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Wonderhussy continues her Baja adventure......

BornFisher - 2-17-2021 at 10:07 PM

South from Puertecitos... she was following her guides and well at least they visited Coco---

https://youtu.be/KVDPEp-DjBQ

ehall - 2-18-2021 at 08:14 AM

Thanks for the link. She is entertaining. Now I have to go watch the first 2 episodes.

AKgringo - 2-18-2021 at 09:48 AM

So Coco lost his legs in a water tank accident? I wonder if that was before, or after the complications from diabetes?

Does anyone recognize the final stop on this video? My guess is Punta Abreojos, but that is based only on the drivetime from Guerrero Negro!

I look forward to seeing her slower version of the drive back north.

55steve - 2-18-2021 at 10:46 AM

Coco's amputations are both diabetes related according to Coco.

KurtG - 2-18-2021 at 11:33 AM

Quote: Originally posted by 55steve  
Coco's amputations are both diabetes related according to Coco.


When I first met Coco around 1991 or so he told he told me that he had lost his leg in an accident at Las Arrastras. Said he was helping his brother move a tank and it dropped on his leg, blamed his brother for not getting him to medical help until it was too late to save the leg. Before losing the second leg he denied being diabetic but it seemed pretty clear to me that he probably was but I have no medical background to back up that opinion. He also told me a bit about working in the states and in particular a driving trip he had made to Miami but was vague about the reason for the trip. His stories are entertaining and I have always admired him for creating his own little world out there in that remote spot,

[Edited on 2-18-2021 by KurtG]

[Edited on 2-19-2021 by KurtG]

David K - 2-18-2021 at 11:34 AM

Steve is correct... He was one-legged for years (and hoped they would take the other, as it bothered him so much).

July 2001

Desert Rat, Travelpearl, Sarah, and David Eidell pose with Coco at Coco's Corner.

Skipjack Joe - 2-18-2021 at 12:14 PM

Driving 85mph on highway 1? Wow.

boe4fun - 2-18-2021 at 07:02 PM

Our group of volunteers visited Coco many years ago on the way to our prosthetic clinic in La Paz. Dr. Bob Haining was with us on the trip and diagnosed Coco as having atherosclerosis, which can be included in a group PVD’s (peripheral vascular diseases) which may result in amputation. So if Coco suffered an accident it was most likely the underlying condition that helped create the need for an amputation. The second amputation was the result of arterial occlusion caused by atherosclerosis.

KurtG - 2-19-2021 at 11:39 AM

Quote: Originally posted by boe4fun  
Our group of volunteers visited Coco many years ago on the way to our prosthetic clinic in La Paz. Dr. Bob Haining was with us on the trip and diagnosed Coco as having atherosclerosis, which can be included in a group PVD’s (peripheral vascular diseases) which may result in amputation. So if Coco suffered an accident it was most likely the underlying condition that helped create the need for an amputation. The second amputation was the result of arterial occlusion caused by atherosclerosis.


Thanks for that info, it is of interest to me not only as regarding Coco but as one who suffers from a much less acute version of PVD as well as some peripheral nerve damage resulting only in minor neuropathy.

4x4abc - 2-21-2021 at 10:44 AM

painful to watch! "Karen travels in the Baja". Racing through paradise to put stickers on Coco's toilet.

TMW - 2-21-2021 at 11:02 AM

To add a little more confusion to Coco's legs. The lady that Coco stays with in San Felipe when he is there for a race told me that Coco lost his leg unloading pipe from a truck in Ensenada. The one leg had to be amputated and the other had bad circulation issues and it had to be amputated which was done several years ago which everyone knows about. Actually it had to be cut twice because the surgeon didn't cut it square across the first time.

I get the feeling than Coco tells whatever comes to mind at the time he is telling it.

motoged - 2-21-2021 at 11:39 AM

Quote: Originally posted by TMW  


I get the feeling than Coco tells whatever comes to mind at the time he is telling it.


Kinda like the rest of us....nothing unusual. What comes out of a person's mouth reflects what they are thinking at the moment....

And as I have said before..... "Don't believe everything you think..."

