooks, you might be a..........................................Baja
Nomad.
[Edited on 3-29-2007 by tripledigitken]bajaandy - 3-29-2007 at 10:29 AM
You might be a Baja Nomad if...............................
You find little Baja indigenous plants growing where you wash out your gear after you get home from a Baja surf trip.Sharksbaja - 3-29-2007 at 11:00 AM
If your friends back home comment on the unmistakeable odors emanating from you and yer gear, well, you're busted as a BajaNomad.Taco de Baja - 3-29-2007 at 11:07 AM
If you can honestly answer "Just dust", when the ICE agent asks, "What are you brining back from Mexico?"Ken Bondy - 3-29-2007 at 11:08 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by tripledigitken
If you have a bright red Hummer H1, with flames, and don't forget the lifting hooks, you might be a..........................................Baja
Nomad.
Sounds familiar. Guilty!! DanO - 3-29-2007 at 11:17 AM
If you spend hours at work daydreaming about who makes the best fish tacos, carnitas, tortas or any other Mexican road food, you are, without
question, a BajaNomad. (You are also a useless excuse for an employee who should be placed on leave and sent to Baja until you shape up. Please see
your supervisor immediately.)Bajagypsy - 3-29-2007 at 11:49 AM
DanO, as my supervisor would never agree to sending me back to my correct home (Baja), I was wondering, could you please temp as a supervisor?Mexitron - 3-29-2007 at 11:55 AM
If your last trip was two years ago and you now live in Fort Worth, Texas and you still haven't cleaned the red dust inside the truck from the last
Baja trip your a Nomadbajaandy - 3-29-2007 at 12:05 PM
You might be a Nomad if.......
You have to check with the Sacred Society of the Secret Spots before going on a trip to the Seven Sisters!Pompano - 3-29-2007 at 12:18 PM
IF you think you recognize the same dogs on trips down the Baja Road.......you might be a Nomad.
[Edited on 3-29-2007 by Pompano]DanO - 3-29-2007 at 12:27 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Bajagypsy
DanO, as my supervisor would never agree to sending me back to my correct home (Baja), I was wondering, could you please temp as a supervisor?
Absolutely. You're fired. You have 24 hours to pack your truck and get out of Dodge. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.Diver - 3-29-2007 at 12:54 PM
If you have a "GOT BAJA" sticker on your rig.
If David K had your picture on his website.
If you know who JR Baja is.
If you drive an F350 all year just so you can tow your rig to Baja.
If you have pesos in you truck all year.
If you have a case of Baja beer empties to return next trip.
If you laugh at Bob's jokes.
If you bought the T-shirt.
Oh, I could go on.....
.Bajagypsy - 3-29-2007 at 12:56 PM
Thank you DanO that is just what I needed to here!capitolkat - 3-29-2007 at 01:23 PM
If the name on your NCAA March Madness pool is HaHa Bajak1w1 - 3-29-2007 at 01:33 PM
if you're driving north (on your way outta there) with Los Tigres Del Norte blasting on the stereo and tears in your eyes well ....Packoderm - 3-29-2007 at 01:49 PM
If your fish aquarium features a dessert scene - you just might be a Baja Nomad.Skipjack Joe - 3-29-2007 at 01:57 PM
if you can name all of David K's relatives
.... and how many fish they caught at Morro Santo Domingo.tripledigitken - 3-29-2007 at 02:32 PM
If you take off the brand new set of all terrain tires from your recently purchased dream 4 by 4, and replaced them with a set of extreme rock
crawlers, that are noisy as hell on the pavement that you drive on 98% of the time, when not in
Baja...................................................................................
If you recognize David K's mothers bathing suit at a garage sale in Oceanside, Ca........................................................
you are probably a Baja Nomad!
[Edited on 3-29-2007 by tripledigitken]Paula - 3-29-2007 at 02:38 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by k1w1
if you're driving north (on your way outta there) with Los Tigres Del Norte blasting on the stereo and tears in your eyes well ....
