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bancoduo
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Location: el carcel publico mazatlan sin.
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How long have you been visiting and/or living in Mexico?
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tripledigitken
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Wait till about 6pm and the old timers will quit voting!
Ken
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Phil S
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Mood: After 34 years. Still in love w/ my wife
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Ken. I think your so right!!!!!! You gave me my "jump start" this morning.
Thank you. Phil S
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Bajajorge
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Visiting, 20yrs. Part time resident (5mos per yr) 7yrs.
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bajagrouper
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Location: Rincon de Guayabitos, Nayarit, Mexico
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I must of caught the Baja Bug when my parents drove down to Ensenada when I was a 1 year old baby in 1948...I drove to Loreto in 1971 and now live on
the mainland for 6 months a year in the state of Nayarit...suerte
I hear the whales song
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rpleger
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Location: H. Mulegé, BCS
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12 years in Mulegé...
I came and liked what I saw and moved in....
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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Bajaboy
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About 40 years now...and before me my dad and grandfather.....
Zac
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baitcast
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Location: kingman AZ.
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Gonzaga Bay 1964 with my family,been a while
Rob
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Cypress
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Location: on the bayou
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3 years. Might return, might not.It's a very special place.
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Bronco
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1964-5 college renagade- 1st visit on BSA
Had my first trailer at La Jolla Camp with the most respected Senor
Pavlov. 16' that sleep 12, depending on who got lost at the original Hussongs. Langosta and Abs at La Bufadora with the original Senor Leon Toscano.
Now 10 years full time in paradise ?????????????? Sorry I just don't need anymore gringo friends. No offense. Can't say I feel sorry for the pending
doom of the condo fleet contaminating the coast.
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roundtuit
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Ensenada when there was only Hussongs, the Bahia an a ice house.. 20 yrs PV started 1 week first time ended 1 month for 10 yrs then mulege 4yrs
Never learned from a book-Only from mistakes, mine and yours
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CaboRon
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Location: The Valley of the Moon
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First Recorded Visit 1949
My first recorded visit to Old Mexico !
I am Pancho
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CaboRon
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bancoduo
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I only got to pet the Mexican ZEBRA
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sylens
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Location: Ensenada
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born in df (mexico city) in 1949, arrived in united states of america on july 4, 1956, stayed with grandparents summer 1961 in df, spent three weeks
in magdalena, sonora, mex in student exchange program from temple city hs in summer 1965, vacationed in mazatlan, cancun, puerto vallarta, etc most
summers from the early 80s, bought house in ensenada in 2000 and now live here permanently since 2004.
what a great trip it's been!
lili
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jeans
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Half of my father's weddings took place in Ensenada...
All of my mother's did too...
One of that total was to each other. 
I can only claim a honeymoon in 1971.
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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windgrrl
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First trip was from Alberta in 1988 in a 1975 VM camper van. Left Canada in -40 degree Celcius weather with a Chinook headwind. Drove straight south
for 3 days until we found mild weather in Vegas. Realized we would not make it to the tip of Baja and back within our 2-week vacation time and turned
around after a week's stay in San Felipe. Hooked ever since.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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capn.sharky
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Been going since the early 50's. Mainly to the Caliente Race track. Only off track betting on the west coast back then. Dad took me....as I got
older (14 years old) I started borrowing his car and dropping by the Club Macombo in TJ. That was where I got all my sex education.
If there is no fishing in heaven, I am not going
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capn.sharky
Been going since the early 50's. Mainly to the Caliente Race track. Only off track betting on the west coast back then. Dad took me....as I got
older (14 years old) I started borrowing his car and dropping by the Club Macombo in TJ. That was where I got all my sex education.
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Those were the REAL "good ol days", my friend. I am thinking that there are many on this board that id with your experience. (but maybe not???-----if not, that is a shame)
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David K
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Been going to Baja since 1965... a trip by Jeep to Bahia San Luis Gonzaga (with parents, I was about 8)... over the grades south from Puertecitos and
back.
We drove from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas the next year (1966)... took 2 weeks, then used the new ferry to Mazatlan to have paved roads to come home on.
Caught my first dorado that trip, off Cabo!
The next year (1967), we drove to Bahia de los Angeles and stayed at Casa Diaz (the only place to stay then)... we drove via Gonzaga, because even
thought the grades required low range four wheel drive to climb, it was still better than the dust bowl silt of Laguna Chapala we encountered on our
drive to Cabo the year before!
Photo overlooking Calamajue Canyon from the Dick Daggett gold mill ruins...
We camped often at Nuevo Mazatlan, south of San Felipe in the 60's... surf fishing was fantastic for corbina and croaker.
Before the trees were planted, Nuevo Mazatlan's founder (Luis Castellanos Moreno) built these cabañas on the beach and we would back a travel trailer
into one...
It wasn't long before Baja had more interest to us than the great fishing! We took weekend trips on more and more roads to see what Baja had to
share... Ensenada to San Felipe when it was all a dirt road after 10 miles from Ensenada... and here is a photo of my dad and I on the new road to
the Observatory in Oct. 1972 (I am 15)...
The first trip without my parents was when I was 16 and went with a high school friend during Easter Vacation, 1974... Here I am at 16 at Agua de
Mezquitito water hole, north of Gonzaga Bay:
I had a VW Manx buggy with a roof rack for camping gear. We did a big loop tour included El Rosario, Mision San Fernando, El Marmol & El Volcan,
Cataviña, Calamajue Canyon, Gonzaga Bay, Nuevo Mazatlan... Did a repeat of that trip in 1975 and had two other vehicles along to join my tour... My
buggy and an older one on the south road out of El Marmol...
For my graduation (June, 1976) my high school sweetie and I went to Loreto and L.A. Bay on the return in my Jeep... my parents came along in their car
as well. Here we are watching fishermen clean their catch at L.A. Bay...
I would take friends down to Baja for camping and off road races... After the Baja 500 (Score Baja Internacional) in June, 1978, we went up to the
observatory... I was 19 and Diablo Mountain was a lot older!
A great thrill for me was when I was invited to co-drive the Baja 1000, in 1979 (Ensenada to La Paz, Score's first time to La Paz). Here I am with car
owner Skip Ylhainen pre-running before the race.
Alas, we broke early in the race... but it was a thrill!
I still traveled to Baja with my folks, but now I was doing the driving! Here was maybe the last trip my dad was with us on a beach fishing trip...
near Laguna Manuela in 1983...
So, there you have the early years of my Baja travels... some of them anyway!
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Barry A.
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GREAT PHOTOS, David. Thanks for sharing---------you carry a lot of valuable history of Baja in your mind, and in your "library", that is for sure.
Viva Baja.
Barry
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