At least that's what I think....:biggrin:

AKgringo - 2-21-2021 at 11:52 AM

It would be interesting to read the results, if Coco was to sit down with a ghost writer to produce an autobiography.

I predict it would be lots of head scratching, and more than a few laughs comparing it to the stories he has told over the years. There would probably be a very confused ghost writer as well!

[Edited on 2-21-2021 by AKgringo]

willardguy - 2-21-2021 at 02:05 PM

Coco star of stage and screen! there can't be another Jorge Enrique Corral Sandez can there?:light:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970504/?ref_=nm_knf_t2

eight minutes of fame

David K - 2-21-2021 at 03:44 PM

Coco was in that 'Tracing Cowboys' movie filmed at Papa's and Alfonsinas, too. See him and the corner/ guest book at Minute 3:00+





[Edited on 2-21-2021 by David K]

BajaParrothead - 2-21-2021 at 07:48 PM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  

Does anyone recognize the final stop on this video? My guess is Punta Abreojos, but that is based only on the drivetime from Guerrero Negro!
Santispac

Bajazly - 2-21-2021 at 08:51 PM

Well that's 19 and half minutes you'll never get back. Winey snively waste of good air.

AKgringo - 2-21-2021 at 09:20 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BajaParrothead  
Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  

Does anyone recognize the final stop on this video? My guess is Punta Abreojos, but that is based only on the drivetime from Guerrero Negro!
Santispac


Thanks, that makes sense! I thought that their destination was a beach on the Pacific side.

ehall - 2-22-2021 at 06:05 AM

So many sourpusses on here. If you don't like the video don't watch it. Why would you watch for 19 and a half minutes then b-tch about it?

David K - 2-22-2021 at 08:46 AM

She and two other vehicles zoomed to Santispac (from Puertecitos) and then they were going to pace their trip back north in smaller sections. I watched the first three episodes and will see the others when she posts them. It is a casual travel video from a Baja newbie (I hope she learns they are called 'elephant trees', lol).

Don Pisto - 2-22-2021 at 08:54 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
She and two other vehicles zoomed to Santispac (from Puertecitos) and then they were going to pace their trip back north in smaller sections. I watched the first three episodes and will see the others when she posts them. It is a casual travel video from a Baja newbie (I hope she learns they are called 'elephant trees', lol).


whats not to like!:yes:

http://wonderhussy.com/freedom/

Skipjack Joe - 2-22-2021 at 08:59 AM

Quote: Originally posted by ehall  
So many sourpusses on here. If you don't like the video don't watch it. Why would you watch for 19 and a half minutes then b-tch about it?


That's why.

Don Pisto - 2-22-2021 at 09:26 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Bajazly  
Well that's 19 and half minutes you'll never get back. Winey snively waste of good air.


im lost....its an hour and a half movie and you gave up at 19 minutes.......where are you folks seeing this? all I get is the trailer:?:

wilderone - 2-22-2021 at 09:36 AM

Turned me off in 30 seconds.

"...the Great American Train Wreck that is the 2016 election, but also out of genuine curiosity as to just exactly what type of person would vote for Donald Trump. His televised rhetoric sometimes comes across as mean-spirited and thuggish; surely there wouldn’t be many conservatives with enough spare time on their hands to support this kind of shtick …"

David K - 2-22-2021 at 10:19 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto  
Quote: Originally posted by Bajazly  
Well that's 19 and half minutes you'll never get back. Winey snively waste of good air.


im lost....its an hour and a half movie and you gave up at 19 minutes.......where are you folks seeing this? all I get is the trailer:?:


It is a 19 minute YouTube show (one of three so far, about the same length): https://youtu.be/KVDPEp-DjBQ

Don Pisto - 2-22-2021 at 10:27 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto  
Quote: Originally posted by Bajazly  
Well that's 19 and half minutes you'll never get back. Winey snively waste of good air.


im lost....its an hour and a half movie and you gave up at 19 minutes.......where are you folks seeing this? all I get is the trailer:?:


It is a 19 minute YouTube show (one of three so far, about the same length): https://youtu.be/KVDPEp-DjBQ


:lol:..oops my bad! I thought we were talking about Tracing Cowboys!