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woody with a view
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Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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why we go? now you know.
some icing on the cake. world record spotfin....
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SiReNiTa
Special Correspondent
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Mood: Savoring life while saving the world!
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wow...it's nice to see that people here really love our little paradise that ppl call baja...i have heard so much bad stuff up here in san diego that
it sounds nothing like the place i live in...it seems to me that they are describing some very very far away planet...i know there are dangers
but...think about it there are the exact same kind of dangers in everyones back yard...everywhere in the worl there are bad people doing bad
things...and you don't know how big of a relief it is to see people speaking well of the places you love...it makes me proud and happy to see that
many people really do love baja and everything that comes in that huge package....thank's to everyone for loveng baja...it makes us or me at least but
i speak for many mexicans who live in baja and love it as i do very very happy to share and to introduce our world to others...you have to admit it's
not very nice when you hear people talking bad bad stuff about something you love...any way i'm babbeling so blah lol
xoxoxox SiReNiTa
Live life as well as you can,
don\'t regret the things that once made you smile,
learn from your mistakes,
and thank God for every second he gives you upon this earth.
Visit me at
Http://BajaScents.Scentsy.com.mx
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movinguy
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"are you crazy?" 
Been asking myself that when I'm driving home from my girlfriend's along the Via Rapida at 2 in the morning . . .
I've always loved Baja, and now I even love Tijuana - I'm either fearless or stupid and don't particularly care to know which one. 
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Capt. George
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Deborah and I have not met a kinder, gentler people then those we live with in Abreojos. And that same spirit seems to exist along the entire coast
north of us to Ascuncion...Viva Baja.
We can hardly wait to cross the border (at Tijuana) and head on home to Punta Abreojos
el Vikingo de Punta Abreojos
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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BajaBlanca
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el Vikingo - there are some folks here who are looking for Debbie - is that your wife ??? It is soemone named Clint from El Boleo in santa rosalia
and the numbe he has is 156- 2022 but I just called it and was told
NO HAY DEBBIE AQUI
pls call us at 156-0056 today, if possible !!
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woody with a view
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Blanca
you just responded to a 3 year old thread! try U2U instead.
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Bajafun777
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Location: Rosarito & California
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Gave up on trying to convince people it is safe in Baja, however still invite them down to visit when I stay down in Las Gaviotas for 4 months. Just
do not want to do summers in Imperial Valley anymore nor do I have to.
Explore and travel up and down Baja, have driven all the way to Cabo back to La Paz taken Baja Ferry over to mainland and driven all the way to Puerto
Vallarte and then back to Nogales then home. The "bad dudes" have not gotten me yet but I also travel smart. I do not drive on long trips at night,
do not run around a town until I know about it nor where to go or not go, have good Mexico auto insurance and keep common sense about me by not doing
something that I know is just risky. If you get a "gut feeling" about something then go with it and get the hell out of there.
The people we have met, friends we have made and adventures we have had more than make our next trip down South just too long before it happens again.
Never get tired of waking up to the Ocean and those interesting Baja happenings we all experience while in Baja. Have met so many people that are
nomads or friends of nomads. I get people to check out bajanomads for the real interesting things they can do which many share on this site.
Will have my Jeep running again thanks to Ken Cooke steering me to another site that had the right direction for a place that could do the entire
bigger engine change out that my Wrangler needed. Thanks again Ken and I get it back from MIT in El Cajon in two more weeks, YEA!! So, just enjoy
Baja and don't worry about defending it with the nuts doing these bad crazy things off and on. Take Care & Travel Safe---- "No Hurry, No Worry,
Just FUN" bajafun777
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
this seems to be the first things out of the mouths of most everyone i know when i say Bia and i are heading south. there are many reasons to run the
gauntlet of life and doing it south of the border just makes it that much more special. i mean, the getting there is almost as much fun as the being
there, right? what gets you out of the house and heading south? what's your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? why risk it all? what could be so
alluring in such a lawless, forbidding, and desolate place (outside the cities and towns, anyways) such as baja?
why we go..........
[Edited on 7-12-2008 by woody in ob] |
i suppose it's all good and fine, until the day you become a victim of crime. until then, don't worry, be happy!