Los Tigres are for the drive down-- La Llorona is for the triphome
You know that you are a nomad
bajajudy - 3-29-2007 at 02:45 PM
if you have checked this thread more than 20 times today
Good one Seahawk!Baja Bernie - 3-29-2007 at 02:55 PM
If you have sand in your toes, care in your heart, and the wind in your hair.....................you could be a Nomad!
you're a bajanomad, etc., etc.
Skipjack Joe - 3-29-2007 at 02:56 PM
If on the drive home your kid asks you:
'hey, why don't we just live here, dad'
- and you can't come up with a convincing answer.
baja nomad
MoFish - 3-29-2007 at 07:21 PM
If you can,t remember how many flats you hadbajaguy - 3-29-2007 at 07:27 PM
If you head north from Ensenada with an ice chest full of COSTCO choco-flans and gallon zip lock baggies full of Hermanos carnitas................you
JUST might be a Baja Nomad
You know if you are a NOMAD
BAJACAT - 3-29-2007 at 07:52 PM
if while driving in the states you are looking for GOT BAJA?stickers on the cars in front of you...
Im guilty of this common side effect of my many visits to the Baja Nomad forum...oladulce - 3-29-2007 at 07:54 PM
....if your over-valued California townhouse still has bare concrete floors where you removed the original carpet 12 years ago when you bought it ,
because you'd much rather spend the money on stuff like your Baja septic system
and
you bought David K's mother's bathing suit at a garage sale in Oceanside...
[Edited on 3-30-2007 by oladulce]
I got another one
BAJACAT - 3-29-2007 at 07:56 PM
You are a Nomad if you know who is DAVID KIERvgabndo - 3-29-2007 at 08:49 PM
You may be a Baja Nomad if you are still saving un-used Amigos de Baja stickers that you don't want to put on your truck because you may sell it some
day.
All of the Above...Yur' a Baja Nomad...
Mexray - 3-29-2007 at 08:57 PM
...If your avatar is a braying burro...you might be a Baja Nomad.
If you find yourself drifting off to 'Baja Time' during the Superbowl...you might be a Baja Nomad.
If all your vehicles and those of your friends have been 'branded' with BAJA TIME stickers...you might be a Baja Nomad.
click to enlarge:
Yeah...I got the new ProComp Xtreme AT's (LT325/65R18) mounted up and ready to go...I'm a Baja Nomad!
[Edited on 3-30-2007 by Mexray]Paulina - 3-29-2007 at 09:19 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by vgabndo
You may be a Baja Nomad if you are still saving un-used Amigos de Baja stickers that you don't want to put on your truck because you may sell it some
day.
GUILTY <*)))><
Today while in town I needed quarters for the parking meter. The ashtray in the truck is full of pesos, sea shells and a green plastic ninja that I
found on the beach in Tortuga Bay. I checked in my wallet and there are more peso notes than greenbacks in there.
This is a fun thread.
[Edited on 30-3-2007 by Paulina]RockhouseTom - 3-29-2007 at 09:27 PM
You might be a Baja Nomad if......
They never run out of beer in Town, but you have called home more than once to claim you won't make it back on time because "Their out of fuel at the
Pemex"David K - 3-29-2007 at 10:01 PM
You Guys!!!
YOU might be a Baja Nomad IF the ONLY surfing you do is to Baja web sites on the Internet!
Baja Nomad getting 95% of your time, on the net!
Photo of Dad (Dr. Ed Kier) and me, taken by mom (Lynn) at the beach near Laguna Manuela / Morro Santo Domingo after a weekend of awesome surf fishing
in 1982 or 83. I was about 25...
jeans - 3-30-2007 at 12:39 AM
If you absent-mindedly say "Gracias" after ordering your fish taco at Rubios...you might be a Baja Nomad.
If your yard is "decorated" with rocks from the shore of Concepcion bay, the Rumeroso quartz mine, sulpher mines, the "smooth round stones of La
Gringa" a TON of white granite from Guadalupe Canyon, a bashed in, shot-up bucket from an abandoned rancho near Guerrero Negro, a rusty enamal coffee
cup from Agua Verde, and pottery shards from the Pai Pai village of Santa Catarina.....you just might be a Baja Nomad.
