looks like Coco was found dead today..BornFisher - 8-30-2022 at 03:30 PM
Sad news. Rest in peace Coco.AKgringo - 8-30-2022 at 03:43 PM
Sorry to hear that! He was an interesting character, I usually stopped by his place, and sometimes spent the night there. He had quite a run for
someone with his medical issues.
I suppose there will be more details coming, where did this information come from?
[Edited on 8-30-2022 by AKgringo]advrider - 8-30-2022 at 03:51 PM
Very sad, always one of our stops headed South. He was a character for sure.. JZ - 8-30-2022 at 03:57 PM
Ughhhh
Vaya Con Dios, Coco!
David K - 8-30-2022 at 04:23 PM
(Photo from 5 months ago, March 30, 2022)vacaenbaja - 8-30-2022 at 04:26 PM
Always a smile
and a big greeting
Great sense of humor
One of our traveling gang was a California Superior Ct Judge
Somehow Coco found that out
So when our guy signed the book, a bit later as we were set to motor on Coco showed him the addition he made under the entry
It was the drawing of a gallows, hangman/s noose, the whole picture.
Great memories
And even if your cooler was jammed full of brewskies you always paid a buck and bought another one from Coco.
It just seemed like the right thing to do.StuckSucks - 8-30-2022 at 05:12 PM
willardguy - 8-30-2022 at 05:31 PM
we stopped visiting Coco probably 30 years ago....but still have the hat.
DEP Cocoadvrider - 8-30-2022 at 05:52 PM
I hope someone will preserve his books, the ones that weren't stolen! I would pay good money and donate them to the museum in SF! freediverbrian - 8-30-2022 at 06:28 PM
REP Coco. A legend of the old baja is gone. Bajazly - 8-30-2022 at 06:36 PM
DEP Coco my friend.honda tom - 8-30-2022 at 07:31 PM
RIP.... True nomadRFClark - 8-30-2022 at 08:24 PM
En tus manos, oh Señor,
Confiamos humildemente a nuestros hermanos y hermanas.
En esta vida los abrazaste con tu tierno amor;
Líbralos ahora de todo mal
Y les ofrezco un descanso eterno.
La antigua orden ha fallecido:
Darles la bienvenida al paraíso,
Donde no habrá dolor, ni llanto ni dolor,
Pero plenitud de paz y alegría
Con tu Hijo y el Espíritu Santo
Por siempre y para siempre.
R/. Amén
baja Steve - 8-30-2022 at 09:31 PM
I have loved that guy for over 20 years. Many Many great memories. David K - 8-31-2022 at 07:25 AM
One special visit was following the 2006 Baja 1000, we stopped to visit Coco.
Roy 'The Squarecircle' traveled with us (Son Josh, Elizabeth 'Baja Angel', and David K) to help Baja Pits communications at El Crucero. These photos
and captions from my web page for that trip:
It was good to see that Coco was doing well.
Coco shows my entry from January 2005 and the one from this day… ‘got baja?’
Josh, Coco, Elizabeth
Roy and David get into the photo thanks to some bikers at Coco’s Corner pjpvi - 8-31-2022 at 07:31 AM
RIP Coco. Always a pleasure to stop by and chat with him.
Jorge Enrique Corral Sandez “Coco” 2-25-1937 to 08-30-2022
David K - 8-31-2022 at 08:50 AM
We are saddened
John M - 8-31-2022 at 09:19 AM
Barbara and I are truly saddened to hear this. We've known Coco since 1975 or '76 when he was at the little campground on the south part of downtown
Ensenada. He was kind and generous to us then and remained so over the many years. He bailed us out of a jam one time when we came upon him at The Old
Mill at San Quintin. We recall Coco and "Tall" Charlie [anyone remember Charley & Roberta Lavelle?]working the parking lot gate at the Bahia Hotel
when that was SCORE race headquarters in Ensenada.
He was always so grateful and cheerful in spite of his daily challenges living in such a remote place. As Bajarunner mentioned, you always bought a
beverage from him whether you needed it or not. Bringing him raw tomatoes was pure joy - he'd immediately scarf down one or two just like he was
eating an apple. What good memories we have to have known him.
Legendary Coco - RIP
John & Barbara M
[Edited on 8-31-2022 by John M]
1975 Cielito Lindo, San Quintín (Mexico West)
David K - 8-31-2022 at 12:36 PM
[Edited on 8-31-2022 by David K]AKgringo - 8-31-2022 at 03:40 PM
I was surprised to see this made it to my MSN news feed! I have been visiting Coco since 2012, and rarely saw him with a shirt on.
Thank you. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I appreciate your comments.
John
No more fish, gracias
thebajarunner - 9-2-2022 at 05:08 PM
Heading north we always left some of our excess food with him,
No point in hauling it back home
He always was grateful,
but "No fish..... no mas, gracia"
I guess living on that route saw a lot of fishermen heading home with plenty to share.AKgringo - 9-2-2022 at 05:36 PM
I sometimes stopped and bought small amounts of fresh fruits and produce somewhere along the road when I was a half day or so from his corner. That,
and canned goods, like chicken chunks or other meats.
He also told me that he didn't like fish, but canned chicken was great. He said that while showing me a can of "Chicken of The Sea" tuna!basautter - 9-4-2022 at 04:44 AM
A sad day for sure.... I feel lucky to have visited Coco several times over the years. The legend will live on forever.Paco Facullo - 9-6-2022 at 08:55 AM
Very sad to see him go, but we ALL gonna go someday .
Bedside the sigh-in book , I’d like to know who he bequeathed his enormous panty collection to ???Fatboy - 9-6-2022 at 04:41 PM
I can Drive down many miles of coastline here in the states, and across miles and miles of desert in the west and it can be a beautiful drive but it
has now heart, no spirit, it is just nice driving seen through a window.
But Baja seemed different, because of the people.
Like Paco said...we ALL gonna go... but a place is more than just a place, it is also the people.
With each mile paved, with each road rerouted and with each person passing it loses a little bit of what made it special.
