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lol.gif posted on 10-29-2005 at 09:57 PM
Incident with Locals


I'm back from my solo 12 day trip, alive. Made it down as far as Loreto, crossing from the Pacific to the Gulf several times along the way. No carnage, though the washboard roads did a number on the truck. Issues with the tailgate, drivers door, and CD. Also learned the spindle bushings are shot ... I don't think they are supposed to rattle that much. Truck ran great. Didn't get stuck. About the worst thing is I ran out of CO2 after dropping the tires to 10psi to get off a sandy beach at Scorpion Bay.

Did have one local "incident." I was camped above Comondu. There were a series of ranchos along the road, but most looked abandoned. The spot I camped had been used before and made a nice almost-in-dark camp.

At 2:30am I need to get up. Dinner, apparently, did not agree with me. After several trips out of the tent, I run out of paper and need to retrive more from the truck. Well I guess one of those abandoned ranchos was not so abandoned. As I'm squating in the rocks I hear foot steps, then see a flashlight. Some guy is walking up the road. Seems the noise I made getting into the truck concerned him. I should have just stayed put and waved with my drawers around my
calves, but I ducked into the tent instead. Next time I won't be quite so chicken. He probably could have used another dumb gringo story.

[Edited on 11-15-2005 by Pappy Jon]
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[*] posted on 11-15-2005 at 08:21 AM


Same thing happened to me but it was a troop of Girlscouts coming around the corner in Lone Pine, and it was daytime!
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[*] posted on 11-15-2005 at 08:43 AM
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Ahhhhhh, camped in the boonies stories----we all have them, I am sure. I am in the habit of taking a sun-shower after dark when in Baja----I suspend the sun-shower from the side of my Callen Camper------TWICE I have been caught in peoples headlights when I did not think there was anybody around for miles and miles----now I know how a rabbit running across the highway at night feels. Oh, well---that is just Baja. Great story-----. (-:
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