If you get "tire envy" when you see a rig with bigger tires than yours...You just might be a Baja Nomad.Capt. George - 3-30-2007 at 05:04 AM
if your toilet bowl smolders after a return trip to the states.:moon:Santiago - 3-30-2007 at 05:19 AM
if every fish taco stateside is instantly compared to the taco lady next to Lizzeth and found wanting.
if you have a special place in your closet for baja t-shirts.
if after a long trip to la otra lado you come home to the kids that need your attention, a wife that demands your attention, a business/job that needs
your attention but the very first thing you do is carefully clean your rods, reels and tackle.
if every time you get up before dawn, you get your coffee and go outside to watch the sky lighten and you wonder if the panga fleet has any customers
today and if they're heading out to make bait.
if every time you tune into the weather channel you wonder why they cut all weather symbols off below the border and why don't they predict something
meaningful like the wind patterns in the SOC?Osprey - 3-30-2007 at 07:25 AM
I might have been a Baja Nomad for a long time -- on one memorable driving trip to Mulege, when I found out the peso was about 3300 to one I stopped
to change money with the Chinaman in Calexico, bought over a million pesos just for kicks. Part of that trip I wish I could take back -- the part
where, out of habit, I put my change in the Cruz Rojo cups -- it was much later that I figured out it was negative money; a full cup of coins would
get you maybe a nickle.Paula - 3-30-2007 at 07:36 AM
...if you want to tip in the US for excellent service with pesos, because they are so much prettier than dollars, and more fun to spend...
not sure....
Tomas Tierra - 3-30-2007 at 08:31 AM
If you take time out of your "busy" Baja trip to photograph some beaten down old trailer like this(below). You might be a Baja Nomad (and a
REDNECK!).......proudly!
You know you're a Baja Nomad when....
Loretana - 3-30-2007 at 08:51 AM
you give your new Oregon born and bred duck dog a name all the neighbor kids in the Colonia can pronounce...
Chazz
Lindalou - 3-30-2007 at 09:11 AM
We are guilty of so much of the above I know we are Baja Nomads. Thank Gosh!
You might be a Nomad...
zforbes - 3-30-2007 at 09:53 AM
if your wallpaper is a lizard photo taken from Nomads and your passwords relate to Baja adventures
You're a baja nomad
Skipjack Joe - 3-30-2007 at 10:44 AM
if you can recite entire sections of 'Baja Catch' by heart.
if you visit Death Valley and find it wanting because it doesn't have enough water to look like the Sea of Cortez.
if you fall asleep each night examining your precious baja rocks .... mumbling 'Rosebaja'? <groan>.FARASHA - 3-30-2007 at 11:08 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by zforbes
if your wallpaper is a lizard photo taken from Nomads and your passwords relate to Baja adventures
HEY- mine is a Hummingbird and the Velvet Sunset photo - ZOE.
Beside being guilty of checking this forum many times a day.
Changed password to a mexican.
Serving tortillas on weekends.
Buy mexican beer rather then local brands ( tell you, had to cut down on consumption).
Have more mail contacts in my mailinglist from over there, then from elsewhere.
My 11 yearold nephew telling me, he wants to go where I took those great scorpion pics, and the ground shakes from volcanic actions ( after telling
him from Sharis shaketown), and fossile sharks teeth are to be found ( he is a fossile nut - Zoe?? - told him about your find), and the whales are
shaking the boats.
ALTHOUGH he has never been there - just listened to me and saw my pics.
GUESS I am a BAJA NOMAD and soon my Nephew too.
