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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 06:16 AM


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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 06:29 AM


Quote: Originally posted by rts551  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
? What is the hub-bub Ralph is alluding to?

I reported the HISTORY of this highway... and the HISTORY is 6-7 miles per year AVERAGE since this project began at Puertecitos in 2007.

I also said UNLESS the rate of progress changes, it will be done in about 3 years (I said that a year ago).

Nothing I said is incorrect or needs to be altered. The rate of construction has seemed to step up... but will it be done in 9 months or 1 year and 9 months...? That would be a PREDICTION, much like the climate and sea level alarmists like to use! So far their predictions are WRONG. How the highway advances is yet to be seen.

There are still 50 miles of unstarted new highway to build between San Felipe and Puertecitos for the project to be completed. The current roadbed north of Puertecitos was built in 1982 and paved the first time about 10 yeas after... so thin it was mostly gone by 1999. Repaved in the mid 2000s... but still not a high speed road like the rest of Mexico 5.


David, You did not have to bring in the sea level as a distracter did you? and then if that is not enough , you now are saying it has to include the new road between San Felipe and Puertecitos. Another herring. I think everyone knows what we have been talking about.

You see Hook, Never wrong. no hub bub.

Why couldn't David just say...Wow, I was wrong. Glad they threw the resources at it.


[Edited on 4-1-2016 by rts551]


Have you ever noticed that many of the threads on nomad evolve to become about DK? I think if you do a search you will find that of all the posts in the past year, 25% of the posts include reference to dk and That palm tree.

Nomads are sick and tired of hearing about dk's damn palm tree!



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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 06:34 AM


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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 07:25 AM


I think the goat got it. I posted an article to provide a news worthy item about Mex 5. No mention of DK. only deniers that the road would be finished...of which there are many. There were many. many excellent comments until Davis interjected with his I, I, I, comments. I guess he just could not stand that his name was not mentioned. Then she starts with the Palm Trees.. then the hate stuff ( I guess he has a real issue here). Then the constantly mentioned...What a self-centered _____ (you fill in the blank). No one mentioned him. Take a look. I guess DK or his coop are the only ones allowed to post a news item here. You got it right Chuckie...:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 07:00 PM


Blame DT for bring you up. I don't care. Quit being self centered. No one else mentioned you. Thanks for ruining an informative thread.
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 07:43 PM


Pretty much think you all ruined it. The usual suspects at work
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:01 PM


Good observation bajaguy, I'm happy to be available to point out the obvious in these posts. I found goat's edit particularly amusing, he also pointed out the obvious then deleted it....Freudian slip maybe?:biggrin:



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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:25 PM


These people could take a cream puff and turn it into a feces sandwich


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Good observation bajaguy, I'm happy to be available to point out the obvious in these posts. I found goat's edit particularly amusing, he also pointed out the obvious then deleted it....Freudian slip maybe?:biggrin:
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:26 PM


It was fine Bajaguy. look at it from the top...lots of good comments from all perspectives....until DT commented and then the Palm trees had to come out. DT could have had something constructive to say...but no...just destructive. David could have added his perspective...but nooo palm trees......Some people just can't stand it unless they are the center of attention. The we have the rest of the coop start to rally. Usual COOP subjects.
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:36 PM


Let me ask you this, COOP, is there any reason David and David had to say anything at all since they added nothing to the subject of the thread. After all they are "only here to help".

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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:37 PM


Hahahaha, oh my lord my sides hurt. I STARTED IT by bringing up the 'elephant in the room' that wasn't saying anything....... and then comes the GOP debates about "wu-ull, I didn't start it, HE did...." ...and, " wull, I wuz just 'counter-punching, so NEENER - NEENER".... OH, what a carnival. And as usual, it's all about DK, our mis-guided martyr, our bastion of perfection, our own Hero Of The Boards.

OK, I do now HUMBLY apologize for the fact I haven't been able to fish for the last couple of seasons, so yes, I cast out a leeeeeetle bait (I haven't cut bait and fished for over 5 years; strictly iron) and threw it into the pond. I didn't know suckers were salt-water species. One leeeeetle tiny teensy weeeeensy bit of bait........ man, what a haul.

