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Doug/Vamonos
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Registered: 6-19-2006
Location: Bahia de los Angeles
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Had some good ones on that grade, but my best story was the small grade coming down towards LA Bay. Not the grade with the view but the one that leads
down to the desert stretch where the ranch is with the burros. This was when they were doing the major road work a few years ago before the power
lines. A flag man stopped traffic ahead of me, just down from the hills. I stopped in line, was sitting there wondering how long this might take, and
then noticed the flagman jumping up and down and waving his flag frantically. I think for a moment, and then look in my rear view mirror. I see a
freaking propane truck hauling ass down the hill behind me and his brakes smoking, trying to slow. I had no where to go because I was on the guys
bumper ahead of me and I had my trailer in tow. I was almost ready to jump out my door when the truck started to slow and he got control of it. That
one got my heart pumping. Now, I always leave space ahead of me when I'm stopped in a line of traffic.
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ecomujeres
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Registered: 9-10-2006
Location: Mulege, BCS & Oakland, CA
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A way back in the posts, someone asked the name of the road side markers. And they are markers, not graves.
In Spanish, one name for them is "descansos".
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ELINVESTIG8R
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Registered: 11-20-2007
Location: Southern California
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Just for the record if I am ever killed  on the highway in Baja California and a memorial marker is erected for me, I hereby give my expressed permission to use it as a
comedic backdrop for a joke or whatever reason they may need it. That way no one can be accused of desecrating my descanso.
Signed David Elinvesti8 M.
[Edited on 12-31-2009 by ELINVESTI8]
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Neal Johns
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Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: Lytle Creek, CA
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You kids think that paved grade is tough? My current wife (don't try that phrase at home, professionals only) is so old she says she drove it when the
road was dirt over the edge down in the bottom of the arroyo!
See you all at Mision Santa Maria? They have a new paved highway going there now. Trust me.
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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LOL... Even though I was mostly asleep... my dad drove his Wagoneer down the old road in 1966, at night! We didn't see San Ignacio at all... it was
dark... and the switchbacks going down to Santa Rosalia were such that he had to back up to make some of the turns! We slept on the beach near town
after checking the old downtown hotel... It was pretty bad in '66.
He was in a hurry to reach Mulege and start fishing! I don't think he had any idea that it was so tough a grade. The next time he went south that far
was in 1972 and was so impressed by San Ignacio! Pavement had reached north to Santa Rosalia and new road work towards San Ignacio was underway.
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