Will let him subscribe to Sirenitas site asap.Marie-Rose - 3-30-2007 at 04:51 PM
You know your in love with Mexico when along side the bottles of Tequila, dried jamaica,and bags of pinto beans, you bring home a bottle of
Fabuloso Can't buy the stuff in Canada and it brings me back everytime I walk
into the house and smell things freshly cleaned with Fabuloso!!!!David K - 3-30-2007 at 04:58 PM
Or on your long drive from Canada to Baja, you spend a morning having breakfast with a Nomad in Vista, at Sunrise Cafe to get some details to have
more fun by!BornFisher - 3-30-2007 at 06:02 PM
When you think a 12 pack of beer is a case of Ballenas!Steve in Oro Valley - 3-30-2007 at 09:03 PM
You might be a nomad if you go outside in your back yard every morning to:
check on the health of your 3 foot tall cirio (boojum).....
check for new flowers on the giant cardon ......
wonder if a new Baja plant will do well in that empty corner of your lot... or.....
Use the automatic checkout lane at the grocery store using the spanish menu so you can keep fresh on your Spanish...
yeah, you might be a nomad..,
Steve in Oro ValleyDavid K - 3-30-2007 at 09:14 PM
Steve, please show us your transplanted boojum tree!
If you remember, I had a 'liberated' boojum cutting (a branch about a foot long, since 1984). I was able to root it, and kept in a container for 19
years... It grew a few inches. I transplanted it into a bigger pot. Most interesting was every year it would grow out the long stems and leaves and
they would drop off later... the last few years it would flower each year! I brougt it to my Viva Baja party for a show and tell.
The end happed a couple years ago when termites invaded the pot and destroyed my beloved baby boojum.Paula - 3-30-2007 at 09:31 PM
FABULOSO!!!!!!!!!!
Marie-Rose, that is priceless! For a full year I could smell what the laundry used on my clothes in Oaxaca-- it brought tears of joy to my eyes.
edit for inept typing.
[Edited on 3-31-2007 by Paula]Iflyfish - 3-30-2007 at 09:33 PM
If you lost three hubcaps and don't give a s...
If you notice that gringos rarely smile at each other, let alone wish you avia bien.
If you notice that norte food tastes like plastic.
If you are still afraid to drink tap water after a month back.
You still notice how soft the toilet paper is.
You find yourself talking with every Mexican you see in your bastardized
Spanish, just to try and recapture a moment.....
You laugh your ass of at Carlos Mancia cause you "get" him......
You find yourself daydreaming about how much you could sell your house for and how little it would cost to buy in.........................
IflyfishGadget - 3-30-2007 at 11:02 PM
If your vavorite CD is a compilation of Baja related Mexico songs
If your CD player only works correctly while driving on washboards
If you feel more comfortable driving 65 on a baja dirt road than a So. Cal freewayBajagypsy - 3-31-2007 at 06:38 AM
Your Children may be Bajanomad's if:
- they prefer to do home work on totes on the beach
- they don't mind driving for 38 hours straight just to get to Baja
- Every time it snows in Saskatoon, they say tht it is stupid, we should move
- They still have peso's that they want to keep "for the next trip"
Ken Bondy - 3-31-2007 at 06:50 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Iflyfish
You still notice how soft the toilet paper is. Iflyfish
Ha . Credit to Iflyfish for the idea:
If you notice that your toilet paper doesn't have knotholes in it......you're probably a Nomad.FARASHA - 3-31-2007 at 08:15 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Quote:
Originally posted by Iflyfish
You still notice how soft the toilet paper is. Iflyfish
Ha . Credit to Iflyfish for the idea:
If you notice that your toilet paper doesn't have knotholes in it......you're probably a Nomad.
YEAH - great one - agree absolutely.Paulina - 3-31-2007 at 08:18 AM
More credit to Iflyfish....How about if your toilet paper still finds itself in the trashcan once you're stateside....
P<*)))><
ps. Marie-Rose: for our laundry it's Suavetel (sp?)Marie-Rose - 3-31-2007 at 08:48 AM
...speaking of toilet paper, you know you are a nomad if for weeks after your return home, you are looking for the garbage can to dispose of toilet
paper!!
