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[*] posted on 4-3-2008 at 06:34 PM


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Thanks Bajamigo. I've seen the sign for La Bocana and with LB GPS maps I could get there, just needed some help to get to the house once I reached the coast.


The book is such a good read. Everyone visiting Baja Nomad surely would find the book a joy to read.

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I read the book after we bought our lot last year, and had to laugh many times over incidents in the book that weren't that different than what we went through. I would have loved to have met Senior Gomez!

Ken


Amen! I always felt that buying or building a house in Mexico involved a tremendous leap of faith, no matter what the legal status of the deal was. After reading the book, I developed more deeply that necessary what-the-hell attitude that is so essential to living and enjoying life in Baja.
After renting in variuos places around Punta Banda for five years, we found our dream home, which happens to be on leased land. The landowner professes to love the land and has no intentions of selling it (leap of faith). We're happy but frankly do hope he outlasts us!

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[*] posted on 4-3-2008 at 06:40 PM


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Thanks Bajamigo. I've seen the sign for La Bocana and with LB GPS maps I could get there, just needed some help to get to the house once I reached the coast.


The book is such a good read. Everyone visiting Baja Nomad surely would find the book a joy to read.

PS
I read the book after we bought our lot last year, and had to laugh many times over incidents in the book that weren't that different than what we went through. I would have loved to have met Senior Gomez!

Ken


Amen! I always felt that buying or building a house in Mexico involved a tremendous leap of faith, no matter what the legal status of the deal was. After reading the book, I developed more deeply that necessary what-the-hell attitude that is so essential to living and enjoying life in Baja.


As we were wiring off money to people we met only once, depositing funds in stranger's account, etc., the idea of leap of faith flashed in my mind often. I always smiled and thought about the book.

I had the book many years ago and loved it. With building in Baja, I wanted it again and found it in a used book store in San Diego. The hard cover cost more than the original hard cover---man said it is a collector's item now. Glad we have it.

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[*] posted on 4-4-2008 at 02:20 PM


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A shot of the finished roof, 6 guys, 2 days. I'm holding a Skilsaw and a Nail gun.

Not bad working conditions!


BW -- Pepe Gomez used to call that house K-Mart. Not sure exactly why, though, but he thought it was funny. He also nicknamed the firepit in front of my trailer "El Cyclon" (sp?), because of the way the smoke would swirl out of it like a tornado and get in your eyes no matter where you sat. Miss that guy. R.I.P.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2008 at 02:31 PM


A recent shot of the lagoon.

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