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ArroyoTaxi
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Location: Los Barriles
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Good: Fresh Tortillas, Avocados, Grins, Salsa, Fiestas, Huevos Rancheros, Wind. Goats.
Bad: Dog Poo on the beach every fing morning, People who kick sand over their dog poo, Bad building practices. Horrendous Duvet covers. Clunky cheap
uncomfortable furniture, Exterior House Paint Colors.
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2-tie-dye-4
Nomad
Posts: 145
Registered: 9-25-2008
Location: Jerome, AZ population, strange
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Mood: jonesin' for Baja
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PS. I haven't read all the posts yet, but saw the topic of dissing Baja. I was surprised to read that. Unless they are talking about border towns,
and in my experience, a border town is a border town, all the way around the planet. Not a fair representation of the culture within. And I've been
around the planet, it's the same everywhere.
We\'re all here cuz we\'re not all there, mountain stranded time
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Gypsy Jan
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Registered: 1-27-2004
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Mood: Depends on which way the wind is blowing
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My Ocean View is Waves and Birds
No loud noisy jet boats or whatever they are called. In the morning the seagulls and pelicans fish for breakfast alongside the resident pangeros
tending to their traps.
Smog less sunsets (of course, sometimes, the off-shore overcast interferes with the green flash - quietly)
The people - the hard working locals who we interact with and share a genuine friendship, who invite us into their lives.
The people again, the casual encounters with locals who, when you treat them with courtesy and your shabby Spanish, are so impressed and grateful that
you care to communicate with them.
The military, who are trying to contain a very dangerous situation - when stopped, I roll down my windows and say, "Buenas Dias" - they wave me
through with a smile and when I say, "Gracias", the smile gets bigger.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Shark18
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Registered: 5-4-2007
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 2-tie-dye-4
PS. I haven't read all the posts yet, but saw the topic of dissing Baja. I was surprised to read that. Unless they are talking about border towns,
and in my experience, a border town is a border town, all the way around the planet. Not a fair representation of the culture within. And I've been
around the planet, it's the same everywhere. |
San Diego is a border town and it is a pretty good representation of the culture of America.
Which planet have you been around?
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Skipjack Joe
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Posts: 8088
Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
I just thought I could sit down and describe how baja has influenced my life and sat down at the computer and didn't know where to start...I was
overrun with images, and feelings, and memories...where do we start? |
Go back in time, Michael.
Back to your first visits. Back to that feeling of enchantment you had in the beginning. More than likely, that's where to look.
I don't respond any more because this question has been asked many times, in many forms. Repeating the reasons seems to diminish them somehow.
Besides, I've had a few beers tonight.
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woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15940
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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Mood: Everchangin'
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it's all rights!
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mulegemichael
Super Nomad
Posts: 2310
Registered: 12-24-2007
Location: sequim,wa. and mulege
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Ya know, Skipjack, you're right. So I went back, some 40 years, to my first REAL trip to Baja. I hitchhiked down the west coast from Washington State
with a buddy after I got out of the Navy. We somehow ended up at Punta Banda; that's where we first threw our sleeping bags down in the sand. Not a
soul in any direction then. Liked it so much we built a driftwood shelter on the beach and were still there 10 months later....digging clams with our
hands, spearing fish with homemade "spearguns", raiding the cornfields for our "veggies", sitting around the fire with the locals not understanding a
word that was said, helping set and pull the beach nets for a fish for dinner, hiking to maneadero and buying 10 cent loaves of bread at the bakery
there, getting up before sunrise everyday so that we were the first ones on the beach to harvest any "valuables" that might have washed up overnight.
I've got a feeling PB isn't like that anymore...but the memories are still there.
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Skeet/Loreto
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Michael: Very well said; Please pardon me from a Copy of your experience:
1967 reading the Sea of Cortez by Ray Cannon thinking is the Fishing that Good??Taking my little Cessna South for the first time, landing at a small
dirt Strip,taxi to the back of a little Motel, having a Totouva Dinner with Garlic.
On To the South watching the Fish Pilups,the Giant Rays as large as a
Room playing on top of the Water. Landing at the Old Sportsman Strip after shooing away the Donkeys, Going fishing the First time with Alvaro Murillo
who became and is still my Best Friend after all these years. Watching him raise his family of 5 Girls now raising 10 Grand Kids{Nito;s, Nita;s}.
Building Rancho Sonrisa on the Beach with Rodrigo, Bianco, Mundo all who became Friends as they shared their life with Us.
Heading out at 4 in the Morning for a Day of Fishing, living with the Good Folks of San Nicholas for 4 years, diving for "White Lobsters, catching an
800 Lbs Shark, and most of all learning from the People that "It don't make no Nevermind".. Not to Worry--Mannana is good enough for Me!!
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 65298
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Boojum Trees and Bighorn Sheep... and all the other countless magical events that one can only experience in Baja!
[Edited on 9-28-2008 by David K]
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Skipjack Joe
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Location: Bahia Asuncion
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Thank you for the Pt. Banda memories, Michael, as it got me going in the same direction, also about 40 years ago.
