Baja Bernie - 12-22-2004 at 06:12 PM
Baja
Sitting here
In my small little room
Remembering
Quiet reigns
The winds blow
And the sands sear
Silence
Tall mountains
Pines and palms
Whispering of the waves
Crashing of the surf
Moaning
Cities are few
But villages abound
People
So few
So quiet
So proud
No strangers here
Smiles abound
Help is near
What is yours is mine
And what is mine is yours
Helping and caring
So little talk
But much understanding
Even more caring
People coming together
Sharing and caring
Understanding
My Baja?just about gone
To all of my friends on the Nomad Board--Enjoy the solitude of Baja before it is gone.
El Jefe - 12-22-2004 at 06:27 PM
Nice Bernie. Thanks for that. Isn't it just so that everything we fall in love with changes and often deteriorates in the end? Kind of like life, I
guess.
Oso - 12-22-2004 at 06:37 PM
Yeah Bern, although not strictly in haiku form, it has that feel to it.
Now, sit quietly on the beach and imagine screaming sirens on a multi-lane freeway...
Oso
Baja Bernie - 12-22-2004 at 07:07 PM
Thanks for the nice words they mean so much to me because you have influenced my knowledge and understanding of Baja with all of your sharing.
Please resume your wonderful stories--the last one I remember caused me to buy the book---the guide to Tequila--just kidding it was The Pigs in the
Barber Shop.
About the sirens--I got sick of them at my home in La Salina. Thanks
Oh Que Bernie!
Eli - 12-22-2004 at 07:44 PM
You finally got me to break my silence with that one. Good poem, buttttttt, the silence is still there, just move over a little.
Remember the suggestion of the Sage of Baja; take a half full can of tecate and toss it as hard as you can West of highway 1 and there where it lands
the old Baja again begins, nothing changed once you get away from the Gringo Strip.
I remember a few years back, going up in the hills West of San Antonio. I was sitting by the truck fileing my nails and the noise of the file against
my nail was ever so obtrusive to the silence there. I am sure that there in the sierra's today it is the same silence that I heard that day and that
has been there for as long as the place has exisited.
Your Baja is still there, just a little furture to go to get there, but there is still 1,000's of sq. kilometers of untouched Baja still there for
those of us who choose to get off the beaten path and go in search of the silence.
Saludos, Sara
And Bernie and Eli
jrbaja - 12-22-2004 at 08:52 PM
there is always room for you guys as I hope you are aware. No driving necessary and ice cream if we make it!
msawin - 12-22-2004 at 09:05 PM
Well I have to say.........
I have never been in a place that I had to remove the batteries from the clock on the wall, noise, breaking the silence at Tripui at night...Can
not express that in a way that if you where not there....
Today the question is do I rebuild back there agian or move to town..Noise.The smell of autos driving late into the night, very late into the
nite.
what to do for what you want..
martin-o
Marty...
flyfishinPam - 12-22-2004 at 11:49 PM
buy my next door neighbor's lot!! He has title and the electricity will be coming soon (so they say). You know its quite up here and we could use
cool neighbors!
Pam y Francisco
Mike Humfreville - 12-23-2004 at 12:19 AM
We moved out of the small towns north of LA many years ago and settled into rural settings. While I miss neighbors, friends and close-by compadres, I
have learned that I could never return to the noises of others. Like Marty says, I have to take the batteries out for all the din. That makes life
difficult in my working environment.
But not in Baja. I'm thinking like I was 16 again and could read the time by the sun. Soon that will serve me once again. Retired in Baja, what
difference does an hour make? Living on Mexican Time.