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sancho
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Tijuana to San Lucas, to Puerto Vallarta was my route in those days. Nine dollars for a cabina**
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David E, you're getting me all teary and nostalgic,
'87 put a Toyota truck, camper shell on the Cabo/
PV ferry, cabin for 2, total $11 US, Barra was my
first encounter with the Palapa/Banana/Mango
Mex coast. That short sandspit with sand floor
restaurants, a couple bars of sorts, pure bliss
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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 did they party hearty. A full mariachi band used to go over and back sometimes during high season. One accordion player said he made more in tips
on one trip than he did the remainder of the winter. The booze flowed freely and so did the pesos for music. The rule then was to pay more for
c-cktails than for a cabina.
The "sand spit". Free camping. Wander down to ave Legazspi and get fooded up and pickled for under four dollars. Remember the trips to Melaque on the
blue and white Ford school bus for 12 cents? The full length of the peninsula twice and then Mex 200, with dirt with occasional asphalt buttes. I
remember a kid standing in the road near Santiago with a huge wadded up bundle of newspaper. Inside was a few kilos of scarlet pitahaya. ¿Four pesos,
señor?" I gave him a ten peso banknote.
Speaking of Miller, I did see him many times around the boat docks and in the little restaurant bars along the lagoon in Barra de Navidad. Also in
Beer Bobs book exchange. Never occurred to me who or what he was then. What a shame. I knew he appeared to be all wrapped up in fishing. Don't
remember seeing Shirley. She did say to me that she "absolutely remembered my pickup and utility trailer parked out on the spit" when she was in her
office astride the insurance outfit and we chatted.
EDIT
I do remember buying a large autographed book from Shirley with a title like "The Mexico West Book". Tom & Shirley both had put a short note
inside. Generic, "que le vaya bien" message. The book saw one too many hurricanes and I believe Gilberto on the Yucatan peninsula finally finished it
off.
[Edited on 8-1-2012 by DavidE]
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BajaAnthro
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Hey David K,
Wow, Oceanside! Small world. I have spent a lot of time in good old O'side, and stop by there to visit family and friends whenever I am back in
socal. Do you know the Hill Street Cafe? I used to work there on and off for a few years. The owner is one of my really good friends.
I graduated Carlsbad High in 1993. I lived there from 1986 onward, but have been away for several years now because of graduate school.
"Yes, Tom Miller wrote about their place on Cabo Pulmo, in the 1970's and maybe after a bit..."
Did he write about Pulmo in WON or somewhere else? Do you know if their back issues are still available somewhere? I'd be really interested to see
what he wrote about Pulmo and the East Cape in those days.
"Do a search on 'Chopy', El Surfo Loco (ESL) who was the legal owner of land at Cabo Pulmo..."
I will look into Chopy ESL. Sounds like a character. You also answered one of the questions I had about some of the early residents--how they
'owned' land before the changes to the Constitution that took place in the early 1990s. I have heard that a lot of people owned land through
proxies...sounds like this may have been the case with Miller in Pulmo.
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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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Sponsors are still the rule rather than the exception. Obtaining a fideicomiso is not an inexpensive process nor is it dirt cheap on a yearly basis.
My casita in Michoacán is being built with my grand kids as title holders.
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