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Pompano
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Another Good Friday in Baja.
..Same question...different year.
Perhaps some different input?
The following are some facts I personally did not know, but am glad I researched.
Many people in different countries celebrate the anniversary of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and death on the Friday before Easter Sunday. This is an
observance that involves people fasting and praying.
Many church services are held in the afternoon, usually around noon or midday to 3pm, to remember the hours when Jesus hung on the cross.
Many churches also observe the day by re-enacting the procession of the cross as in the ritual of the Stations of the Cross, which depicts the final
hours of Jesus’ life. Processions are held in many countries such as India, Italy, Mata, the Philippines, and Spain.
Kites that are often handmade are flown in Bermuda on Good Friday to symbolize the cross that Jesus died on, as well as his ascension into heaven.
This custom dates back to the 19th century.
Churches in countries, such as Belgium and Mexico, are draped in black on Good Friday in memory of Jesus’ suffering on the cross.
The day is solemn and a general air of sadness is felt in many towns and villages. Many Christians in Poland fast on dry bread and roasted potatoes.
Egg decorating is also part of the Easter preparations in Poland and many other countries.
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[Edited on 4-6-2012 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Fernweh
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Happy Good Friday, Happy Easter Holiday!
I'm spending this weekend to work on my Adventurewagen, to ready it for the next upcoming Baja trip.
Today, I did install this nifty Top Shelf, a supported net for the softer things in life.
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willardguy
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cut day in augusta
[Edited on 4-6-2012 by willardguy]
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durrelllrobert
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The End is Near
It appears that a lot of Nomads have given up posting for Lent (only 9 NEW posts today vs 171.67 average). Things should improve after Easter.
Bob Durrell
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Martyman
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Busy preparing for Tequila Sunrise Services.
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coconaco
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Does anyone know if I will be charged double tonight?
THE MINNOW must be lost!!!!!
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Cypress
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coconaco, It all depends? Bless me father for I have sinned.......
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Pompano
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I have looked over the comments and replies and realize a trip to Ana's or the Jungle will greatly help to decode those messages.
Salud!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I'm headin' down to Our Lady Of Sharkey's for a spiritual libation....or two. |
So you just gave Sharkey's up for Lent? I heard a nasty rumor you had knocked up the c-cktail waitress and had to wait to go back until she left town
in shame. 
Rosarito is busy. Great to see. Lot's of local Mexican families in Rosarito centro Norte flying tarps, playing with their kids and grilling food.
70 degrees with a 5mph on-shore breeze- so it's not warm and most every one is wrapped in something to say warm. We have a couple of nice big
families camped out in front for the weekend. Elotes carts, churros carts, candy carts, cotton candy, horse rentals- all right here. This is why we
protect the beach and this is who we do it for. The real people. Happy Easter all.
\"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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tiotomasbcs
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I'm on a Hellbound Train! ( Savoy Brown) You Cannot Petition the Lord with Prayer!  Can you give me Sanctuary. A place to Hide? ( Soft Parade) Just some of the music I'm listening to on Deep Tracks--Surius.
Seriously!  Tio
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willardguy
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not necessarily stoned, but beautiful?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I'm headin' down to Our Lady Of Sharkey's for a spiritual libation....or two. |
So you just gave Sharkey's up for Lent? |
That was a couple of years back, Wooosh. Still on the Banned list. 
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Counted (91) cars, and (54) trucks westbound between Guerrero Negro and Vizcaino @ 11:30 - 12:30 Looked like I-5. Lots and lots of freshly discarded
Tecate botes. Can't say how many were eastbound, but several perhaps 8+ passed me and I was doing 70.
Found a BanComer ATM next to the gasolinera on the left side going into town. Machine display had a cardboard sign taped across it with "FUERA de
SERVICIO". Mexican lady passerby laughed and said the locals do that on holidays to keep the machine from being cleaned out. It functioned perfectly.
Very little is open on Viernes Santo. G.N. and Vizcaino looked like ghost towns. Malarrimo restaurant had only Mexican guests. La Ballena marcado
looked like army ants had marched through an hour before.
I try and remember regardless of fact or fiction about other things a poor soul, by all accounts one superb human being was hung from a cross this
date for trying to express his beliefs. Even the Hindus acknowledge his wanderings and charisma. His life and his teachings seems to be vastly
different from what organized religion pontificates today. For as long as I can remember if I could travel back in time he is the one person whom I
would wish to meet. Funny -- I am not "religious"; I guess I respect my image of him more than I do of most other "leaders" I have read about.
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woody with a view
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DavidE, i'm with you, but....
Dear god, hope you get the letter and...
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving in the street
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from god
I can't believe in you
Dear god, sorry to disturb you but...
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about god
I can't believe in you
Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!
Dear god don't know if you noticed but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you
Dear god
I can't believe in
I don't believe
I won't believe in heaven or hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world 'round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'll perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve
If there's one thing I don't believe in
It's you
Dear god 
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Ateo
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Good Friday? I just got back from a Richard Dawkins conference about our secular society....
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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God, made us in his image. I also believe that he decided "If they're not smart enough to figure things out for themselves, then screw 'em, I'll start
over yet again. Sooner or later I'll get it right".
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bufeo
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Well, I was born a WASP in the heart of the Bible Belt. Sometime around my 12th birthday, give or take a couple of years, I began to change the upper
case P to lower case p, and finally dropped the letter entirely. I couldn't do anything about the WAS part.
After I retired, though, I joined the Church of the Latter Day Fly-tiers, so I'll probably spend a bit of time over this weekend tying a few midge
patterns in anticipation of attracting some hungry trout later this spring.
During the fall as part of my decision to take the ecumenical approach to an individual's religious preference, I enjoy the congregations of upland
game birds and flocks of water fowl and join the Disciples of the Side-by-side Bangers. So, after I have a few flies tied, I might re-load a few
20-bore shells and get a head start for fall.
In any case, we avoid the highways and byways on this weekend and any forum threads that involve religion, politics, or tire preferences.
Allen R
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Bajatripper
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This is THE BIG WEEKEND for Mexicans to go camping here in La Paz. It can often be hard to find stuff related to that type of an activity during these
days since they've all been bought by locals going to the beach.
La Paz will seem almost deserted this weekend since so many people are outside of the city. It's a good time for thieves--we had the "honor" of
helping catch one last night as a couple of people were stealing the wiring of the building behind our place at about 2 a.m.
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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woody with a view
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it is Resurrection Weekend
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[Edited on 4-8-2012 by woody with a view]
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Sallysouth
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My daughter is still alive and my best friend died two days ago.I'm so not sure of a God.
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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