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boe4fun
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Hoctor's Baja Haha has some of the most hilarious anecdotes I've ever read.
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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elgatoloco
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Growing up in the LA area Jack Smith's column was a favorite around our house and especially delightful when he wrote about his ongoing experiences at
his casa in Baja. We could read his words eye view and commiserate and laugh at the experiences. My mom would save the paper and bring it down to our
campo so neighbors who did not get the paper could read the stories. Later when he put together the book and some new gringo family would move into
our campo God and Mr. Gomez was reccomended reading for sure.
The woman who became my wife and I once headed for the coast north of San Nicolas for an extended exploratory camp trip and I had been carrying around
a signed copy of 'King of The Moon' for several months and finally got to reading it and could not put it down. It is a very well written story. As
soon as I was finished the wife picked it up and agreed. Later we learned that very stretch of coastline was the inspiration for the setting of the
book.
Another favorite at our house is 'Enchilada,Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles. His storytelling is superb. Especially the story of El Gato. All his
characters end up being people who you wish you had known and you feel like you do.
MAGA
marooons Are Governing America
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ckiefer
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I have been looking for Enchilada, Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles; after reading Guacamole Dip and Tequila Lemon and Salt. Read God and Mr.
Gomez and also On Mexican Time. All good reads. When we finish Cosmic Banditos the next read will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
I have been looking for Enchilada, Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles; after reading Guacamole Dip and Tequila Lemon and Salt. Read God and Mr.
Gomez and also On Mexican Time. All good reads. When we finish Cosmic Banditos the next read will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
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Here ya go.........
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Enchiladas-Rice-and-Beans/D...
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marv sherrill
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maybe the best is the one not yet written.. my vote goes the Log to the Sea of Cortez - (loved King of the Moon and Mike Hs shadow of the volcano)
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lingililingili
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Mi Baja and Bouncing Around Baja by Bernie Swaim
I loved his stories and could just picture living here back when.
[Edited on 2/1/09 by lingililingili]
•Life is just one damned thing after another
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805gregg
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Steinbeck, for sure, I love to dream of how beautiful it was back then, and to go by boat is perfect. Wish the world wouldn't have found it. I knew I
had a Sea Of Cortez here somewhere, I finally found it, a first edition 1941, not in good shape but all there.
[Edited on 2-1-2009 by 805gregg]
[Edited on 2-1-2009 by 805gregg]
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bajabound2005
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There are many, but I truly enjoyed King of the Moon.
Edited for: whoa! That takes me to 2009 posts...and that's the YEAR we are in!
[Edited on 2-1-2009 by bajabound2005]
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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ckiefer
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
I have been looking for Enchilada, Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles; after reading Guacamole Dip and Tequila Lemon and Salt. Read God and Mr.
Gomez and also On Mexican Time. All good reads. When we finish Cosmic Banditos the next read will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
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Here ya go.........
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Enchiladas-Rice-and-Beans/D... |
Thanks Dennis. I was kinda looking for a copy of the book in a book store here. But if I can't locate it, I'll wait till I return. 
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
I have been looking for Enchilada, Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles; after reading Guacamole Dip and Tequila Lemon and Salt. Read God and Mr.
Gomez and also On Mexican Time. All good reads. When we finish Cosmic Banditos the next read will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
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Here ya go.........
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Enchiladas-Rice-and-Beans/D... |
Thanks Dennis. I was kinda looking for a copy of the book in a book store here. But if I can't locate it, I'll wait till I return. |
Here's Daniel autographing Enchiladas, Rice and Beans at The Pyramid Resort's 2005 Book Signing...
A very friendly guy!
[Edited on 2-2-2009 by David K]
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Mexitron
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Steinbeck, of course (although it was mentioned to me some time back that Doc Ricketts was probably responsible for a lot of the depth in the
book....).
God and Mr. Gomez--love that book and all his LA Times columns--in 2005 my old girlfriend's son and fiance were looking at houses to buy in the Mt.
