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paranewbi
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Really been holding back on responding to this....
To many years in Mex to give a standard up or down vote.
At 15 I was hitchhiking up and down the California coast with backpack and my hand made surfboard, loaf of bread and peanut butter, gone for a week at
a time. Sometimes mis a little school, usually never took the time to tell my mom although she would always ask where I was when I got back.
On her death bed she pulled me close to her and told me I was her best child and she always trusted me, always. The best part was ludicrous as any one
was better to my mom than my brothers! The trust part is what I treasured most and finally understood why she never freaked out in my quest to surf.
Even when I would go to the Reagen wars in Central and surf during the 70's.
What it comes down to Mom...do YOU trust your son? No matter where he is, anything can happen at anytime with anyone he is with or not. Do you trusts
him to have good judgment? Don't look at him, look at yourself, if you need to look at him...you dont trust him.
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micah202
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| Quote: | Originally posted by paranewbi
Really been holding back on responding to this....
To many years in Mex to give a standard up or down vote.
At 15 I was hitchhiking up and down the California coast with backpack and my hand made surfboard, loaf of bread and peanut butter, gone for a week at
a time. Sometimes mis a little school, usually never took the time to tell my mom although she would always ask where I was when I got back.
On her death bed she pulled me close to her and told me I was her best child and she always trusted me, always. The best part was ludicrous as any one
was better to my mom than my brothers! The trust part is what I treasured most and finally understood why she never freaked out in my quest to surf.
Even when I would go to the Reagen wars in Central and surf during the 70's.
What it comes down to Mom...do YOU trust your son? No matter where he is, anything can happen at anytime with anyone he is with or not. Do you trusts
him to have good judgment? Don't look at him, look at yourself, if you need to look at him...you dont trust him. |
.......VERY well said!!!!!
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DavidE
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Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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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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Down the Baja peninsula at age 17, or the Monterey Pops Festival at age 20? The MPF was by far the most hazardous. Friends told me I had a great time.
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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David K
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Posts: 65106
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Been going to Baja since I was 7... When I turned 16 and got a drivers license, I made my first trip without my parents... Been going ever since
whenever I can... Close to 50 years since that first trip (to Gonzaga Bay, 1965)...
NEVER had been the victim of a crime by 'banditos' or drug dealers or anyone except maybe a Pemex station or two with rigged pumps!
I get a warm and happy feeling anytime we cross the border going south... and I feel a bit sad, and mentally plan the next trip, when I am in line to
come back north across the border.
If I could live in Baja, I would... and am hoping I can be there more, perhaps to help travelers, provide tours, operate a campground with a B&B,
who knows?
If Mexico (or just Baja) was a scary, evil place, then explain how my feelings are what they are...??? I do feel a 'soul connection' when I go to
missions or walk on the Camino Real... specially at Mission Santa Maria. That may explain why I have gone there 4 times over a road that is such a
challenge and each time has caused body damage?
VIVA BAJA!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
I do feel a 'soul connection' when I go to missions or walk on the Camino Real... |
Walking here and there? I think that's a sole connection. 
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Right! 
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
What to do!?!?!
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Learn.
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David K
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Posts: 65106
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Frank, you chose Mexico! The lesser of two evils perhaps? Heaven to me!!
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DavidE
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Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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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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Or lock yourself in a giant vault, safe from skin cancer, eat vegan, read heath books, spend hours on an exercise machine, and die of boredom.
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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Skipjack Joe
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Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Speaking of cholla, I bet DavidE remembers the time Neal Johns pulled one out of him!?
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I had one go through the jeans into the knee cap. Can't remember the circumstances any more.
I promptly pulled it out and figured that was the end of it. Wrong. That area itched for over 5 years! There must've been something nasty in those
spines. After accepting that it was going to remain for life the itching slowly went away.
Stepping on a stingray was much worse, though.
Oh, and ramming the treble hook through the thumb was no fun either. They asked if I wanted my picture taken with the hook in me. "Go on. Take it out
before I throw up".
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David K
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Posts: 65106
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Sound terrible Igor!
I remember by dad coming home from a sportfishing (tuna?) trip in the early 60's and had a hook through his nose (from a wild cast of another
fisherman)!
I once fell on a barrel cactus when I was maybe 11, that punctured up my leg. The toxin causes pain and itching... the doctor told my mom to apply
steaming hot wet cloth to draw out the toxins... Just like with a stingray.
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Neal Johns
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Registered: 10-31-2002
Location: Lytle Creek, CA
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Who is that old guy removing the cholla?
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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EnsenadaDr
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Registered: 9-12-2011
Location: Baja California
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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Give moms a break!!
My son is 25 and lives in Australia. We stay connected on Skype, and he is online 24 hours a day due to his work. We chat every few days and if I
don't hear from him I worry...I am independent but I do worry about my son, especially being so far away. If you don't have kids, you will never know
the feeling...but they are still our little boys and girls. | Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNomad
From my email inbox... what's your perspective for this mom?:
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Subj: Safety of trip to Villa Bahia in Baha California?
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:42 PM
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: bajanomad
Hi,
My son's college sports team is planning to charter a bus and drive from the L.A. area down to the hotel Villa Bahia in Baja California during their
spring vacation. http://www.villabahia.com/
I'm trying to ascertain whether the drive there and back itself is safe and then, of course, whether staying at that particular hotel would be safe.
I'm going to get into your website and see if I register and then "chat", but I'm afraid that I'm somewhat of an internet marooon when it comes to
using forums like yours.
If you don't see my question, could you possibly post the question for me (without using my real name!  ) or answer me directly?
Thanks very much,
[Edited on 1-27-2012 by BajaNomad] |
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freediverbrian
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When I was 14 in 1972 I was hitching plane rides to loreto staying with locals for the summer . Before the road was finished, no one in town , no
phones, would give people going Thur town my parents phone number ask them to call when they got to the states and tell my mom and dad I was fine.
Would I let my son do the same thing today , NO, different time , sad but true
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Retireded
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Registered: 10-4-2012
Location: El Sauzal
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Mood: Wishin' I was Fishin', Oh, I am!
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We just got back to El Sauzal last night from 3 nights camped in a palapa on the beach just about a mile north of BOLA. The most dangerous thing I
saw while there was the sun. I left my shirt off for a few hours of fishing and am now redder than a sunburned indian.
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tripledigitken
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No surprize that among most Nomads the mother's worry will fall on deaf ears.
The State Dept still has a warning for travel in Mexico, and for many that will be enough to take a pass. I can understand their point of view.
I do have to wonder if that warning will ever go away....................
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
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