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loretta
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Mood: I wanna head South ........ Baja whine
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
Very ineresting custom. Loretta the links were facinating.
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Thanks Cabo Ron
With all respect to the spirits represented........... don't want to make light of anyone's tragedy. Here is a smile for you:
I remember one long Montana drive, those of you who have done that know how much vast open space that means, I came across one cross after another
for miles upon miles. Then after hundred miles of single ones (the whole time pondering the demise of each individual) I saw , all of a sudden, a
concentrated placement of 30 or more crosses........... and having a morbid sense of humor............ well, I chuckled and figured .............Must
have been a bus full  When driving miles and miles with only antelope
sightings and crosses....... the endorphins from laughter keeps one awake.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by loretta
I came across one cross after another for miles upon miles. Then after hundred miles of single ones (the whole time pondering the demise of each
individual) I saw , all of a sudden, a concentrated placement of 30 or more crosses........... |
Sounds as though you came across a Christo art installation. Remember when he planted giant umbrellas across the hills in California and Japan?
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rhintransit
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there's a great little shrine on Fig Tree Beach which is well tended and has been there for as long as the local gringos (El Juncalito) can remember.
it would have been quite the airborne flight from Hwy One, if it marks an accident but the drop off is steep there, so it is possible. one thing
about it intrigues me, and I know there must be a good story there...at the base (of a cave type niche filled with plastic flowers, rosaries, beads,
etc)...is a partially opened suitcase with billowing white tulle flowing out. a dress, impossible to say if for a wedding or a quinciano. anyone
know the story? a group of women walked from the little chapel in El J out to the area last Easter time, could it be religious rather than highway
death related?
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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loretta
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by loretta
I came across one cross after another for miles upon miles. Then after hundred miles of single ones (the whole time pondering the demise of each
individual) I saw , all of a sudden, a concentrated placement of 30 or more crosses........... |
Sounds as though you came across a Christo art installation. Remember when he planted giant umbrellas across the hills in California and Japan?
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Yep! early 90's........... broke the monotony of the drive along the grapevine.......... also kind of cool as it was one of those parallel universe
deals.....
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Does anybody know Hector's story? It's certainly one of the most creative and ambitious of all the Baja memorials:
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Hector was a truck driver. Hector bought the farm. Hector was loved.
That's all I got but I'm sure there is more......... |
I got that too. I was just wondering if anybody knew "...the rest of the story..." Last time I saw Hector's shrine there was a bullet hole through
the front window of the truck model, driver's side. So maybe everyone didn't love Hector 
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