BajaNomad - I am stranded in BC...need help to get out !!

I am stranded in BC...need help to get out !!

motoged - 4-10-2008 at 12:12 PM

Nomads,
I am stranded with my wife up here in British Columbia and need to get stranded in Mulege....with or without my wife...

I promise to pick up an FMT in Tecate, unless Mike can fly up here to get me outta here...

I know my way around down there and promise to not get lost more than twice a day west of town....

La Hacienda will likely put up with me some more so I won't need to bother many of you for a place to stay...

:lol:

Kell-Baja - 4-10-2008 at 12:13 PM

:lol:

standingwave - 4-10-2008 at 12:23 PM

motoged...ask your rescuer to take hwy 1 and stop in Lytton and pick me up too, eh... :lol:

or Mike can use the old airstrip... :lol:

Iflyfish - 4-10-2008 at 12:29 PM

Don't forget to stop in Beaverton, OR Eh?
Iflyfish

motoged - 4-10-2008 at 12:29 PM

SW,
Now, if the locals just set up a fish taco stand here, the ferry wait would be friendlier...

and the beach would be okay once it warms up and the water goes down....

TonyC - 4-10-2008 at 12:47 PM

Ged,

Sucks to be you dude. :biggrin:

Tony

Bajagypsy - 4-10-2008 at 01:02 PM

Swing by Saskatchewan to Please!!!

This is what we just finished with!

[Edited on 4-10-2008 by Bajagypsy]

Marie-Rose - 4-10-2008 at 01:04 PM

... and maybe if you get a bank loan you could take the BC Ferries over to Victoria and pick my esposo as well!!!!!

motoged - 4-10-2008 at 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by TonyC
Ged,

Sucks to be you dude. :biggrin:

Tony

Tony,

Yah....but I manage it ...sitting down :lol:

Hook - 4-10-2008 at 01:06 PM

So, when does it get nice in Saskatoon..................'round July?

Bajagypsy - 4-10-2008 at 01:12 PM

Ha, try August! we have even had snow in August. SEriously, yes usually around July/August it does start to get nice. It rained here yesterday, helped melt some snow! and the other day it was 6 degrees!!!! (we drank beer on the drive way in our parka's and hats!)

David K - 4-10-2008 at 01:15 PM

Ah, take off to the Great White North... fire up the Coleman, slap on some back-bacon, open a Molsen, eh? You hosers have 'The Baja' all to yourselves (almost) as we Yanks are mostly staying away lately...

Bob and Susan - 4-10-2008 at 01:18 PM

yesterday here in mulege...

maybe snow tomorrow :lol:

Hook - 4-10-2008 at 01:29 PM

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Originally posted by Bajagypsy
Ha, try August! we have even had snow in August. SEriously, yes usually around July/August it does start to get nice. It rained here yesterday, helped melt some snow! and the other day it was 6 degrees!!!! (we drank beer on the drive way in our parka's and hats!)

I'm dying to know why Saskatchewan was originally settled. Some kind of natural resources that made putting up with all that worthwhile? Furs, timber, minerals, game?

Bob and Susan - 4-10-2008 at 01:52 PM

diamonds :light:

shari - 4-10-2008 at 02:11 PM

I think you should just hijack a BC Ferry and you could fill it up on the way down with Nomads...too funny paisano...must say...moving to Baja was the best thing I ever did. OMG Gypsy..we are soooo sorry...sure looks pretty though...ya right eh.

Heather - 4-10-2008 at 02:42 PM

My mother was from Saskatchewan and I am so glad she moved South!

She was a nurse and went to Hawaii to work in the late 50's (I think it was the Canadian thing to do!) There she picked up my Marine Corps dad! She never went back North, except for visits, and those were usually in the summertime! Lucky me!

I think I followed her example because I went down to Cabo to meet my hubby. We're settled in SoCal, but get down to the in-laws in La Paz/Cabo whenever we get the chance! Saludos, Heather

Bob and Susan - 4-10-2008 at 03:07 PM

shari...

the diamonds are UNDERNEATH Sturgeon Lake...

just met a guy that works there :biggrin:

Bajagypsy - 4-10-2008 at 03:11 PM

I just think my forefathers (sp?) were drunk, that's why they stayed here :spingrin:

There are alot of natural resources, diamonds, oil, uranium, potash. I just prefer warmer climates!

vgabndo - 4-10-2008 at 04:08 PM

Ged...I'm glad to see that my motorcycle tank isn't the only pictured here with ELEPHANTITIS. Adds about 40 lbs. when full eh?

windgrrl - 4-10-2008 at 04:16 PM

:light:

Please drop down to Medicine Hat and pick us up after you leave Saskatoon and turn out the lights as you cross the Saskatchewan border.

I know the way to Baja, don't need many rest stops and can make sandwiches . :lol:

windgrrl - 4-10-2008 at 04:18 PM

Born in Moose Jaw. Forbears came to settle nearly free land with livestock from Scotland. Great grandpa brought first draft horses to Saskatchewan.

Parents got a chance to move to Alberta in 1967 and have been land-locked ever since!

motoged - 4-10-2008 at 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by vgabndo
Ged...I'm glad to see that my motorcycle tank isn't the only pictured here with ELEPHANTITIS. Adds about 40 lbs. when full eh?

Vgabndo,
Yep, 25 litres makes the sand whoops between Bahia de los Angeles and Coco's pure hell....but is nice between San Ignacio, El Datil, and San Raymundo to Mulege....

Ged

Bajagypsy - 4-10-2008 at 06:00 PM

Motoged, when should I expect you? I have packed!!! :lol:

motoged - 4-10-2008 at 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by Bajagypsy
Motoged, when should I expect you? I have packed!!! :lol:

Bajagypsy,
I wish I could....as a fellow Saskatchewaner (born in Theodore....which is between Sheho and Insinger:lol

, I have a hardy soul, a vision off into the horizon, and a penchant for dreaming.....

We seem to find another part of our soul in Baja....you folks make the trek in the winter months as I do, despite thinking of it daily.

Spring is around the corner...and then the mosquitos....and then the harvest moon and great sunsets as the fields are worked (or is that the poisonous air from Alberta?)....and then prep for another trip to Baja....

I must regretfully postpone the ride south until this next winter... :no:

Hook - 4-10-2008 at 07:09 PM

Two more good reason to leave Saskatchewan, there.

Boy, what a place for snow to accumulate........... :no:

Bob and Susan - 4-11-2008 at 05:51 AM

talk about "freezing your buns off" :lol:

motoged - 4-12-2008 at 09:38 AM

Nomads,
Wow !!! It appears as if some of us would rather be someplace else....like back in Baja :light:

If we hijacked a BC Ferry, we couldn't pick up Bajagypsy and family...but some form of caravan might be possible to get out of the cold and wet...

Mike certainly could bring all of us down in one trip....regardless of fuel costs.....although he knows where to drop us off...

We could all enjoy some roasted pig and share travel tales...

We could stop for a ....rest....whenever we needed to...

And make some new friends along the way....

capt. mike - 4-13-2008 at 07:52 AM

Ged - i feel for ya man! i just spent 5 days in Milwaukee WI freezing my pitootee off and its April by now, eh?

that shot of RW 32 at Serenidad warms me up. wish i was flyin there now, that's for sure you know , Eh?

sorry.........i picked up a bit of their vernacular whilst gabbing amongst the local color in the bars - something the Wisconsinites do quite well, you
know, eh? ya, you betcha.

i cannot imagine why anyone lives in the great north east or north mid west. my partner likes to sno mobile, he put 1700 miles on his 900 CC Polaris just this season.