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wilderone
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I have a friend who built the San Diego app. When it's totally available (soon), it will cost $3. Built a Baja app, for a nominal fee.
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wilderone
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"...all Nomads could write a book about their trips or adventures in Baja!"
A special "bonus" chapter of 'The Strange and Wonderful"
In collaboration with Doug: "The Bajanomad Exclusive Guide to Baja" - a compilation of particularly intriguing, informative message strings. (Hey,
if a book can be published about guest book entries ("Baja Outpost") ....)
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
I have a friend who built the San Diego app. When it's totally available (soon), it will cost $3. Built a Baja app, for a nominal fee.
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I don't understand... 'app.' ?
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wilderone
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You can access it on your cell phone (if it has that capability) - like an icon on your computer - to provide information. Anyone from around the
world could purchase your app to have Baja info at their fingertips.
"... shorthand for the ubiquitous software applications that live on iPhones, iPod Touches and an array of mobile devices running Google's Android
operating system — continue their inexorable march from cellphone novelties to virtual personal assistants.
More than 100,000 apps now populate Apple's App Store, which opened for business two years ago. Since then, more than 2 billion apps have been
downloaded at prices ranging from free to $900 (for iRa Pro, which links a phone to a surveillance camera network).
Tech specialists estimate the annual app market at $2 billion. That probably will grow once Apple's iPad, which arrives Saturday, gets going with a
new breed of apps aimed at redefining the user experience."
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David K
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So who built a Baja app. ?
You would need to help us older Nomads on how it works... and do we need an i-phone or can today's cell phones pick it up, like they can see the web?
How would that work in Baja with no cell service... or does it store in your phone?
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wilderone
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"built" was an error. I meant to say "[you] build a Baja app"
"How would that work in Baja with no cell service... or does it store in your phone?"
Not sure about this (if the cell phone service is dependent on communication towers). I would think internet downloads would work because they're
stored otherwise. An app would certainly work in a wireless laptop wherever you'd get wireless connection. I'm not that WiFi savvy - don't own a cell
phone either, but others here would certainly know more.
I've seen my friend's app. She brings it up on her phone, it can sort by various categories - like restaurants, activities with children - or totally
alphabetically, and people can read short blurbs about it and see 3-4 photos. For the nominal fee, the information is well worth it. She has to keep
it updated and she will be adding information - it will get better and better as it evolves.
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David K
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Nothing beats a book in your hands for easy viewing no matter where you are... There is no cell service between El Rosario and Guerrero Negro, or
south of San Felipe... beyond where the towers in those places can reach.
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racheldarlin
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I have a friend who used to windsurf in La Ventana. He complained to me one day in a moment of nostalgia that there are now hundreds of people
tripping over one another in this beautiful place he and a couple of his buddies used love and have to all themselves. He cursed that it was now being
"loved to death" because of Hwy 1 and the philistines " from the land of silliness" (Ca), amongst other reasons.
I asked him if he had ever told anybody else about his "secret" place and, of course, he had. In fact he used to have slide shows (this was before
digital photography and the internet) for his friends and wrote a couple of articles for surfer magazines.
I told him as gently as I could that the next time he found a secret place he should keep it to himself or become reconciled to the fact that Baja is
going to eventually look like SoCal or Hawaii. It is well on it's way.
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Mexray
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ESG also wrote about the Nor-Calif Delta...
...in two books that 'bracketed' the release of his 'Magic Square' book:
# Gypsy Days on the Delta (1967)
# Mexico's Magic Square (1968)
# Drifting Down the Delta (1969)
He purchased several River Queen houseboats for his Calif Delta adventures, so his entourage could be nearby...
The River Queen's were stout, single hull, steel vessels suited for exploring the Delta...They were powered by one or two Chrysler Marine engines with
heavy outdrives hung on the stern...
We used to 'boat' all over the Delta in the 70's, and when we moved to the Stockton/Lodi area in the late 80's, I lusted after one of ESG's River
Queens to carry our whole family on our backwater adventures in the Delta...
The River Queens were long out of production by this time, but as luck would have it, I found a 30 ft'r languishing in a boat yard in Antioch - it was
in need of lot's of loving care, but, hey, I had the time!
I had it hauled over to our Battery shop's parking lot, where I propped it up on some oil drums, to work on the hull...
I had to 'jacket' the keel with new steel panels, and several of the bottom areas as well...the engine was 'frozen' and had to be sent to a rebuilder
for a complete overhaul...
I installed new wiring, plumbing, pumps, tanks, etc., to bring it up-to-date inside...
I sand blasted the 'beast', and gave it fresh coats of top and bottom paint...
We named our RQ, "Four C's", as there were four in our family, and our sur name started with 'C' (Cellar)...hey, we thought it was clever!
The day came to launch the Four C's, and the boat trucker guy backed into one of the support barrels, knocking the RQ to the ground, breaking the
outdrive! We were one bunch of unhappy boaters that day!
After I repaired and installed the outdrive, we tried the launch routine again - this time with success! She floated like a dream, fired right up for
our maiden voyage down the river to her new 'home port' at Herman & Helen's Marina near the mighty San Joaquin River!
The old RQ gave us good service for several years, exploring the Delta region - we met several other surviving RQ's in our travels, as those old steel
hulls seemed to live forever in the Delta's fresh water rivers and sloughs...
We passed the old RQ along to another family after about five years, as we found an old Marine Trader Trawler to carry our our boating family to
greater adventures down to the SF Bay, under the golden Gate Bridge, and out into the ocean a few times...
