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bajalera
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If you could change just one thing about Baja California,
what would it be? (And please let's not have any "I wouldn't change a thing" responses, which indicate either that somebody hasn't been paying
attention or hasn't made many visits.)
Here's my change:
I would have made Highway One a separate route, and retained the old Carretera Transpeninsular as a toll road [with the fee steep enough to maintain
it in its usual haphazard state]. Ranches along it that served traditional food to travelers would continue to do so, but would also provide gas, ice,
tequila, and cold beer and sodas.
The new highway would occasionally be in sight, with access to it for the faint-of-heart. People who lasted all the way to La Paz would be given
Conquistador of the Carretera certificates suitable for framing, with their names hand-lettered.
Lera
[Edited on 12-17-2004 by bajalera]
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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elgatoloco
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When you crossed the border southbound time elapsed at 1/3 the normal rate, so that our two week trips would last six!!!! 
MAGA
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JESSE
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Easy,
I would declare Baja a free and independant nation from Mexico.
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Bob H
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I would like to have visited Bahia de los Muertos just ONE MORE TIME before the construction began! Just one more time...
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Mexitron
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Don't do that Jesse--our president might have designs!!!
I'd like to see a highway circumventing Camalu to San Quintin....the traffic is getting so bad there, and you wouldn't have speeding vacationers
endangering pedestrians lives in those cities.
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DanO
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Ban the plastic grocery bag.
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Bruce R Leech
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I would like to remove all crime corruption and drugs I guess crime would cover the other 2.
Bruce R Leech
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Debra
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I would figure out someway to make the border closer to me than a 2 day trip.
NO, Wait........I should move closer, that would solve my only problem. :yes
(I second banning plastic bags)
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Easy,
I would declare Baja a free and independant nation from Mexico. |
OK, but then what?
You would still have the same mindset, same politicos, same mafioso, same mordida...etc.
Wouldn't it be better to reform Mexico?
Your country has a wonderful constitution, independent spirit and caring populace. Wouldn't it be great if it really worked as designed?
If Mexico's people were freed from government exploitation there's no limit to what they could achieve.
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Oso
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Something similar to bajalera's idea; the major cities connected by a modern highway adequate for commercial traffic, but also something like Mex 1 as
a "parkway"(like the Blue Ridge)- a simple 2-lane, paved (with shoulders) but restricted, no semis or buses, with a 45mph limit. The terraceria (dirt
roads), I wouldn't change at all, and I wouldn't want the commercial route to go anywhere Mex 1 doesn't today.
If that's too pie-in-the-sky, I'd settle for un P-nche metro mas de pavimento.
[Edited on 12-17-2004 by Oso]
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gringorio
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Un-pave highway 1 
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Bruce R Leech
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drill it full of pot holes. the nicer you make it the worse it is for Baja. if you want to go to L.A. good if you want L.a here thin build a super
highway all the way down.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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Me No
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This is the easiest question I have ever heard of.
I wouldn't change a thing.
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jrbaja
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Reduce
the beer and tequila prices.
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thebajarunner
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Too easy!1
Peel up the pavement south of Maneadero.
Then only those who really, really, really want to be Baja folks can do so.
All else can stay home, or hang out on Avenida Revolucion.
Coming back from the 1971 Mexican 1000 we came upon a full box of tools sitting on a spare next to a broken Stroppe Bronco racer.
A day later, still there. On the main road!!
No mas, baby, No mas...
Baja Arriba!!
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Mexray
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It's hard to improve on such a great place like Baja California! Isn't that why we travel there? A few more fish in the Sea would be nice...
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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jim janet
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changes in Baja
Boy what a loaded question, I would not any non mexicans to own land, no more gringos,coscoes,marinas,Cabos.Let the original Baja be with out us.
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rts551
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geeze this is easy
you can have the paved roads/\. I liked it when it was dirt and took a few nice relaxing days - too many trucks and trailers now
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4baja
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cheaper beer, gas,less large trucks.
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Baja Bernie
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Go Back to about 1533
AND remove the Padre's, their missions and the mind set that destroyed all of the original people of Baja.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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