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Bajafun777
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Like crime won't happen to you in the States?? Come on, if it is your day for a bad crime day, then it is your day, so if it happens in States or
Mexico it happens, right? Think the people killed in work places, malls, colleges or home invasions in the States really thought about a lot of people
being killed or harmed all at once in the States by gunmen? If you spend your whole life worrying about the bad things then you miss so many of the
good things.
I do not believe many of us are fools in our travels and some have made a set plan of action if the bad comes to them when driving of what they are
willing to do or not do. I guess these choices would not be the same in States as you can carry your weapons here with you, however in Mexico it is a
no go on the weapons. So, when driving I guess your vehicle becomes your weapon if you need to react to bad crooks trying to do you harm. These are
choices hopefully that most of us will not have to make but maybe again we will some day! Now, my wife and I always say a prayer when in Mexico and
States each morning at breakfast to keep ourselves, relatives or friends safe. I guess we let the God take the wheel, HMM? Take Care & Travel
Safe--- "No Hurry, No Worry, Just FUN" bajafun777
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Curt63
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Si, poco loco
Stay covered bro..
and tight lines
Good on ya!
No worries
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woody with a view
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i suppose it's all good and fine, until the day you become a victim of crime. until then, don't worry, be happy! |
Baaaaaaa, Baaaa, Baaaaaaa.....
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chippy
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But wait there´s no DK leg to pee on??????This is an old thread.
[Edited on 10-9-2011 by chippy]
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vgabndo
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We have to drive the length of Alta CA to get to the frontera. We lock our doors for the first time since the last trip, and go from a rural town with
one home invasion EVER, grinding through the central valley arriving at Bakersdiego. Just like Tijuana/Ensenada, there isn't really much of any way
around it but in SoCal no one is going to stop to help you if you have a problem.
The nervous stomach starts for me at the Grapevine.
It is a brutally boring drive in the states, I look forward to getting past the first reten, then I relax a lil bit.
Maybe a dozen families from my community spend regular time in Baja. We have had friends visit us in Mexico, and become hooked.
I agree that the stresses of the drive SOB are part of the allure. I tell people that it is adventure travel with a white line. Be smart, be prepared,
and stay a little scared in the appropriate environments. (incidentally I finally counted the wheels on a video we took of a truck we passed in
January; two linked truck tractors and total of 72 wheels! It did have good pilot cars.)
We drove to Belize for our honeymoon in '92. We'd have loved to have made a home there, but cheese and rice that's a long 8200 mile RT. We decided on
Baja and it was no mistake.
Normal people worry me. I find a lot of Baja visitors are not real normal. I like that.
En mi corazon soy un parte Mexicano. I am at home in Mexico.
Becoming conversant in a second language has been a pure joy. Starting at age 50. My thanks to every Mexican who suffered with me through those years
of true idiomatic ugliness. It is a little better now. And...the best protection against a lot of common errors and problems suffered by folks in Baja
who SHOULD be fearful if they speak no Spanish.
I expect if I play my cards right there'll be plenty to satisfy me until I just can't get there, or we have our own roof there again.
Serenita, you aren't the only one who rambles.....
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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BajaBlanca
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I know it was an old thread but guess what ???? I had to get a hold of george somehow and I wasn't even sure that el vikingo was in fact George or
that Debs was his wife LOL I had never met any of them !! so i did a search and this old old thread was what I found first ...
no sooner had i sent this note and el Vikingo and Debs and Brenda who owns las casitas hotel in santa rosalia walked up the steps of our home !!! It
was quite bizarre ....
turns out we had the wrong phone number ....in the end we all had a good time on the front porch. finally I got to meet our punta abreojos
neighbors!!
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BornFisher
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Woody--those are some fine, fine fish right there! Haven`t eaten a Spotfin in a few decades, but I`ll trade you my secret surf spot for you secret
fishing spot!
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woody with a view
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take it to U2U. you go first!
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[Edited on 10-9-2011 by woody with a view]
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajafun777
Will have my Jeep running again thanks to Ken Cooke steering me to another site that had the right direction for a place that could do the entire
bigger engine change out that my Wrangler needed. Thanks again Ken and I get it back from MIT in El Cajon in two more weeks, YEA!! So, just enjoy
Baja and don't worry about defending it with the nuts doing these bad crazy things off and on. Take Care & Travel Safe---- "No Hurry, No Worry,
Just FUN" bajafun777 |
Gary - It's great to hear that I was able to help you with the information on the JustRuns listserve. Here's to cool summers!
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