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[*] posted on 7-25-2004 at 03:50 PM


O.K. O.K.....you can have the washboard roads...:o

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[*] posted on 7-25-2004 at 03:57 PM


Loosing the cook at c-ckteliera Mazatlan who really knew how to make Almejas al Carbon like you never tasted before. The new cook can't seem to get it right. :fire:
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[*] posted on 7-25-2004 at 05:31 PM
THE VERY WORST THING ABOUT BAJA!


I ain't there, as bad as it gets!
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[*] posted on 7-25-2004 at 06:34 PM
3 things!


1. Paved road south of Maneadero

2. "Civilization" between TJ and Ensenada

3. So darn far from here!!

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[*] posted on 7-25-2004 at 07:40 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by Bob H
Loosing the cook at c-ckteliera Mazatlan who really knew how to make Almejas al Carbon like you never tasted before. The new cook can't seem to get it right. :fire:
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 06:05 AM


runnins out of ice and you still have 4 cases of beer left. warm beer :fire:
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 06:18 AM
Checkpoints...


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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 06:20 AM
fawked up fees at some random


aero puertos!! Like Loreto.......rip off artists.

And the bozos who want to pull your 180 day visas when you file out to the states.

also, clearing out of the country from a designated A.O.E. Sucks....really sucks, man!!!!:mad::fire:




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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 08:28 AM


EGL.... Mateo... sorry to say... but the new cook just can't get it right. Hopefully the locals will straighten him/her out!
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 09:54 AM
cuban and other good cigars sold sll over


- none of which have been properly stored!! then they waNT TO CHARGE TOP buck to the stupid tourists. $10-$15 for a cigar and it tastes like caca! ha!! i bring my own in a portable humi.

note - that above criticism doesn't include the few good stores in some cities like Ensenada and the cape zone.




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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 10:05 AM


TOPES

How many of us remember the first tope you ever encountered in Baja? It felt like my transmission was going to fall out. That was 30 years ago next to the town Triunfo. Fortunately my wife figured out on the first one that the words were related to the bump.

They are way better these days. You get a series of smaller bumps (tremblador, or something like that) before you hit the real thing. But I still manage to hit one on each trip.

They come in a variety of forms. The town of Pueblo San Lucas (next to San Lucas Cove) simply has these massively thick ropes laying across the road next to the school. They work suprisingly well.
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 10:47 AM


There is a topes that I hit hard going to Playa Tecolote out of La Paz that ripped one of my truck airbags apart. It sounded like a small bomb going off!
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 10:49 AM
TOPES...


I sure remember discovering topes. It was our first trip to Baja, plane had landed very late afternoon in Cabo and DH was driving the tiny rental car fast in order to reach La Paz before dark. I'm reading road signs and looking in my little dictionary for translations. So I'm thumbing through pages muttering "tope, tope" when ka-boom!, heads slam into car roof. Oh yeah, tope. One word we'll never forget. :o:wow::no::lol:

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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 12:15 PM


Worst thing about Baja is going home!
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 01:40 PM
Not if you live here


hahahahahahaha. Lest we not forget, there is still a BAD tope about a mile or less south of the Mulege bridge that will rattle yer cage !
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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 01:59 PM
worst thing


So hard to find buttermilk for my favorite pancake recipe.

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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 02:21 PM


Buttermild substitute: 1 cup milk w/ 1 tsp. of vinegar.
Worst thing? Canadians in general
and anyone else driving 25-40 ft. motorhomes on Mex. 1.
Next to the worst thing? Being anywhere around Capt. Mike smoking a cigar.
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rolleyes.gif posted on 7-26-2004 at 05:11 PM
Wilderone


Gee---I hope the canadians don't get the idea that we don't just love their company. I love following a Canadian Caravan down the Baja. These people stop on curves and stop when another big rig or truck is coming the other way. Why they don't get rear ended is a mystory to me. Is that how Cannucks drive in the North? Another thing that puzzles me is when they pull off for the night---they never leave their motorhomes to look around. The Mexicans say they are muy coto (cheap). Maybe living in all that snow does something to the brain. Oh well it takes all kinds, I guess.



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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 05:23 PM


Been there, done that, Wilderone. No way is the milk/vinegar or lime juice substitute the same.

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[*] posted on 7-26-2004 at 05:46 PM


Have you tried soured milk? We save spoiled milk to be used in baking. Have used it for pancakes and waffles too.



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