Is this my Baja?

I have a certain love for Baja and the suprises and joys it continues to provide. A very special place and friend.

It really is in flux as of late. The last 10 years have literally changed the face and makeup of the land we hold precious and dear.

Along with the changes in landscape come changes in the environment and a range of different philosophies regarding its' future.

There are diverse ideas on how we are to interact regardless of legality. It's legal to smoke for instance, but not to take threatened species. See the parallel?

It is not shocking to hear discourse and ridicule when the topic does not abide the looker. We DO take our relationship with the penninsula quite personal and passionately.
It is much the same in this forum.

From the realms of many fields, this Nomad group constitutes an important cross-section of social demographics and similar or opposed likes and/or dislikes.

It's a good marriage.

The field is extensive, fishermen and scholars, engineers and housewives, passionate surfers and turtle huggers alike join together in this two demenional world in order to assess,evaluate, quantify and determine their place in a 3 demensional world .....and they do it right here. Whew!

Really, look at us. We are so diverse in many aspects but a strong glue binds us(well most of us) together. We forgive the simple divisions between us so we can enjoy the mana generously served up by our brethren.

Enormous value is gleaned from our time that we take, in our precious lives, to partake here. More than that, real-time lessons of great importance are taught, provided and gleaned.

My future experiences and mindset will most certainly reflect stuff I heard and learned here. Just a matter of sorting out the chaff sometimes. That can be tedious..

Think of a circle of friends or rather "cyber" pals. Within this circle exists other circles of like-minded individuals who bond through similar interests and thoughts. .

To be fair I must add that folks new to the circle be patient and extremely cautious. I think we sometimes forget the profound effect that we sometimes have on new people.

Afterall, some of us spend "valuable" time here....and there.


On the same token, we can be a huge obstacle for those trying to express a thought or experience.

All this of course is new age stuff. We can't realize or understand trhe results or ramifications for say, 40 years from now when we will be cited for provocatives statements.
We could also have huge communities in Baja of Nomads replete with all the trimmings.

Is that farfetched? I'm not so sure, the number of players, lurkers or not, are acquiring the same info available anywhere, anytime on the internet.

What will we see ten or twenty years down the road? Will we see Gringos assimilated everywhere in Baja like that of Mexicans in California? Will we insist on altering Baja to accomodate our thirst for pleasure, adventure and relaxation at the cost of social and physical conversion?

I wonder about that. We have seen the end product so many other places. Somehow though, I think and hope our group is a bit different.

While there are plenty of deep-pocketed aristocratic types out there, there is an equal or greater amount of nostalgic, keep it slow and low types around here.

I hold on to that notion which will slow the inevitable Catapillar from an ugly metamorpohsis. No matter how "good" it looks to some.

Wow you really put alot of thought and time into that post. I for one appreciate that.

Well Said!