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SyntaxJO
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August in La Paz
Finally heading out again, possibly for a solo trip!
Planning a trip to head out to La Paz for the second week of August with a few days at Tecalote. Will I be able to stand the heat or should I plan
something for the pacific side? like Todos Santos?
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karenintx
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The Pacific side is always cooler...especially in August and September.
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comitan
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The heat is bearable, the humidity is uncomfortable, there is also a very good chance of a Hurricane that time of the year.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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bigzaggin
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Spare yourself and go to Todos. La Paz will be sweltering, nite & day.
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SyntaxJO
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Perfect thanks! - I am wondering, however. When I passed through Todos it seemed a little posh. Can I get by there on the cheap? Is there street
food? Good beaches to camp on or 30$ hotels?
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Osprey
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Go to La Paz. What heat? Stay in or near the water, wasted. Take music, a little money for ice, whatever. Don't be a sissy.
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comitan
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Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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karenintx
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Do you surf...
http://www.pescaderosurf.com/camp.php
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DavidE
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Try temperatures of 105 /84 humidity 65% / 95% day/night
Living twenty feet from the water south of T.S. the temp was OK but the air was saturated.
Guerrero Negro / San Quintin make fine escape hatches if things get out of hand.
Would have loved to see some of you lizards try and stay in Sta Rosalia in July when I measured the heat at 123F and 101F at the crack of dawn. The
town emptied and folks were staying up on the bluffs. That same period I measured 111F in Mulege and 88F at dawn. NIST thermometer, set in NOAA
approved enclosure in the shade of course.
At the moment more than seven hundred miles to the southeast of Cabo our temps are in the mid to high eighties, with a 54% humidity. Overnight low was
74F with a humidity of rain. This is on the coast.
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vandenberg
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Get yourself a girlfriend like Hillary. That should keep you cool.
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SyntaxJO
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What a conundrum. So I guess it's just gonna be hot. I thought that T.S. would be quite cooler but now I'm finding out that I am close to completely
wrong.
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SyntaxJO
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Oh that reminds me - I'll be doing an episode of my show "Breaking Down" in Baja while I'm there. It's for an episode called "Scary Mexico" which
essentially is showing that most of Mexico (namely Baja) isn't scary at all. I'd love to interview some people in the Sur while I'm down. Let me
know if you're interested. I just started the show and although I'll have an intro out soon I won't be filming the first episode in LA until July 3rd
so there's nothing to see -- but here's the website anyhow:
www.breaking-down.com
I'll do another post about it soon.
[Edited on 6-14-2010 by SyntaxJO]
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capt. mike
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Mr Eidell - good to see you around here.
i always enjoyed your insight into all things mexico not only baja.
hope you become frequent!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SyntaxJO
Finally heading out again, possibly for a solo trip!
Planning a trip to head out to La Paz for the second week of August with a few days at Tecalote. Will I be able to stand the heat or should I plan
something for the pacific side? like Todos Santos? |
la paz is not very high on my list of places to visit in august... well, it's not even on the august list 
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SyntaxJO
Oh that reminds me - I'll be doing an episode of my show "Breaking Down" in Baja while I'm there. It's for an episode called "Scary Mexico" which
essentially is showing that most of Mexico (namely Baja) isn't scary at all. I'd love to interview some people in the Sur while I'm down. Let me
know if you're interested. I just started the show and although I'll have an intro out soon I won't be filming the first episode in LA until July 3rd
so there's nothing to see -- but here's the website anyhow:
www.breaking-down.com
I'll do another post about it soon.
[Edited on 6-14-2010 by SyntaxJO] |
you show sounds like lonely planet travelogue desiring to climb to level of success of huell howser, but keeping the reality show edginess and
griminess.
huell howser will always be the king! no travelogue will ever surpass california gold!
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Bajahowodd
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Geez. I'm hoping that your affection for Huell is because of the "camp" factor. Personally, he wears on me with his continual sucking up to anyone and
anything.
All that said, Sr. Syntax, don't get scared off from Todos. Yes, it's true that in August, the humidity is very high. But, at the end of the day, it
is still several degrees cooler than La Paz.
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monoloco
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I would recommend Punta Abreojos, Asuncion, Bahia Tortugas area in August.
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BooJumMan
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I camped the entire month of August last year through southern Baja... Todos Santos was a tad cooler than La Paz, but not much. Staying in a hotel
with AC is totally doable. We didn't have AC, and sweated out the nights. It wasn't all that bad, you eventually get used to it, and drink lots of
water and gatorade  Camped on the east cape for a week and probably won't ever do
that again in August in my life... 
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SyntaxJO
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
you show sounds like lonely planet travelogue desiring to climb to level of success of huell howser, but keeping the reality show edginess and
griminess.
huell howser will always be the king! no travelogue will ever surpass california gold! |
Yikes. All respect to the king but please shoot me in the back of the head if you ever catch me ecstatically inquiring about how old the studs are
behind the drywall of whatever random place I happen to be in. And please make sure that the majority of my camera shots aren't of the subjects butts
and elbows. I'm sure I can deliver something a little more interesting than intense interrogation about a picture that came with the frame it's in
that happens to be on a nightstand of some person that has nothing to do with any kind of topic or theme of the episode.
Although I wish I could travel more the show is actually 99% based in LA where I live (big surprise). It's just a show about what interests me but I
actually have a point for making each episode so that there's some sort of story arc to them. This episode in particular is about how most of Mexico
really isn't as scary as everyone in America thinks. I thought since I was vacationing in Baja that I should film part of it. But if you're cool
hangin with our sweet simple friend Mr. Huell Howser than you go to it. He's like California's own Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump Gold.
[Edited on 6-15-2010 by SyntaxJO]
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rhintransit
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if you want to (mentally) break down in Baja, I think La Paz in August would be great. be sure to stay in an unairconditioned third floor west facing
concrete block low budget hotel in a barrio far from the malecon during hurricane season and make sure it's a time there's no water to the area and
the reserve tank is dry. oh, and walk or bus everywhere. no cheating on taxis.
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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