We are at Juanita's guesthouse in San Ignacio - it is a living museum. She has been gracious and has let the bike club stay overnight !!
If you haven't been - make it a destination !!! it is fantastic and I am so happy to be here
time to go get a bite to eat .....Bajahowodd - 8-28-2010 at 12:56 PM
It is a great place. One note of caution. If you're going to San Ignacio during whale season, make reservations in advance. Not many rooms.shari - 8-28-2010 at 01:08 PM
that is fantastic...Juanita is a wonderful woman and has done so much for her community...nice to see her helping out the bike club too...enjoy your
stay and hope the racers do well.BajaBlanca - 9-3-2010 at 08:55 AM
We had a wonderful time at Casa Leree ... if you want a very inexpensive, cozy, comfortable place to stay - this is it ! Her rooms run $40 a night
... a super deal. Adn you are staying in the FIRST AND THEREFORE OLDEST guesthouse in San Ignacio. There is a stream running thru the property and
the coolest part of our day was putting our feet in it to cool down.
There are albums of photographs dating back to the 1800's, there are artifacts and objects all around a number of rooms in the main house - all free
for anyone to enter and roam about at will ...
The boys raced and won. they can't wait to go back ...
Now I have thousands of photographs that need to be printed so I can have the same collection here for the La Bocana museum ... anyone got access to
Kodak or Costco or developing for free ?????Cypress - 9-3-2010 at 04:40 PM
Casa Leree! A real classy place!woody with a view - 9-3-2010 at 04:42 PM
costco. what do you need?Eli - 9-3-2010 at 07:15 PM
Always great to read that Casa Leree is alive and well after all these years. I believe the place has a spirit of it's own and am glad to hear that it
has Juanita to watch over it. I truly hope to visit there again someday as certainly it holds fond memories for me.Udo - 9-4-2010 at 09:20 AM
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costco. what do you need?
David K - 9-4-2010 at 10:10 AM
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Originally posted by woody with a view
costco. what do you need?
"...anyone got access to Kodak or Costco or developing for free ?????"woody with a view - 9-4-2010 at 07:48 PM
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Originally posted by woody with a view
costco. what do you need?
"...anyone got access to Kodak or Costco or developing for free ?????"
seeing as i can be rather slow at times, 'cept when gps is involved, i THOUGHT Blanca asked if anyone has access to costco OR free developing.
i have a costco card......?BajaBlanca - 9-7-2010 at 09:37 AM
sorry, internet was down for a couple days ....
I have the files for downloading old Baja photos - what I need is help to sponsor this humongous project, so I am hoping that one of us nomaders have
access to film developing.
We do have a costco card of our own but there are thousands of photos - no way can I pay for this so ............. my quest is for someone who has
friends in very high places at Kodak or another place for developing and who might be willing to cooperate financially on this project. The goal is to
have photographic albums here for the La Bocana Museum.
any suggestions would be welcome as to how best to handle this.
edited to make myself clearer and spelling correction
[Edited on 9-10-2010 by BajaBlanca]Iflyfish - 9-7-2010 at 09:46 AM
See your U2U.
Iflyfishshari - 9-7-2010 at 09:47 AM
I know it is time consuming but what about scanning some of the best ones so they are recorded digitally...then you can print em...maybe someone would
bring you down some ink refills...I'd print them in sepia tones! just a thought to get things moving...I've been scanning old photos of Ojo de Liebre
like that....good luck on your latest project Blanca..you rock!!Iflyfish - 9-7-2010 at 09:48 AM
I am not clear from your post.
Do you have digital images that you need editing, cleaning up and then printed? There is great technology for this now. It is not hard to sharpen and
clean up images.
Are you using all of the images you have?
Are these images on a disk?
IflyfishIflyfish - 9-7-2010 at 09:51 AM
One can print photo's via a printer with photo quality ink and paper. If rinting photos with normal ink and paper the ink is not water proof and will
fade over time vs photo paper and ink.
If the images are already digitalized then it is not difficult to send them to a processor for printing. It would be good to edit the images before
you do the printing.
Iflyfishbajalera - 9-7-2010 at 01:12 PM
Great place--one of two where EVERY gringo bajaficionado stopped in the days of the old bad road, the other being Espinosa's in El Rosario. Probably
not a coincidence that both had a pleasant lady who spoke really good English in charge of things--Rebecca Carillo at Leree's and Mama at Espinosa's.
That stream is an acequia, the channel that wound through town providing residents with water. Someone has apparently had the good sense to preserve
it, although the last time we were there it was only running one day a week.BajaBlanca - 9-8-2010 at 07:12 AM
Bajalera - how interesting about the acequia - as far as I know, it runs every day - and it was so cool - literally - to sink our feet into it during
the steamy hot days .....
Les and I had a photo printer and did not have good luck with it - but Juanita does her own printing and I may in fact do our own printing againJuanita - 9-8-2010 at 07:37 AM
When I am feeling low, I like to read this thread. Especially, I am interested in the posts from travelers who visited Casa Leree in the old days,
because of course I did not see it then. The old acequia is doing well now. Hector Arce has done a lot of work single handed in the past few years
to clean it up, benefiting his grape harvest. And we had a big team working for a couple of months after a flood. Mysteriously, in the last couple
of weeks the level of the presa and the flow of the acequia have grown stronger, without anyone doing anything!
Blanca has the whole "Foto Archivo de San Ignacio" on a remote memory, all digitalized, and she is now puzzling over how to print 800 plus photos,
which I have done, but slowly. She wants to present the collection to her local community in La Bocana. Good luck, Blanca. Among us all, the old
photos will have a long life.
[Edited on 9-8-2010 by Juanita]Iflyfish - 9-8-2010 at 08:15 AM
Here are some photo printer options, I like CNET reviews. The big expense is the paper and ink.
