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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaDanD
took this all the way to Cabo, one summer even to Cabo Pulmo and to Loreto three times |
Where did you sit? 
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BajaDanD
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Las Arenas Light house
Those kayaks are 3ft longer then the car I had to repair the roof from the damage caused by the rack. I think it was the road to Las Frailes that
caused the rack to shift. that car got 40 mpg without the kayaks on it, with the kayaks it depended on the wind direction. sort of like a sail. It
also made 10+ trips to San Quintin in 4 years. We just Traded it in for a Toyota Matrix.
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Geronimo
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Registered: 6-12-2005
Location: Salome Arizona/San Felipe BC Mex
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hey xplorbaja, recognize your rigs. I am the guy with the red XJ with yellow tubes that went to the dunes with you guys a couple of times. I used to
work for Kehoe in another life. My bumper was still bent when I sold it last year, LOL. Welcome to the board Randy.
Geronimo
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xplorbaja
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Thanks for the welcome. Great group of guys and info here!
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Geronimo
hey xplorbaja, recognize your rigs. |
X2. Lots of exposure in Off Road Adventures & Fourwheeler! 
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Roberto
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xplorbaja
Are you Randy? And if so, does this light bar look familiar to you?
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xplorbaja
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Thats me. Nice light bar!
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Roberto
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Yeah, it's been rock solid on there for three years - great light bar!
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Slowmad
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OK, I've slammed down in a variety of vehicles over the decades.
Sixties with my parents in a Renault Dauphine;
Seventies in a Westfalia;
Eighties in a '49 Plymouth Special Deluxe, a Dodge van, and a full range of Ford and Toyota trucks, then a two-door '87 Trooper;
Nineties in Four Runners and Tacomas;
'00s in a bone-stock 4X4 Xterra and a Dodge Dakota with camper.
Am now pulling my head out and deploying on a purpose-built Baja rig.
Having looked at everything from South African camp trailers to the estimable (and patently absurd) Earthroamer, I've pretty much settled on a lightly
used 4X4 diesel truck (Ford or Dodge) with a service body and a Sunlite pop-top camper. BFGs, Bilsteins, a HiLift, and onboard air are the primary
bolt-ons I have specced. My second choice is a similarly outfitted Tundra (gas-powered).
Thoughts and advice cordially (ah hell, desperately) requested.
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by SlowmadHaving looked at everything from South African camp trailers to the estimable (and patently absurd) Earthroamer
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In San Luis Gonzaga in November, our group of Mission Impossible vehicles (a Jeep, a Cherokee XJ, and a Ford Explorer), we passed a brand-new
Earthroamer that was stuck in a shallow patch of sand - just south of Alfonsinas next to a row of homes there near the beach and campground. I wasn't
at all impressed with that vehicles off-road prowess...
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TMW
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Location: Bakersfield, CA
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I think whatever makes you happy because in the long run you have to drive it. We all have our prefered vehicle based mostly on personal experience
and choices. I have two 4x4 trucks I drive to Baja. A 93 Toyota with 31x10.50 BFG tires for the narrow trails and roughest stuff and the other is a 04
GMC Z71 with LT285/75/16 BFG tires for the back roads and it carries more people and stuff. Both are stock with add a leafs in the rear and the Toy
has heavy duty torsion bars up front. They both have a frame attached front bumper guard with driving lights. Over the years I've used Bilstein and
Rancho shocks. I personally don't like diesel due to the noise and the fuel. I deal with diesel generators and the less I'm around diesel fuel the
better. Also I don't want to carry two different type fuel cans, 1 diesel for the truck and 1 gas for my motorcycle. But that's just my opinion.
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Pompano
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Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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"Grasshopper"
Although this is not my vehicle, I did drive it around Baja a bit. It's a 1972 Custom built Baja Dune Buggy and boat hauler...built by JW Black,
'Blackjack'. Saw lots of backcountry trails. Jut thought it would be of interest to Baja off-road fans.
[Edited on 2-17-2006 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Frank
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Location: San Diego
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Mood: Is it time to leave yet?
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Here is mine. It snowed in the San Diego mountains today.
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A-OK
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Location: San Diego
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Nice rig Frank.
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