jrbaja
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Trip out report
Hola everyone from Baja Sur. I have been up in the mountains building a bamboo home and camp area so have been away for a while. I am also learning
how to live as a Mexican as my helper is a Yaqui Indian. To him it is a blessing when I run out of my modern conveniences (gas, ice, etc.) so he can
show me how to really live. It is a kick and the food is wonderful.
There are so many wild animals in the area that the dogs are on constant guard protecting their food and property. We woke up one morning to see
the dogs chasing off an eagle that was chomping on their cow leg. Also ran into Cochi Havilin, (Havalinas) Zorras, (Foxes), Zorrilos, (skunks),
Iguanas which Flaco has made a bow and arrow to get as he considers these a delicacy.
We are building a pond with waterfall and at this time, we use a pond about 4 miles away for our bathing and cooling off during the day. Last week
it was near 100 degrees almost every day. It is bearable for working thanks to the mountain air and pond to cool off in.
This is J.R.s Baja and it is very remote and hard to get to because of the roads. It is awesome here and many of you will be invited. Also, many of
you probably won't but you probably wouldn't enjoy it anyway. Very few if any conveniences and you need to have everything with you.
On the other hand, my power inverter seems to like it there and has been cooperating. I use my power tools during the day for construction and we
can watch a movie at night. Roughing it!!!
Hope most of you are all doing well and planning your next trip south. Adios J.R.
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Bob H
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JR, great trip report. You have been "out there" for a while. Did you get your van repaired? What town are you near? Still awaiting the Steinway
story.
My wife and I are headed to Baja Sur on April 10th for two weeks. Maybe we will see you along the way.
Bob H
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Natalie Ann
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Hola J.R., glad to hear all's going well in your piece of heaven. I'm with you in spirit - although with perhaps a bit less of the hard work, haha.
Prayers are with you and your heart's desire.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Debra
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Sounds great fun, especially the part about your Native helper teaching you. You are a lucky, lucky man!
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Skeet/Loreto
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So you are going to the Mountains to learn "What Life is all about"!!!
Does this mean that I will miss you at the May 1st Book signing?
My prayers are with you as you go through another "Adventure", the Passion of Life.
I hereby Predict that you will come back with a "softer" attitude toward your fellow man.
God Bless you J.R, May the Lord look over you in your Quest!!
Skeet/Loreto
"In God I Trust"
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academicanarchist
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Pietro Gambini Benevolent Association
Living without the ameneties that most Americans are accustomed to is an interesting experience, and you will learn a great deal from the Yaqui, a
people with a long history of resisting the outside. When I lived in Bolivia in the 1980s, I went in the countryside a lot, and slept in little
villages with no running water or toilets as we know them (just holes in the ground, or the walls of buildings). I spent a lot of time in an area
called Anzaldo, and met an Italian doctor named Pietro Gambini who drove the very poor roads in the area like a maniac. He had created the Pietro
Gambini Benevolent Association, and was doing good for the people in the region with his clinic. However, he was also roughing it as well. It is an
interesting and uplifting experience to spend time in those conditions. Good luck, and continue to protect those caves.
[Edited on 3-23-2004 by academicanarchist]
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