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DENNIS
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This site, BajaNomad, will serve a much larger purpose in the future. It will, along with select books, offer Baja as it used to be. A Baja that is no
longer accessible to the adventurous traveler. Every day, the honored reality dies a bit more.
Thank God for what's left of my memory. I can honestly say I was here when it was the real Baja.
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Cypress
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Location: on the bayou
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
This site, BajaNomad, will serve a much larger purpose in the future. It will, along with select books, offer Baja as it used to be. A Baja that is no
longer accessible to the adventurous traveler. Every day, the honored reality dies a bit more.
Thank God for what's left of my memory. I can honestly say I was here when it was the real Baja. |
I was about 20 yrs. too late, but have found other places that are only getting better.
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Woooosh
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Location: Rosarito Beach
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
This site, BajaNomad, will serve a much larger purpose in the future. It will, along with select books, offer Baja as it used to be. A Baja that is no
longer accessible to the adventurous traveler. Every day, the honored reality dies a bit more.
Thank God for what's left of my memory. I can honestly say I was here when it was the real Baja. |
I used to drive my 66 VW bus down Baja to surf in the early 80's. I remember more horses than cars on the main dirt road through Rosarito. Built my
house at one spot I used to surf there too. I think many of us don't want to accept the reality today no longer meshes with our memories. It's the
same for everyone everywhere on this earth though. I sure wouldn't want to be young again growing up in this world. We got the best of it. Could be
worse.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I sure wouldn't want to be young again growing up in this world. We got the best of it. Could be worse. |
| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
I guess it depends when you started going and what your basis for comparison is. |
These 2 comments should be linked together. Woooosh'es statement and soulpatch's observation. Everyone's standard starts with the first trip. Those
posts we read now thanking us for tips and suggestions are from people who are now setting their baseline for baja and it has little to do with the
past. They will fish in front of Russ' home at Chivato and be delighted with the experience.
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Pompano
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Registered: 11-14-2004
Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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Don't cry for me, Baja Surrrrr...
Hah..I see the rumor mill is grinding away...which is okay, it's all part of the experience south of the border. 
But...Who said I was leaving Baja?
Hells Bells..I could never leave my old mistress, we have way too much good history together.
As a matter of fact, I am driving OldSouthwind
down the Baja Road tomorrow..for round trip number 151 (roughly guessing)
Attention: Heading south from Chula Vista around noon tomorrow if anyone is in the vicinity and wants to caravan, ride point, ride drag, ride
shotgun, and tell tale tales over a campfire.
I'm looking forward to some great yellowtail and pinto fishing...plus I need my Coyote Bay sunrises. I will be in Baja..on and off...for the
remainder of the 2011 campaign. Leave Baja? Not on your life.
PLUS…I would greatly miss the ‘tasty treats’ of Baja….aaaahh…drool…
Yes, I have way too much heart-time invested in Baja to imagine the last half of my life without her. Plus, now that I have fewer house-anchors to
steal away my time and energy, I'll have time to finish an old objective..a book about a personal life and times in Baja. No, no..it's not quite
finished yet...nor is page one! But I consider it...'a work in progress'.
Piled up in Coyote Bay, I have a rooms full of photos, stories, journals, laughs, groans, events, and wierd happenings that beckon me to unpack,
review, organize, save, shredd??, and finally write about...Baja. 
So...it's that time...the work will begin Very Soon. Very, very soon.. I am eager to begin...soon, soon.
Well.... maybe Soon after ..."the next boating day on the magical Cortez"...or maybe two days...three? Yeah!  After allo, we must be realistic about all that work. One simply cannot toil day
in and day out...one needs to ...'relax'...or you get stale. Am I right?
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Opps..hmm...uh...that is, IF her majesty, Co-Pilot/self-appointed secretary/ramrod says otherwise...sigh.
It's a far, far different world these days, guys... 
My buddies say I smell better.
I will soon be back at my old Baja haunts...on land and sea... and cannot wait for that first bzzz...bzzzzzz.....bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! as the bigeye
bait is taken down, down..down.
Hey!, what are you waiting for? Someone engage the drag?...thumb the line?!...do something!.. besides smile...
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The last few weeks have been ...exciting. It’s all about being a NOMAD, right? Been to some places I could have done without, but was at some truly
wonderful other places and events that deserve a story of thier own..but that's for a another time and thread.
Now it's all about..
"Baja Here We Come..again."
Pssst...Hey MacyMan..save my chair at the poker table. See you Monday at Santispac.
Well, we need some rest before the big push manana. So hasta la vista down Baja-way, mi amigos.
