El Jefe - 12-3-2004 at 06:58 PM
Paula and I have spent many a spring in Baja, often over her birthday. Here is a little thing I wrote for her in a card one year...just found it in
the drawer. Sappy stuff, but nice.
How many other lucky lovers are there out there who have found their love for one another enhanced by exploring Baja?
30 Abril, 2003
Dearest most beautiful Paula - my wife and best friend,
Tonight on your birthday here in our beloved Baja California Sur, I feel that I am the luckest man in the world. Here we are again smack-dab in the
middle of another of our great adventures. Isn't it wonderful that we have managed together to accomplish and experience so many things that would
boggle the minds or scare the pants off of so many other less adventuresome folks?
All of this is possible (even if not always prudent) because we share a love and faith in one another unmatched in the every-day world of ordinary
people. That which we cultivate, you and I, is a truely fine thing, something to be cherished, nurtured and fully appreciated for all our lives
together. And together we are - as one, so srong.
Today we exist on the same wavelength, the same track, yet different enough from each other to make life very interesting indeed! I hope you always
continue to fine me a little kookie, and I am sure I will forever be charmed by your excentricities.
We have a fabulous thing going on here, and I am thankful every day of my life that we share such moments together.
All my love - always, and Happy Birthday!
Your Tomas.
[Edited on 12-4-2004 by El Jefe]
Paula (La se?ora Jefe)
David K - 12-3-2004 at 07:10 PM
Quite a lady!
pappy - 12-4-2004 at 02:42 AM
el jefe-all ic an say is how fortunate you are to have a wife that loves baja! still looking for mine...
Thanks for sharing Jefe...
vgabndo - 12-4-2004 at 10:38 PM
Once upon a time, this 49 year old confirmed bachelor loaded his apprehensive bride of two days into an overloaded '78 Ford bubble-top camper van.
Sixteen days later we had seen Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Tamaulipis, Vera Cruz, Campeche,Quintana Roo, Belize City, Belmopan, Dangriga, and
we pulled up and parked under the coco palm in Placincia that I had picked out the year before when I was single. We inflated our Zodiak, put it in
the Carribean and kept going until we ran out of water on the Monkey River. Our honeymoon took us 8400 miles in 42 days. We have now been lado por
lado for most of the length of Baja 22 times. We've been lost, cold, scared, hungry, and peeed off, but we've always been together, loving and looking
out for each other. In a few days we'll celebrate twelve years married. A dozen years that have passed frighteningly fast.
I love her more now than then, and Jefe, I just couldn't let you get away with being the luckiest man in Baja all by yourself. i want my spot on the
podium! Good on ya buddy!
El Jefe - 12-5-2004 at 09:39 AM
Vgabndo,
Isn't it great? There's lots of room on that podium. There is a whole stage up there!
Thanks Jefe, I know we aren't alone!
vgabndo - 12-5-2004 at 12:30 PM
Mi co-pilota is also an artist/sculptor/paper-maker. She now paints in encaustic which doesn't work at our powerless place in Mexico.
For her, it doesn't get much better than this.....
[Edited on 12-5-2004 by vgabndo]
Must Be Something In The Water...
Cameron - 12-6-2004 at 02:57 AM
Proposed, Married, and living in Baja; (hopefully!) raising a tri-lingual family now. Is it something in the water??? 
BajaGrrls - 12-6-2004 at 09:40 AM
What a great thread! I guess there's a bit of a romantic in all of us. 
Neal Johns - 12-6-2004 at 01:27 PM
It is nice to have a lady that likes the wild places on the earth, especially Baja. I married mine 15 years ago - and found out she had driven a Jeep
all the way down Baja before I had. Then, she started claiming she was a better four wheel driver! Oh, the shame of it all!
Here she is hard at work in Canyon Jaquegel
Lucky ladies (and gentalmen)
Debra - 12-6-2004 at 01:33 PM
Keep up the good work guys! With the love that you obviously have for your wives I'm sure you will have many, many happy years. Wish we all had
that. 
You know what they say "when Momma's happy, everybody's happy!"
P.S. Marion had better be careful though. WIW #86 
[Edited on 12-6-2004 by Debra]
JESSE - 12-6-2004 at 05:51 PM
Your a lucky man Jefe, cheers!!!
Count me in
Me No - 12-7-2004 at 10:25 AM
Met her at the internet cafe in Sta. Rosalia. Married her 2 years later.
Germanicus - 12-7-2004 at 12:27 PM
another one > couple to count in.
Married for 26 years and still in love with each other.
well, maybe hubby Frank is another "Gentalman" to Tina.
elgatoloco - 12-11-2004 at 09:25 PM
Great Thread!
My wife and I first met in Baja at a party in July 1978. We spent the rest of that summer together. Saw each other once in the subsequent sixteen
years, in Baja, until running into each other again, in Baja, August 11th 1995. She gave me her phone number. We had our first date the second time
around on September 16th at La Fonda then on to Tijuana Tilly's for more dancing and fun. We have been together ever since and after our third date ,
in Baja at Cueva de Los Tigres I knew I was going to marry her. We celebrated 5 years of wedded bliss October 2nd this year. Here is a photo of her
taken in Baja on our honeymoon modeling some HOT earrings.
VIVA BAJA!
great foto gato!
woody with a view - 12-11-2004 at 09:36 PM
what, a truck took a turn too fast?
El Jefe - 12-12-2004 at 12:02 AM
Gato! I think I know where that photo was taken. Is that the old section of road right north of the approach to the long bridge just southeast of El
Rosario? They are always drying chilis there, no?
Paula and I met in 1982 at my cousins wedding in Orange County. We were hooked up by all my girl cousins who knew Paula for years. Of course being the
guy I was clueless to the arrangement.
I had her over to my house for dinner a week later and invited her to drive to Baja with me. A week later she said yes and we drove all the way to
lands end in my '69 VW bus. It was love at first tope, and lust at las curvas pelegrosas.
elgatoloco - 12-12-2004 at 10:53 AM
You are a lucky guy El Jefe!
Funny how things play out sometimes. I know I too are a lucky guy!!
You are correct on the location of the chili drying 'station'.
Last time we drove by there we noticed a new struture on the southside of the road heading towards the bridge approach that appeared to be a new
drying station. No more roadside drying?
Me No - 12-12-2004 at 12:38 PM
They were still drying chilis there when I passed through Nov. 17.
Nice photos.
What I want to know is what those beautiful ladies are doing with you guys?
It is nice to have a better half though!
Old Pole line Road?
Barry A. - 12-12-2004 at 12:56 PM
Neil-------Is that the old "Pole line Road' between Arroyo Grande on the east and El Jamau on the west? If so, I have never travelled it, and from
your pic I can see why. Is it still passable both ways in a Jeep? I would like to do that trip some day. Barry
Germanicus - 12-12-2004 at 01:22 PM
Mrs. Germanicus (Tina) here.
Well, I can not speak for other ladies > of course not.
I just can tell you, MeNo, what I am doing with Frank.
Treat your hubby like a king and he will treat you like a Queen.
Well, you can look at other guys > make yourself appetit ........
BUT: Breakfast is at home!
Need more? gimme a call, there are thousands of good advices I can give, if they work with others, is a different story......