Originally posted by Neal Johns
Baja California Adventures - Froylan Tiscareno (2013) $15
The cover of this 500 page book is misleading; Froy Tiscareno was an early explorer of Baja by foot and four wheel drive and only in later years used
a motorhome and private airplane to take his family there.
He was born in Mexico and somehow ended up in UCLA and is completely anglicized. As a young student and later, he hung out, hiked, traveled and
visited with Baja greats like John Robinson, Bud Bernhard, BajaBob Vinton, and Aida and Salve Meling; while as a historian, he translated two of the
works of Jesuit Miguel Del Barco. He was friends of Harry Crosby, Ed Vernon, and Michael Mathes.
In the early days before the Observatory road, how did you get to the meadows like La Grulla in the Sierra de San Pedro Martir? Why shucks, you went
to the bottom of La Mora Canyon and went UP! Highly recommended.
[Edited on 11-22-2013 by Neal Johns] |
,) he should have put a different vehicle on a two track on the cover.
Several great people who have opened up Baja
in the ares few would have been brave enough to attempt. Baja is a land of adventure! I love reading how Guadalupe Canyon Hot Springs were just $2 per
car for camping there (p. 187) in March 1975.
