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Baja Bernie
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[*] posted on 5-1-2011 at 09:26 PM
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A Puzzle

Wandering along the seashore
Smelling the sea breeze
Waves loudly crashing over the rocks

A solitary hang glider
Like a raven
Riding the thermals

A motorcycle rider
Vision obscured with dust
Storming across a dry desert riverbed

A native mountain man
Eyes of a hawk seeing for miles
Surveying his domain

A tourist tied to the highway
Watching the shifting shadows
Flowing over tall mesas and dead volcanoes

Pilots high in the sky
Looking to making sense
Of the puzzle that is Baja

A lone hiker leading a burro
Hot and sweaty
Visiting isolated ranchos

Campers gathered round a fire
Comforting each other
Strange sounds in the quiet of the night

Used up old men sitting in a bar
Vision diminished by booze
Watching life pass by

People in the bays and coves
In palm covered canyons
High up in the wind and snow

Each one seeing a small piece
Of the wondrous puzzle
That is Baja

Bernie Swaim, January 2004

Have I made a case for knowing 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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[*] posted on 5-3-2011 at 05:34 PM


What are you taking?
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