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Bubba
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CasaManzana
......and I've always toyed with the idea of making a big Coffee Table Book on Mexican banos-
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There's that Mexican ingenuity again!
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woody with a view
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exemplary specimen swimming in the bowl!
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woody with a view
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Los Pinos has pretty good pots, as do the first one on the left entering GN.
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tripledigitken
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Why?
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Leo
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Bubba, about that ingenuity, yes they can find solutions to a lot of things but when i am at a mexican bathroom at a gas station or campground, the
left tap (hot water) never works. Still it's a funny picture.
The grass is always greener....
and so, there is always a better spot in Baja
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Bajahowodd
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Really?
| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
well, we've never found one pemex that we were comfortable in..."here, come on in, sit yerself down and relax with our atmosphere".......no...ain't
happenin'....one of the worse was antonios in el rosario, another was in jesus maria up on the flats before guerrero negro...but the tamales made up
for it....we usually pull off to the side of the road and experience our bliss without interference......bliss???...whaa? |
As was mentioned further down the thread from my last post, the Los Pinos Pemex, at the Souht end of the San Quintin Valley has not only a great
market, but their restrooms have electronic flush and faucets. Never found them to be lacking in paper products, either.
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Bajahowodd
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On a similar note, since it was mentioned earlier in the thread, ( the hole in the floor), I just wondered if y'all realized that over half of the
world uses what is called a squat toilet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet
From Albania, Bulgaria, and through Turkey, and South and East, this is what you will encounter everywhere with the exception of world class hotels.
Whether you are in Ukraine, India, or wherever, this is it. The exception is major tourist facilities. For instance, at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul,
every other stall is a regular toilet, versus the squat ones.
We were recently in Odessa, Ukraine, and visiting a historic cathedral. They had just completed building new restroom facilities. We walked in. Tile
floors, granite countertops, electronic sensors for the faucets and towels, but the squat toilets were there in the stalls.
I asked a friend who grew up in Syria where he read magazines and newspapers. He told me, "on the toilet." Seems they developed the ability to squat
for long periods of time. Go figure.
[Edited on 7-8-2013 by Bajahowodd]
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woody with a view
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heathens....
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
| Quote: | Originally posted by Marc
Not a Pemex in Baja, but any station in the US operated by Pakistanis or Indians is a sure bet to be filthy. There was one in Oceanside that even
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That goes for their motels also. Yuck!!!! |
I know a many pakistanis and indians that are better people than bigots that would post this,...
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
| Quote: | Originally posted by Marc
Not a Pemex in Baja, but any station in the US operated by Pakistanis or Indians is a sure bet to be filthy. There was one in Oceanside that even
charged 25c. |
That goes for their motels also. Yuck!!!! |
I know a many pakistanis and indians that are better people than bigots that would post this,... |
Not bad people...just not hygienic.
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Hook
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I snapped a pic of our intrepid bano crew, as I was leaving a Pemex station in San Vicente. Even their camera looked like some kind of "black box"
recorder. Or, in this case, an orange box.
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