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Ken Bondy
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Those are fantastic David. Great memories!!
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Bajachief
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DK - You da Man
Thanks for bring back all the old memory photos. I saw all these places much later.
Thank you
Bajachief
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David K
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De nada guys... It is great to see places we all know and love but from an earlier time in our lives!
Ken, I tried to caprure Baja with a Kodak Instamatic... it's all I had at the time! Thanks for not laughing amigo!
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zforbes
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I'm really enjoying your postings on this and the other thread. Seeing your mom in her bathing suit makes me laugh...not at her, but at the getups we
all wore so proudly. Thanks for sharing, David. Zoe
\"You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.\"
Swedish proverb
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Crusoe
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Hose.....Your conscience got the best of you, great. But..... what a great shot David...... The old black V.W. would make a great add shot for the new
"All we need is drivers" logos for V.W. Your pop was one smart and tough cookie.Thanks David
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hose A
Nuevo Mazatlan |
 How did you
guess?
[Edited on 3-10-2007 by Roberto]
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Sallysouth
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What a great collection of memories David! Your Mom, like mine had a passion for fishing! Gosh, if only I could figure out how to take those old
pictures, some insta-matic some black and white and transfer them, then post them here..... hmmm..Many are damaged, faded.Time for me to go ask the
experts! 
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Bob H
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David, that was great! Thanks for sharing those old photos. Your parents seem like fantastic parents. You had a great childhood, indeed! And, the
memories you must have of the old days in Baja.... wow! 40+ years of changes.... unreal.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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David K
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yah... thanks Bob... I now weigh more than my dad, and he was a big guy! Too many tacos at El Yaqui, perhaps?
I am really fortunate to have parents who loved the outdoors, fishing, jeepin', backcountry Baja, and including me in their travels!
What is also special about them, is that they encouraged my 'hobby' of rock collecting, drawing maps, learing how to (four wheel) drive, writing
guidebooks... Yup, they were proud of me and I gave them no problems as a teenager!
Look, 40 years later, Baja fever is still raging in my blood... What a fantastic place that it continues to offer new things to explore and see.
As much 'Baja' is in me already, there is still much more Baja I have yet to experience!
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djh
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Enthusiasm
MUCH easier now to understand David's enthusiasm, helpfulness to fellow nomads, and general love of all things Baja ! !
You ARE lucky to have adventuring folks, DK ! !
My first trip across the border wasn't till 74, and I was out on my own !
Speaking of shaggy haired.... ! !
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
A day spent sailing isn\'t deducted from one\'s life.
Peace, Love, and Music
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Bob H
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And, to think you did all of that with NO GPS!
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Von
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Awesome pics David Thanks for sharing my mom has some from La Barca in the 60s too I ll try to post them up....Thanks again, so cool man......
READY SET.....................
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Mexitron
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Nice pics...thanks DK! My old photos are a Kodak Instamatic too...gotta love it!
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David K
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Thanks guys!
I added a couple more to the 30+/- years ago photo thread...
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Bajafun777
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David K, looking at those photos really brought back memories as to how San Felipe went from that small fishing village to the "give me your tourist
dollars" type of town. Now, even jthe early 80s remember when the Colorado River water was on both sides of the road going down and you could buy the
fresh water shrimp for making tacos??? I know you do and man were they great eating. Even Rosarito only had about a third of the population they do
now in the early 1970s and that doesn't seem so long ago typing this in. Later and thanks for sharing the photos=====bajafun777
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David K
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Yes, the flooding of the lower Laguna Salada basin happened after a failed scheme to channel Colorado River water into the upper Laguna Salada to
create a 'Mexican' Salton Sea... Around 1977 (?).
The Colorado really flowed the following year and the levee was breached flooding that entire area that Hwy 5. crosses. Campo Rio Hardy and Rio del
Mayor were flooded out...
The highway roadbed was so heavily undermined and melted/ warped, that the current wider causeway was constructed...
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capitolkat
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David-- thanks buddy-- It's really great of you to share your memories. I had some similar vintage photos of Los Cabos, Ensenada, San Quintin- but
alas a divorce has ways of hurting in places you didn't know you had-- "those old photos- I threw them out, --smirk inserted here" 
Life is too short to drink bad wine
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Vince
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Looks like those trips with your parents infected you with the Baja Bug like it did to me in the 40's and 50's. Vince
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David K
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Vince, or anyone else who has photos of Baja BEFORE Hwy. 1 was bulit/ paved between Colonet and Constitucion, it would be great to see!
If you haven't figured how to post photos on Nomad, I will help or email the images to me to post for you!
I like sharing the memories and relating the difference between the Baja of then to the Baja of now (or since Dec., 1973)...
Thanks!
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Offroad
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Fantastic photos and thanks for sharing!
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