Baja Bernie - 12-11-2004 at 08:46 PM
I have tried to answer your U-2-U but when I try to send it I keep getting a message that you do not exist.
What can I say?
Gypsy Jan - 12-11-2004 at 10:26 PM
Hi Bernie,
I'm here, and do not have any idea about a "do not exist" unless...it's karma catching up (smile, joke, etc.)
Please try again.
Truthfully and bodily, yours,
Gypsy Jan
Gypsy Jan
Baja Bernie - 12-13-2004 at 08:13 PM
Still having problems with U2U so I will just respond here. It was nice to hear that you found one of my books for sale in the used book rack at a
local Library--at least they are getting around and a few people are reading them. Really got a kick out of you telling how you got turned on by
finding Baja HaHa by Fred Hoctor in the same manner and being turned on to Baja as a result. Hope that happens with my books for some people. I
sought Fred out for some help with my first book and we met three times at his place down south. Got a lot of good advise but got peeed off when our
forth meeting was put off because he up and died. Quite a man. When I found that his widow had inherited about $20,000 worth of medical bills in
Baja and that she was trying to pay them off I offered to sell his book on my website with all of the proceeds going to her. Not a lot but she says
that it does help. I also carry The Grinning Gargoyle by Jimmy Smith with the money going to Donna Lupe ( a little more of a problem getting the
money to her).
With Jimmy's books I have a few signed copies that I am selling to real collectors for $50.00 a pop--have sold a few and she really appreciates the
money. Won't be anymore of these because I got him to sign them while he was in the VA hospital and we both knew that he was not going to be around
for long. We kidded about the fact that they would be worth a lot more after he was gone.
One of the hardest things I have had to do was drop him and Sara off at the TJ airport for his last trip home. They both looked so damn lost.
Really miss Don Jimmy! What a guy.
Okay, About JR (he can sweat about what we are talking about) You are probable right. He and I have talked about most of the things you mentioned
and I like the guy a lot.
Back to Fred Hoctor's and Jimmy's books--I was hoping we would get a good play for them over the holiday season as the ladies can sure use the dough.
So, again thanks for your comments and, perhaps we will meet in person one of these days.
Oh brother !!
jrbaja - 12-13-2004 at 11:34 PM
Gringo drama
Gypsy Jan - 12-13-2004 at 11:53 PM
Bernie, my new friend,
Selling books is a difficult and deviously murky (incestious) business, I wish that I could give you some guidance.
This story will be pertinate, but it won't offer answers.
My father was a prominent sports columnist and feature writer for the Herald and the Times in LA in the 50's and 60's.
He wrote several well reviewed novels and biographies, most notably, Ronald Reagan's first autobiography, but now, sadly, all of his books are now out
of print.
I think that your stories, Fred Hoctor's columns and books, and many other contributers (Mike Humphreville and David K, just to mention a very few),
are priceless historical memoirs of a fast changing and disappearing unique and precious environment and life attitude.
Best regards,
Gypsy Jan
JR
Baja Bernie - 12-14-2004 at 09:14 PM
I think not! Drama is when you take pictures of blonde haired and blue eyed beautiful Mexican kids, post them on the net and create all kinds of
interest and comments--that is drama my friend.
Really?
jrbaja - 12-14-2004 at 09:55 PM
I don't get it. Those are cute Mexican kids that I felt were worthy of some pictures.
That was real life!
I don't get the drama part. Unless you are talking about my "passing surfer" comments when I first posted them..
Mike Humfreville - 12-19-2004 at 03:42 AM
One writer might want immortality.
A second might write for the memory
of a favorite scene. But I?m caught in between.
When the shutters click
and the minute hands tick
we?re all still faced with reality.
A third writer?s style may extend to be
an image not tied to just what we see
of our favorite scene. And, still caught in between,
but buoyed by faith
in our human race
I must write about what still might be.
My point, in this thread I somehow missed earlier, is that some folks put pen to paper because they want to be remembered. Others do the same to
record events they feel are important.
Yet there is another writer, one who cannot not write (read that again, it?s not a typo), one who screams to tell the story as he/she sees it, who
would strangle on his/her own images if the story could not be told because it is worthy with his/her own view.
The few people we encounter that have any wish to write at all, fall, partially or entirely, into one of these three categories, compartments if we
must, in my mind.
I put myself somewhere between 2 and 3 in my silly poem.
When I?m sitting, back in the States, and wondering what I?m doing here, writing my memories, from past experiences or from a recent trip where we met
folks on a quiet beach, is an escape. Additionally, in tearing myself away from the intensity of the workplace, I see the contrasts between where I
am and where I have been on other occasions.
And, ultimately, I guess I want a little of the three monkeys in my poem to exist in recognition of their own individual worlds. To recognize that
there is always more than one vantage point.
The Press awaits.
Yeah, right!