Washington area and they wanted me to come help check out one of them--it was Jack Smith's house! His wife had just passed away and the kids were
selling the place--got to talk to his son who was showing it. Interesting, after reading his column for so many years the place was a lot how I had
pictured it--even saw the Airedale's dog run.
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805gregg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by ckiefer
I have been looking for Enchilada, Rice & Beans' by Daniel Reveles; after reading Guacamole Dip and Tequila Lemon and Salt. Read God and Mr.
Gomez and also On Mexican Time. All good reads. When we finish Cosmic Banditos the next read will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
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Here ya go.........
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Enchiladas-Rice-and-Beans/D... |
Thanks Dennis. I was kinda looking for a copy of the book in a book store here. But if I can't locate it, I'll wait till I return. |
Here's Daniel autographing Enchiladas, Rice and Beans at The Pyramid Resort's 2005 Book Signing...
A very friendly guy!
[Edited on 2-2-2009 by David K] |
Very cool, I love signed additions, I have a signed and dedicated "Sea of Cortez" by Ray Cannon, it's a 1973 edition dedicated Hotel San Lucas. Anyone
know of a Hotel San Lucas in 1973? I was at the tip in '73 and I don't remember that one.
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Steinbeck, of course (although it was mentioned to me some time back that Doc Ricketts was probably responsible for a lot of the depth in the
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Ricketts obviously had great influence on Steinbeck, but I think the narrative writing was all Steinbeck. Steinbeck and Ricketts co-authored the
original work, "Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research", which included both the narrative and the scientific descriptions of the
animals. After Ricketts died in 1948 Steinbeck dropped the scientific stuff and republished the narrative as "The Log From the Sea of Cortez" with
himself as the sole author and a eulogy to Ricketts.
A really interesting description of the trip "With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez", was written by Sparky Enea, a crew member on the Western Flyer.
It was published in 1991 by Sand River Press in Los Osos, CA.
[Edited on 2-3-2009 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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LaTijereta
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Nice thoughts
For images that never get old = Ray Cannon's "Sea of Cortez"
For land adventure = 1960's Marquis McDonald's "Baja:Land of Lost Missions" is set before "Uncle Earl's" adventures.
For water adventure = 1930's "Enchanted Vagabonds" by Dana & Ginger Lamb has them sailing down and around the Baja and Sea of Coretz in a 15'
boat.
Both books credit their research/ information from Arthur W. North's "Camp & Camino in Lower California" from his exploration through Baja in
1908.
He provides a great description of Baja, and the turn of the century history that unfolded in Lower California....
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin (1759)
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vacaenbaja
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Any works By our very own Humpheville, Smith and Swaim
"The Long walk to Mulege" by Hale
"Hardly Any Fences" John Hilton
Tom Millers various works
Any Mike McMahan Baja book
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David K
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805, there was/ is the Hotel Cabo San Lucas... Never heard a hotel without the 'Cabo' in it... in 1973... and it wasn't even in Cabo... It was 10
miles from Cabo/ 14 miles from San Jose del Cabo, in El Tule, near Puerto Chileno.
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jodiego
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I love all the Erle Stanley Gardner books, if for no other reason than they are about a time and a place when baja was truly was, "The Land of Shorter
Shadows." He has to be the original Baja Nomad.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jodiego
I love all the Erle Stanley Gardner books, if for no other reason than they are about a time and a place when baja was truly was, "The Land of Shorter
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Big 10-4 on that!
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Ken Cooke
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'Baja Adventures by Land, Air, Sea' by Marvin Patchen
'Into a Desert Place' by Graham Mackintosh
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"Baja Adventures by Land, Air, Sea" - Marvin Patchen
"Into A Desert Place" - Graham Mackintosh
My two favorite books related to Baja.
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Marla Daily
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Favorite Baja Book
Harry Crosby's LAST OF THE CALIFORNIOS gets my vote!!
Extremely hard to find these days!
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