You might be a nomad if
DianaT - 3-31-2007 at 09:05 AM
you keep looking for the other car that has the license plate you lost on the dirt road.
you carry a screwdriver in the front of the truck to reattach fallen parts as you drive.backninedan - 3-31-2007 at 09:15 AM
If you see an eighty year old woman pushing a wheelbarrow down the street, followed by her sixty year old son riding a bike and carrying a chicken.
You might be!!!!bajabass - 3-31-2007 at 11:41 AM
You have more/better furniture at the house in La Mision than at your condo in Orange!! Feel more at home in the local carneceria than at Ralph's!!
Your cup holder is full of pesos for the toll booths!!Steve in Oro Valley - 3-31-2007 at 02:34 PM
This a seed grown plant that is about 30 years old. I bought it about 10 years ago from Sr. Cirio who has a large nursery in the Tucson Mtns.
Sr. Cirio use to accompany Dr. Humphreys on seed collecting trips to the Baja Peninsula in the 60s and 70s.
[Edited on 3-31-2007 by Steve in Oro Valley]
Steve in Oro Valley - 3-31-2007 at 02:57 PM
This cardon was planted by me 21 years ago when it was 2 feet tall...
It has bloomed and set fruit for 12 years in a row but this year it is retarded by the extreme cold of January... The cold that wiped out 80 percent
of California's citrus crop...
Steve in Oro Valley - 3-31-2007 at 03:19 PM
Here is a descendant of Totem pole cactus probably collected by Dr. Lindsay of the California Academy of Science in about 1940. He met AnIta Espinoza
then and soon later got his first big position as Director of the Desert Botanical Garden in Papago Park in Phoenix in about 1941....
This is a 3rd generation cutting of a stump that I acquired in 1976...
maybe, i dunno
woody with a view - 3-31-2007 at 03:44 PM
when you catch yourself still waving at oncoming cars, after you've crossed la linea...
when you wife gets all peeed about the few "kernels" of sand (really baja seasoning) in her meal. LaRibereņa - 3-31-2007 at 06:03 PM
You shake hands with everyone!DianaT - 3-31-2007 at 06:04 PM
If your four food groups are
Cilantro
Ajo
Hot peppers---jalapenos, habaneros, chipolte etc.
Tortitias, ---maiz or harina
You might be a Baja Nomad
[Edited on 4-1-2007 by jdtrotter]
You Might Be A Nomad...
Cameron - 3-31-2007 at 06:29 PM
..If you cry when you cross the border.
YOU MIGHT BE A NOMAD IF...
Paulina - 3-31-2007 at 10:19 PM
at any point during the day you look at you significant other and say, "Guess where I just was?"
And they have an honest understanding when you answer:
on the smooth bench, under the trees in San Ignacio, at the view as you come upon Bahia de Los Angeles, on the road to San Javiar in 1988, eating at
my favorite taco stand, talking with Fred on the bluf above Punta Banda, finding that whale bone on such a such a beach, loosing the swim step as we
chased that last whale shark....
You might be a Nomad if your every day thougths just happen to be wishing you were 'home'.
P<*)))><Skipjack Joe - 4-1-2007 at 05:23 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Paulina
And they have an honest understanding when you answer:
on the smooth bench, under the trees in San Ignacio
P<*)))><
Yes!!
I've been daydreaming about that exact same thing a lot recently. How did you know? Snoozing on those cold benches, watching the kids play. What a
welcome relief from that harsh sun.Phil S - 4-1-2007 at 02:56 PM
You know your a Baja Nomad when your watching your "ball games" in Spanish, and you don't care!!!!!!fdt - 4-4-2007 at 08:43 PM
You know you're a Nomad if you decide not to drink anymore beer when in Baja, but also decide not to drink any less bajabass - 4-6-2007 at 02:39 PM
Every time you cross the border you only declare dirty laundry!!wiltonh - 4-7-2007 at 07:33 PM
You know that you are an OLD Nomad, when your first trip to Cabo was the first year the pavement went all the way down.
