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[*] posted on 12-20-2014 at 11:12 PM


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I was wondering when you start dredging up old posts


Not "old posts"---------and not David's either--------these are the photos that Emerson posted originally, and that got lost.

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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 01:06 AM


Great report.I fell on the trail from Gonzaga. Required surgery later on. Gonna try it again next year.
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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 07:35 AM


Having missed the original thread on this posting...
Thanks DK for posting the new photo designation :)
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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 10:46 AM


Thanks Barry, Marc and paranewbi for the positive replies. Nice when one actually reads the post and doesn't just react because of who posted it.

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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 12:36 PM


My claim to fame is (I think) the only person to take a camper in to the Mission several times.

Unfortunately, this claim is negated by by last trip when going through the "pond" the truck/camper leaned over and hit a palm tree with the camper top, cracking the differential gear teeth so they blew up after reaching the Mission. This resulted in being towed up all the way by a Motorhome! Oh the shame, the shame. Yep, it was Art's Class C Motorhome.

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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 03:11 PM


Neal---------for some unknown reason the pics did not come thru to my computer?!?!?!?!?

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[*] posted on 12-21-2014 at 09:42 PM


As noted inn other threads, the new Nomad softwear needs fixing to allow photos to be attached from your PC. In the meantime, as always, using a remote photo site or links from other web sites works fine. Just set the max size at 800 pixals.

How to use one such site with the easy steps to post photos here is right here, in the first post: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=65085

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[*] posted on 12-24-2014 at 08:03 AM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
As noted inn other threads, the new Nomad softwear needs fixing to allow photos to be attached from your PC. In the meantime, as always, using a remote photo site or links from other web sites works fine. Just set the max size at 800 pixals.

How to use one such site with the easy steps to post photos here is right here, in the first post: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=65085

If you don't want to do it, then send the photo to me and I am happy to post for you. info AT vivabaja.com to email it.


I would really like to see those photos.
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[*] posted on 12-24-2014 at 09:24 AM


Quote: Originally posted by Marc  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
As noted inn other threads, the new Nomad softwear needs fixing to allow photos to be attached from your PC. In the meantime, as always, using a remote photo site or links from other web sites works fine. Just set the max size at 800 pixals.

How to use one such site with the easy steps to post photos here is right here, in the first post: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=65085

If you don't want to do it, then send the photo to me and I am happy to post for you. info AT vivabaja.com to email it.


I would really like to see those photos.


I sent Neal a u2u offering to post them here. In the meantime, at least two of them are from our 2010 expedition to Mission Santa Maria, and you can enjoy the photos at this web site: http://vivabaja.com/msm2010/ and more on the Nomad Trip Reports from May/June 2010.




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[*] posted on 12-24-2014 at 10:26 AM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by Marc  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
As noted inn other threads, the new Nomad softwear needs fixing to allow photos to be attached from your PC. In the meantime, as always, using a remote photo site or links from other web sites works fine. Just set the max size at 800 pixals.

How to use one such site with the easy steps to post photos here is right here, in the first post: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=65085

If you don't want to do it, then send the photo to me and I am happy to post for you. info AT vivabaja.com to email it.


I would really like to see those photos.


I sent Neal a u2u offering to post them here. In the meantime, at least two of them are from our 2010 expedition to Mission Santa Maria, and you can enjoy the photos at this web site: http://vivabaja.com/msm2010/ and more on the Nomad Trip Reports from May/June 2010.


Indeed they were from my camera... Neal sent these this morning (he sent two of Art's van on the Widowmaker and one of Neal's camper in the bog:







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[*] posted on 12-25-2014 at 08:41 AM


Here is the third photo Neal wanted to show, the damage to his camper from a Santa Maria walking palm tree:





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[*] posted on 12-25-2014 at 08:45 AM


Those Palm trees can really get out of line!
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[*] posted on 12-25-2014 at 08:52 AM


'CG' in his Dakota, being chased by the palms!



HB Murphy in his Tacoma escaping the wrath of the palms!



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I think one palm grabbed Art's wonder van!??







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[*] posted on 12-25-2014 at 08:56 AM


Looks like a menacing group of palms! Looks like somebody even tried to burn their way thru!
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[*] posted on 12-26-2014 at 01:16 PM


A very special place. I wonder if the mission would have been destroyed by now, if not so hard to reach.
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[*] posted on 12-26-2014 at 05:55 PM


Bad roads bring good people, and no roads may bring the best people?

There is damage (holes in the walls and in the floor) that date back before 1970, and much earlier... one is described by Arthur North who camped at Santa María for a few days in 1906, in his 'Camp and Camino in Lower California' c1910.

For sure the lack of 2WD access the past 40 years reduced the number of treasure seekers, along with time and education that the padres were working in poverty and had no gold and pearls to hide.

Another reason for Santa María to look better is the dry climate, just 10 miles west of Gonzaga Bay.

Here is a similar adobe church ruin, located east of Vizcaino (north of San Ignacio), that for lack of roads and dry climate, also looks little changed over the past 100 or so years, the visita of San Pablo (typically mis-named Mission Dolores del Norte):

1926 (thanks Mr. Davis): click to see: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/davis/collection/op-14961-159

1949 (thanks Marquis McDonald):


1998 (thanks Nomad Kevin):


2010 (thanks Nomad Phil):






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