Mike and David K
Baja Bernie - 12-19-2004 at 08:40 PM
The Lady does say such nice things. Makes one feel so good about the world--at least our world of Baja.
Crazy place to say it--but--A Baja Merry Christmas to all of you Nomads.
Gypsy Jan - 12-19-2004 at 11:04 PM
Urrhh uhhmm, (pause, clear throat)
What nice comments
I am very flattered that this post seems to have a continuing life.
I love and live in Baja and care very much about the people who who are passionate and postal?
Best regards,
Gypsy Jan 
Postal?
Mike Humfreville - 12-20-2004 at 01:34 AM
going postal
Bruce R Leech - 12-20-2004 at 07:40 AM
If most of the people are going postal then maybe you should be careful.
Gyspy Jan
Baja Bernie - 12-20-2004 at 01:18 PM
I believe that Mike is passionate about Baja and I know that I surely am. David is not only passionate---he is rabid.
Postal! I wonder just how this fits the young, David, the middle aged, Mike, and most importantly the mature, yours truly.
Throw is a few more words like that one and this thread will have as many lives as cat. AND, I'm sure that we will all learn how to better express
ourselves.
Woops! did you mean tumble or "humble" quite a difference if you know what I mean.
The mature one signing off and waiting for life number eight.
[Edited on 12-20-2004 by Baja Bernie]
Gypsy Jan - 12-20-2004 at 06:54 PM
Postal, hmm, stamping and licking... (no, better not go there 
)
Anyhoo, as I read and enjoy the postings of the Bajaholics, I have a term I made up to describe someone who goes overboard on a subject, or misses the
intent of the subject completely to segue into a mostly incomprehensible rant on a personal issue that doesn't pertain.
Hence, the phrase "postal"
I still love those contributors, in a meet-you-on-the-BB, but-that's-all kind of way.
I'm working on a glossary of my terms, may post more on it later.
Regards to all,
Gypsy Jan
Speaking of "Overboard" and "Postal"
jrbaja - 12-20-2004 at 07:49 PM
This thread was addressed to Gypsy Jan inquiring about a u2u message.
14 replies and 396 views?
I seem to have misplaced the actual subject of this thread. But, here I am anyways
Middle aged? Mike?
Debra - 12-20-2004 at 08:21 PM
Hey? How many 120yr. +++ old people do I know? Not many......wait......Oh yeah, Mike......
,David K., young?????? Okie dokie......
G. Jan, you are very sweet, but, I think you need to meet some of these silly guys (well the 2 I mentioned at least)
JR: Lighten up please.....you mention that this was addressed from BB to G. Jan, and yet you responded 3 times........get a grip Pal, it's all
okay......surely you wern't saying that others that posted to this thread shouldn't, but you should, and several times? And JMHO......I think the "
you gringo" reference is wearing a bit thin. But, what the heck do I know? 
Here we go again.
jrbaja - 12-20-2004 at 09:07 PM
I am beginning to think that what I think of as humor, directly affects certain Baja ofishyonadas. No comprende!
After reading back through my "anti-american" posts on this thread, I couldn't find where I had said "you gringos" anywhere.
But, that's ok, I am getting used to it here.
Let me guess, now that you have tried to make something else out of what I was trying to say, you won't reply to this.
Viva Mexico!!
David K - 12-20-2004 at 10:17 PM
Age is how you feel... When I am in Baja or just thinking about Baja (most of the time), I feel young. I am perhaps closing in on 'middle age' (at
47?)! However, the oldest Nomad is (by his own admission) Mr. Neal Johns (Aridologist)!!! He is in Baja right now getting younger (or getting more
Wives in Waiting?)...
Mike Humfreville is an eternal kid in a candy store, when in Baja... Only the multiple boxes of wine he camps with would give away his age as being
over 21!
Debra (formerly known as travelpearl) will age if she doesn't get out of that cold bog near Seattle and come back to Baja... and soon! Otherwise she
might look like she is in her mid thirties, clearly ten years more than her true Baja age!
Sounds like it is getting close to Baja gang gathering time? Get down to Bahia de L.A., or Baja Lou's near San Felipe, and bring in the New Year with
your Baja buddies!! It can only make you young, again!
#1 - 12-20-2004 at 10:40 PM
I know this is veering off the thread a little, but one of my favorite clients is 87 years old. Every year he and his wife go to Hawaii for two
weeks(her trip) and then Sun Valley Idaho for one week to snowski (his trip). When he was 80 he wiped out and broke his leg, his doctor told him he
had to stop skiing. You know what he did? Yep, he got a new doctor.
JR, knock off the photos...
Capt. George - 12-21-2004 at 09:07 AM
I'm getting homesick!!
Sorry George
jrbaja - 12-21-2004 at 09:26 AM
I thought that the clutter in my favorite living room was a pretty good example of this thread