You know that you are a Nomad, when the distance from your US home to the border, is the same distance from the border to Cabo and you cannot wait for
the next trip.
You know that you are a Nomad, when you return home and take out your wallet for the offering in church and find only Pesos.
You know that you are really messed up when you pull into a gas station in Baja and pull out a bunch of bills and hand them to the attendant. He
looks at you like you are crazy. One of the bills was left over from the last trip to Coast Rica.Phil S - 4-8-2007 at 01:02 PM
wiltonh. That 1,000 miles to border from your home must be in southern Oregon somewhere, huh????? I'm at Oregon mp 125 on I-5wiltonh - 4-8-2007 at 09:24 PM
Actually we now live in Portland Oregon.
We lived near Spokane Washington when we made our first trip to Cabo.jimgrms - 4-9-2007 at 07:48 AM
You might be a nomad if you made your first trip to baja at the age of 14 and you are now 70 and can still laugh about the nite you spent in a san
felipe jail
or if you knew the clam man when he sold clams instead of t shirts
[Edited on 4-9-2007 by jimgrms]
You might be a Nomad if...
M - 4-11-2007 at 04:53 AM
If you mourned the loss of 'Amigos' like loosing a dear, dear friend, but then are BLESSED and elated to have found everybody on THIS board, YOU ARE
A NOMAD!
If the Captain on a long range fishing trip out of Ensenada starts calling you 'Feather' (like a trolling feather) because your dressed worse than the
deckhands. Plaids with polka dots, any obnoxious color combination that happens to fit at the thrift store, for 'Baja Wear and tear and toss, you
might be a Nomad
If you drive a beat to hell, jacked up Chevy Van with HUGE tires and 3 fuel filters, drive her year round in BMW land, and you lovingly name her
'Grunt', you may be a Nomad.
If you have unpacked everything, dug yourself out of the sand and can't even remember how many times you have done it per year, you might be a Nomad.
If you can scare hell out of Graham Mackintosh, 5 miles out to sea in a collapsible 12 foot Porta Boat hooked up to a Marlin,
you may be a Nomad. (we lost it)
If you can roll that Porta Boat upside down in the surf, and come out of the water TOTALLY naked in front of Many witnesses, and later treasure the
memory, you may be a Nomad.
If you settle for rattlesnake on a stick with taco bell sauce for dinner because you are to lazy to go into town shopping, and dinner just happened
to slither into camp....well, you might be a Nomad.
If the border guys don't even bother to ask you any more what you were doing in Mexico, because one look at you and it is OBVIOUS your a dirty Baja
desert rat with a forlorn look on your face, coming back to the states, well, you might be a Nomad.
Hugs,
M
P.S BHL and I are leaving for Florida on Friday for the daughters WEDDING! God, I get to be called 'Grandma all week too..sniff.
Graham Mackintosh in M's Porta-Boat
David K - 4-11-2007 at 10:29 AM
DANG, DK! YOU ARE FAST!
M - 4-11-2007 at 05:17 PM
You have a record of just about everything! uh....oops, never mind, just forget I said anything....
M
M
Baja Bernie - 4-11-2007 at 05:58 PM
And you are definitely a Nomad if David has pictures and, believe me .......he does.David K - 4-11-2007 at 06:39 PM
You know, there is something about seeing the person 'behind the keyboard' to add realism or just inspire friendly feelings between us.
Before the Internet and Baja travel clubs like Mexico West, Discover Baja, Vagabundos del Mar... we Baja nuts thought we were almost alone in the
wilderness, that nobody could understand our addiction to this peninsula and its many fascinating places!
Because of Amigos de Baja and now, Baja Nomad, we know we are not alone! Maps and space posters of Baja on our walls, sea shells and rocks in our
gardens, a four wheel drive in our garage are all okay to have!
Viva Baja everyone!!!wiltonh - 4-11-2007 at 08:41 PM
You know that you are a Nomad if you are cleaning up the basement and you run across a box of pictures which are marked Baja 1974. You spend the next
hour going through them and going down memory lane.