HAW HAW. Nomania rules. FISH ON! :bounce:

Back to the highway; will be completed very soon. Baja will change because of it. The funniest part is, the Puertecitos stretch will turn to utter dog-doo-doo in a year or two most; will they patch that? What will the semi's do to the gully-wumps? I remember that stretch being worse than the rest of the road all the way to Chapala because of the poor asphalt, dips, dunks, holes, detours...... ah, Baja. The fun never ends.




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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:38 PM


Quote: Originally posted by rts551  
Thanks for ruining an informative thread.


I don't think the thread was ever particularly informative. It's a road being worked on and an end date is near. Anyone can figure that out, even without aid of a picture of a palm tree.
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 08:56 PM


Admirable of you to take some ownership Buddha, I appreciate that. Hook came to the "elephant's" defense and rts jumped in to explain why he was wrong about the "elephant" .....but of course he wasn't referring to DK....ok, glad we cleared that up.



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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 09:18 PM


:lol: you fothermuckers! I always fall prey to these april fools pranks;) you got me again!
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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 09:20 PM


Quote: Originally posted by rts551  
Let me ask you this, COOP, is there any reason David and David had to say anything at all since they added nothing to the subject of the thread. After all they are "only here to help".

[Edited on 4-2-2016 by rts551]



If you are referring to me you obviously have me confused with someone who is "only here to help" .....I've never claimed or necessarily demonstrated such a thing...

I have driven that road several times in the past year, they are moving right along but have a lot to do to finish the job. There are more workers and machinery working there now than there has ever been on this project as far as I can tell. They have a lot of engineering challenges on this last section as they seem to be carving their way straight through some significant hills. The last time through I saw them preparing for an impressively large dynamite blast of solid rock, they probably did it at night because the road would have had to be shut down for at least a few hours. The road may be done this year....or maybe not, this is Mexico after all.

There, I offered something informative to the topic of conversation from a "first hand" observation, not from a link to someone else's story. It's more of the same stuff told over and over again, same spit, different day.

There is a rock in the bay in front of Rancho Buena Vista. It is visible at low tide but at high tide it is covered by water. There is a flag planted on the rock so that boats know where it is at high tide. According to Tony they have marked it with a flag for 50 years or so, that's as far back as he can remember. I asked him if it looks the same today as it did 50 years ago, he said it does.....I'll see if I can get a picture of it....




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[*] posted on 4-1-2016 at 09:23 PM


Quote: Originally posted by willardguy  
:lol: you fothermuckers! I always fall prey to these april fools pranks;) you got me again!


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:.....GOT YOU!!?........




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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 08:03 AM


I only told the story of the rock with the flag on it because I thought some folks might be entertained by the thought, you don't see a rock with a flag on it every day or a flag seemingly floating on the surface out in the middle of the bay. I hadn't considered that someone might think it had something to do with climate change which, by the way, I believe is happening. It was the thought of the road workers drilling all those holes in the rock to set their blasting compound that got me thinking of the challenging project it must have been to drill the hole in the rock for the flag out in the middle of the bay. I wasn't trying to hijack the thread but now that I re-read it I can see where one might read something else into what I wrote.

If you want to talk about a topic other than the road project you should start a new thread....




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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 08:16 AM


The road construction progress has several threads here on Nomad, dating back to 2008. As someone who actually documents the progress year by year, I find it amusing when, out of the blue, I am suddenly "wrong" with my 9 years of observations documenting the end of pavement advances. Those figures show the rate as I have stated. That the rate of change may happen was never questioned by me. I said it would be done sooner IF the rate changed. So far, the rate is still unchanged.

The highway has been paved about 60 miles from Puertecitos over the past 9 years (Spring 2007 to Spring 2016). 60/9 = 6.7 miles per year.

Approx. 20 miles, using the bypass that cuts 3 miles of the distance, to go. 20/6.7 = 3 years... IF THE RATE DOESN'T CHANGE.




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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 03:14 PM


*makes 'elephant-trumpeting' noise*



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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 03:43 PM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
The road construction progress has several threads here on Nomad, dating back to 2008. As someone who actually documents the progress year by year, I find it amusing when, out of the blue, I am suddenly "wrong" with my 9 years of observations documenting the end of pavement advances. Those figures show the rate as I have stated. That the rate of change may happen was never questioned by me. I said it would be done sooner IF the rate changed. So far, the rate is still unchanged.


why don't you post your raw data so we can see your data on road construction and derivation of construction rates?



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