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National Geographic article on BCS

pauldavidmena - 7-26-2019 at 05:42 AM

I'm not sure when National Geographic turned into a travel brochure, but this article describing "the ultimate roadtrip" through Baja California Sur seems, shall we say, "superficial". It seems the writer is a freelance journalist who might not have had to get up from her table at Starbucks to produce this piece. Am I in the wrong business?

bajafam - 7-26-2019 at 07:39 AM

It was published in National Geographic Traveler and I find most travel articles to be like this, even super popular guides like Moon and Lonely Planet.

Freelance travel writers often seem afraid to express themselves in any deeper way, as if the lyrical flow of carefully crafted words is off-putting to the average reader.

I'm a freelance writer, myself, and cringe at most of the content online. It's boring, dry, and lacks any type of passion or joy. I guess that's what happens when your audience decides what to read by the amount of time it takes to read it. It's depressing.

I'm bookmarking your wordpress. Your words are beautiful and I'd like to take my time to read them.

4x4abc - 7-26-2019 at 08:50 AM

"...San José del Cabo is known for Spanish colonial architecture, the massive circa-1730 mission cathedral..."

I bet David is already typing

David K - 7-26-2019 at 09:06 AM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
"...San José del Cabo is known for Spanish colonial architecture, the massive circa-1730 mission cathedral..."

I bet David is already typing


LOL!
The date a mission was founded (1730 in this case) was not when a stone or adobe church was built. That came years later!

Here is the final San José del Cabo mission church in bad shape, in 1918:


The mission was abandoned around 1840. Dominicans remained on the peninsula until 1855.

The church on that site today was built in the mid-1900s...


A Howard Gulick photo from 1957.


My photo in 2012.


[Edited on 7-26-2019 by David K]

Howard - 7-26-2019 at 09:20 AM

There appears to be a 16 minute gap before David answered.

David, may we please have a full accounting of your time that was more important than responding? :biggrin:

Thank you,

Howard

David K - 7-26-2019 at 09:50 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Howard  
There appears to be a 16 minute gap before David answered.

David, may we please have a full accounting of your time that was more important than responding? :biggrin:

Thank you,

Howard


LOL!
Well, I would have answered Harald sooner if I wasn't on Facebook when he asked. LOL
Have a fun day!

Jinete Viejo - 7-26-2019 at 02:12 PM

Curiously, the paragraph on Cabo Pulmo has a link to info on Magdalena Bay.

JoeJustJoe - 7-27-2019 at 05:20 AM

It appears there are two publications here, the old "National Geographic," that has been around for years, and the " National Geographic Traveler," that publishes it's travel magazine six times a year.

So an "ultimate roadtrip" through Baja California Sur," is not beyond the purview of the " National Geographic Traveler."

Maybe, some older men get upset thinking the old " National Geographic," has change, because they remember fondly before "Playboy" magazine, the "National Geographic" served that role as a porn magazine to many young boys growing up in that era, with the magazines full of photos of bare breasted native females!

Another thing I notice around here, is that whenever there is a travel article of a Mexican/Baja destination it always gets mercifully attacked for supposedly being badly written fluff pieces that's mostly inaccurate according to many here.

Give them a break, it's a travel article, and most of these articles have some fluff, that tries to entice travelers who may be thinking of a Mexico trip, and so it helps tourism.

Listing the Mexican homicide body count with each travel article would be in bad taste in my opinion.