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Cypress
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About that book? It't be a best seller.
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drarroyo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
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wow talk about beauty and the beast! Nice work Gramps!!!!!
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by BajaNomad]
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Pompano
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Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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Gramps? Did he just call me Gramps? Why..that young whippersnapper!
Sonny..you can call me whatever you like on the interent with impunity.
Of course if you call me that in person at kilometer 108 south of Mulege, it could get a wee bit different...
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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drarroyo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Of course if you call me that in person at kilometer 108 south of Mulege, it could get a wee bit different... |
be ok with who you are. (you did post photos!)
I say Gramps with respect (especially respect of your 'fishing' skills :bounce
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BajaGringo
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I have followed this thread for a couple of days, curious as to where it would go. The good old days of Baja? I have this nagging suspicion that many
of our Nomads who first discovered Baja 50 or 60 years ago were told by the ¨old timers¨ around back then that Baja just wasn´t what it used to be.
Same thing for those who arrived in the 70´s, 80´s and more recently. Nothing is as it used to be.
On a recent trip back to the Argentine northwest, I set aside a day to go up and find a little known, remote mountain village I had often visited when
living in the foothills of the Andes a few decades back. The village had no electricity, no phones and only a few of the hundred or so residents even
owned a vehicle as the nearest gas was over 100 km away. The little pueblo was full of creative artisans and the locally made cheese alone was worth
the long and slow drive up the winding dirt road.
The trip to me was always something very special as it was like going back in time. Imagine my dismay to discover on this last trip that this little
mountain pueblo is now littered with power poles and phone lines, satellite dishes and pool halls with almost every kid I saw listening to their iPod.
Nowhere on this planet is the same as it used to be. My guess is that the town where most of us grew up has changed dramatically as well. Fifty years
from now these will be the good old days.
What matters most (IMHO) is the attitude we face each day now with. And with that I´m lighting the fire on the BBQ and tipping my CM glass.
Make it a great weekend Nomads...
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Pompano
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The Good Ol' Days.
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. That becomes increasingly easier as one gets
older...
If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning!
I love what Will Rogers said about the good old days..."Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was."
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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mcfez
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Pompano ....
I got to say this about you.....you got a sense of humor that is sharp and witty. I enjoy your readings much. Have a good trip.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Skipjack Joe
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BajaGringo,
A few months ago I decided to use the power of the internet to see if I could find anything about the village I was born, Tivat. So I typed in Tivat.
And you know how google will add choices for any entered search that other people have used? Well, the word Tivat International Airport came up. So I
got on google maps and couldn't believe my eyes. There was the runway not 100 yards from where I and my relatives had picniced and snorkled in 69.
This was a village of no more than 1000 people that had virtually no economy and lived from summer tourism (mostly German) and what the sea provided.
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BajaGringo
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Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
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Mood: Let's have a BBQ!
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Thanks Pomp and SJ for helping to make my point. The good ol´days are today - right now, this moment in time in which we are living. Rather than
reminisce about something that once was (or wasnt), better we go out and grab today by the tail...
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGringo
I have followed this thread for a couple of days, curious as to where it would go. The good old days of Baja? I have this nagging suspicion that many
of our Nomads who first discovered Baja 50 or 60 years ago were told by the ¨old timers¨ around back then that Baja just wasn´t what it used to be.
Same thing for those who arrived in the 70´s, 80´s and more recently. Nothing is as it used to be.
On a recent trip back to the Argentine northwest, I set aside a day to go up and find a little known, remote mountain village I had often visited when
living in the foothills of the Andes a few decades back. The village had no electricity, no phones and only a few of the hundred or so residents even
owned a vehicle as the nearest gas was over 100 km away. The little pueblo was full of creative artisans and the locally made cheese alone was worth
the long and slow drive up the winding dirt road.
The trip to me was always something very special as it was like going back in time. Imagine my dismay to discover on this last trip that this little
mountain pueblo is now littered with power poles and phone lines, satellite dishes and pool halls with almost every kid I saw listening to their iPod.
Nowhere on this planet is the same as it used to be. My guess is that the town where most of us grew up has changed dramatically as well. Fifty years
from now these will be the good old days.
What matters most (IMHO) is the attitude we face each day now with. And with that I´m lighting the fire on the BBQ and tipping my CM glass.
Make it a great weekend Nomads...
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Good story Ron...
Reminds of of Bahia de los Angeles before they brought in the power lines from Guerrero Negro about 4 years ago.
It was quite romantic to have the the town go black each night when the generator was shut down before then... So many stars...
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