I first came on it with a Fritz party boat. I'll bet they no longer exist. Couldn't have been older then 16 back then. They had gathered squid the
night before and we had live bait. My God, how those calicos love it. The squid would run out and the line just peeled off, as those jumbo calicos
chased them down. And if you got tired of them you just let it sink to the bottom and big sheephead were just as greedy. We caught sheephead in the
15lb range.
I remember it well. It was a grey misty morning and the surf was pounding the rocks just beyond the longest cast. One of my best trips ever. Catalina
had been fished out by then and Pt. Banda was so special.
So, a great thing about baja: the fishing
P.S. Great picture, Woody! It certainly captures the essence of your dream. I'll bet it's those visions of waves that keep you coming back again and
again.
[Edited on 9-28-2008 by Skipjack Joe]
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ArroyoTaxi
Exterior House Paint Colors. |
Oh for goodness sakes - now the newbies are getting their licks in. 5 gallons of 'Italiano Rose' coming your way, dude.
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Dave
Elite Nomad
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You must not get out much
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
The food is the best in the world. |
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8964
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
The food is the best in the world. |
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In the past year, I have been to Miami (overnight stay), Colombia 4X, Peru, El Salvador, Tecate, Tijuana, San Felipe, Gonzaga Bay, LA Bay, Cataviña,
El Rosario...I haven't gotten out much lately? 
In Barranquilla, Colombia - Blanca made my traditional Colombian meals each day at the hotel's restaurant.
Fruit stand in Cartegena, Colombia - November '07
Ron Medellin Rum won the rum taste test over Bacardi & Captain Morgans!
I've been taste-testing foods all over the hemisphere, and whats served between Ensenada and Tijuana is world-class. Trust me. 
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Dave
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Sorry, but trust needs to be earned
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
I've been taste-testing foods all over the hemisphere, and whats served between Ensenada and Tijuana is world-class. Trust me. |
I live between Ensenada and Tijuana. 99% of the food here is crap. Two notable exceptions are Laja and Slivestre.
In Ensenada: Muelle Tres or Manzanillo. Heard good things about El Olivo but haven't tried it yet.
Several good restaurants in TJ.
But between TJ and Ensenada is slim pickins...even for peasant food.
Let us know if you make it to France or Italy. 
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
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Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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I was in France - the food wasn't that good.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
I live between Ensenada and Tijuana. 99% of the food here is crap. Two notable exceptions are Laja and Slivestre.
But between TJ and Ensenada is slim pickins...even for peasant food.
Let us know if you make it to France or Italy.
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Los Arcos in Tijuana was incredible. At Playas there are a couple of great Mariscos restaurants that I fell in love with. Puerto Nuevo has a couple
of great restaurants - with an incredible ocean view. Personally, I have not felt let down by the food in Northern Baja.
Ceviche originated in Lima, Peru. With the shrimp deep-fried with its' head/antennae still attached, I just did not enjoy it. The flavor was nothing
in comparison with that of what I have enjoyed in San Felipe, Tijuana, or Puerto Nuevo.
I did have some great Mariscos in San Salvador in July '07. But, upon returning to Playas de Tijuana, I knew the food was better tasting, even though
the view was of a busy street - not a lush, Tropical courtyard. Sorry, but the food in Baja speaks for itself.
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8964
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
I live between Ensenada and Tijuana. 99% of the food here is crap. Two notable exceptions are Laja and Slivestre.
But between TJ and Ensenada is slim pickins...even for peasant food.
Let us know if you make it to France or Italy.
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If you chose to move to Northern Baja, and you have a palette for European cuisine, why didn't you stay in the United States??? Not being sarcastic,
just wondering how you can stay if you dislike the food there, that's all...
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tjBill
Senior Nomad
Posts: 516
Registered: 10-6-2007
Location: Tijuana
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My favorite thing about Baja: so close to the USA but so different
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Iflyfish
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Registered: 10-17-2006
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Nature and surprises! The People and a slower pace. Did I mention Yellow Tail, hospitality and good friends?
Iflyfish
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Desertsurfergal
Junior Nomad
Posts: 46
Registered: 1-30-2008
Location: Lake Havasu City, Az
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Mood: wishful..for Baja
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I love the adventure of travel and finding new places to surf, recipies, and meeting new people and interacting with new friends. Baja has a way of
slowing myself down and really taking in the beauty around me.
\"Life\'s a journey, not a destination...\" Aerosmith
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hippiehooters
Newbie
Posts: 2
Registered: 9-15-2008
Location: Loreto, BCS & Sacramento
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Mood: ever changin'
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What is good about Baja? My experience has always been positive...
Loreto, and most of the people that live here...are wonderful...
The Sea of Cortez, especially in the fall...for it's beauty and it's bounty...October, the weather has cooled off but the water is still warm...add a
full moon & good company, what more do you need?
Fresh squeezed orange juice, tortilla's fresh from the "factory", hand-made ice cream, Sonora beef, fresh BBQ'd hickory smoked chicken.
Sunrise over the Cortez, and Sunset over the Mountains.
No mortgage, low taxes, and new trash cans on the beach.
In 15 years, I've never encountered a "bandit" of any kind, or had any of the "bad" things happen that I've read about here (and elsewhere). I've
been up & down the peninsula, through as many as 5 checkpoints on any given day, without a problem. No corrupt cops, no mordida, no dishonest gas
station attendants... ...
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