We still have the old Trawler, for our extended family's enjoyment here on the 1,000 miles of waterways in the Delta that ESG also enjoyed so many
years ago...
Ray
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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Cypress
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Mexray, Thanks. Good times!
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Jack Swords
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On our IPod touch, we can access the Internet, e-mail, etc. from anywhere in the world via wireless. Any wireless that you can connect to serves as a
portal to the Internet. In the States, Starbucks, Mcdonalds, etc. have free Wifi. There are free aps that will find nearby Wifi hotspots and map the
locations for you. Most libraries have free Wifi. With Skype (also a free ap), you can make phone calls over the Internet for very little money (you
have on deposit with Skype). Yahoo messenger, and others, allow Ipod to computer communication (even video calls) for free (Yahoo messenger is also
an ap-free). Borders do not matter anymore, it's a brave new world.
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bajalera
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A little drizzle of rain for the Gardner parade:
ESG wrote great Bajadventure prose but was not a friendly outdoor neighbor. We were camped out at the south end of Coyote Bay in 1964, having been
given permission to use the little rustic cabin that was there then by the rancher living across the road. This was a favorite Baja campsite of my
three pre-teen kids, because there was a little hut alongside the road where a lady sold really great panocha, which she made with a hand-powered
cast-iron stirring machine. (There was a lot of truck traffic on the bad old road even in this days, and the little candy shop was a favorite stop for
sweet-toothed truckers, too.)
One day an expedition that included just about every off-road vehicle known to man pulled in to the north of us and set up a camp. For a couple of
days various odd-looking conveyances came down the beach past us, turned around and passed by again on their way back--but none of the drivers noticed
us sitting there.
My two sons kept telling each other they wished we had things like that to ride in.
A woman who I later figured out must have been ESG's Significant Other hiked down the beach and back, and was able to see me. We exchanged smiles but
she didn't slow down or say hello.
A boat that passed by close to shore one day was operated by someone at the bow; seated at midsection was a man who stared straight ahead, with arms
folded across his chest in a serious, I-am-in-charge sort of way. We saw him again on the road, where he sat staring straigt ahead in a vehicle
someone else was driving. Not difficult to Guess Who.
I wanted to go over in the evening for a visit, but my husband the archaeologist didn't think this was a good idea. (Archaeologists are about as
territorial as tigers and mocking birds, and he must have suspected that a colleague was invading his territory.)
When the expedition left, its trucks stopped for a time at the base of El Coyote grade, and somebody shouted, "Remember that Power Wagon!" That had to
be us. Some of ESG's books have a few sort of paranoid comments about people folllowing his explorers, and we may have filled this role.
We went past the site where they had camped on our way to somewhere else, and there were no signs that anyone had ever been there, although it had
been a bit llittered before their arrival.
[Edited on 12-17-2010 by bajalera]
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Barry A.
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ESG was a very busy man, and seldom hob-knobbed with hoi paloi. 
Even when in Baja, he was continually flying back to the States with updates and changes to his manuscripts for PERRY MASON, as I remember. Busy,
busy, busy!!!!
He was a difficult man, most of the time, from what I have read, an affliction of many very talented people.
Loved his books.
Barry
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David K
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Gardner (known as 'Uncle Erle' by all in his party) had a softy side...
He loved people... and his Baja books were always about the people he met or where part of his expeditions.
Choral Pepper told me that he was very generous and covered ALL costs for anyone invited to be a part of his expeditions.
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bajalera
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He looked way better staring straight ahead.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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capt. mike
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was he a trained lawyer?
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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wilderone
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From Wikipedaea
"Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories, who also published under the pseudonyms
A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr."
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TMW
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It's Wikipedea, don't you know the spell checker will get you for things like this. Where's DK when you need him.
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In the mid 1970's I was at my casa on Coyote Bay (near Pompano's old casa) when the wind picked up during the night. I had my 17 foot 1965 Boston
Whaler anchored just off shore. At first light I looked out there and it was gone! I ran down the beach to the only other people around and asked a
guy with a boat to help me out. We went out looking for my whaler and found it about 10 feet off a point a mile or so away. The rode was too short
and the wind just pulled up the Danforth anchor. He introduced himself as J.W. Black and from then on he was my hero. Coyote Bay was one of his
favorite camping sites. Another time when I was there he was there with his father. His father died one night on the beach unexpectedly and J. W. put
him in a sleeping bag and drove him back home.That was the story.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Vince
In the mid 1970's I was at my casa on Coyote Bay (near Pompano's old casa) when the wind picked up during the night. I had my 17 foot 1965 Boston
Whaler anchored just off shore. At first light I looked out there and it was gone! I ran down the beach to the only other people around and asked a
guy with a boat to help me out. We went out looking for my whaler and found it about 10 feet off a point a mile or so away. The rode was too short
and the wind just pulled up the Danforth anchor. He introduced himself as J.W. Black and from then on he was my hero. Coyote Bay was one of his
favorite camping sites. Another time when I was there he was there with his father. His father died one night on the beach unexpectedly and J. W. put
him in a sleeping bag and drove him back home.That was the story. |
It was fun when I talked to J.W. Black on the phone researching the location of the 'lost mission' or 'strange walls' for Choral Pepper... J.W.
couldn't remember exactly where they found them in 1966, but it was great to talk to another member of the Gardner team! I had also talked with Bruce
Barron and Ricardo Castillo... Thanks to Amigos de Baja (incl. Pompano, Barry A, & Lindsay) for the contact information back in 2001.
[Edited on 12-20-2010 by David K]
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