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AmoPescar
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Hi Heather,
Good to see your name posting. Been so long since I last saw you guys in Gonzaga Bay. I still remember the Fish Soup you guys made and let us try.
I know your kids have always had a great relationship with Baja. Hope to run into you guys again sometime soon.
Amo Pescar / Michael Curtiss 
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dean miller
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
SDM,
You are old. Nothing wrong with that. We all get there. To get there with knowledge to share without being condescending to others is a good thing.
Most women don't like to share their age, so with that being said, I was there when I was three, my grandfather is/was older than you are now. Rejoice
in the moment and don't try to be the first one to the party.
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Thank you so much for the fine complement and sterling sage advice.
Do you have a secret method of predicting age of a person by reading a post--if so please share,
Cheers from a hill over looking the Pacific ocean in CenCal,
SDM
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FARASHA
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My parents didn't travel BAJA with me, but criss cross southern Europe in the 60ties. SO - I grew up sleeping in an old VW -bug's back seat. While my
parents slept in the tiny tent. I felt quite content, and cosy in my little BUG house. I was about 3 or 4 then. I remember playing in the sand,
watching my mom cooking on the camping stove and setting here Strawhat at fire 
I remember Lizards peeking into the tent, while dad changed his swimingtrunks.
I remember the raindrops pondering the roof of the VW.
The Sand everywhere, sunburns .........the list goes on....
I definately can not remember anything like being sick, or something unpleasant - ?? I'm sure there were such events - but I have lost them.
It prepared me for Life though, until to this day ( am 52 now), I have no problem getting along with most difficult situations, am able to cope with
whatever comes up while traveling. And I started to travel on my own at age 17. Never had a problem I couldn't find a solution.
I think going places with kids at early age is a good prep for real LIFE. As long as you keep them SAFE and tell them WHAT to take care of - as my
parents did. From the age of 4 or 5 years, there was always clear instructions for me as what to do WHEN -----
It prepared me to be independed, look after myself, and how to survive away from the usual amenities.
I still travel around on my own, sleep in the desert, do beachcombing, wade in the tidepools, and love it that way.
Feel never lost, alone - except for 2 occasions, when I was terribly Ill. Still - I found someone to help me, I could trust.
I think KIDS especially in this times - with spending too much time indoors, in front of TV, PC, etc...... restricted from roaming free - because
there are so many urban dangers, can only profit from adventures to places like Baja.
VIVA - Adventure Vacations!!!!! >f<
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Baja Bernie
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Farasha
So well said and you provided me an image of Europe that I never had before.
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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Ken Bondy
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Wow what a great thread. My kids LOVED Baja, all four of them thought they were Mexican. That had to be explained.....Here are a few old photos from
Meling Ranch:
Jesse with ranch kids collecting frogs:
Coleen with her favorite horse Chester:
Jesse before he got the hang of horseback riding:
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Heather
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Hey Amo, saludos a ti tambien! I don't get on here too much, I'm blocked from chatting and discussion boards while I'm at school. The district
doesn't want the kids spending all there time chatting instead of researching, go figure!
At home, my girls keep me busy, I think my second has been born since that trip!
We had a great time in Gonzaga with all the BBBers, haven't been back that way, since. We spend our times further South, trying to find some of the
hidden treasures in the La Paz/Los Cabos area.
Antonio's latest fish dinner, was a little one (lisa? bait fish) that he'd found half alive in Chileno bay last summer. He took it home, threw it on
the grill, and ate it! Grossed out my nieces, but he seemed to enjoy it! I think he enjoyed grossing them out as much as eating it!
Ken. I love the backwards horseback riding, did he get very far??
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Heather
Ken. I love the backwards horseback riding, did he get very far?? |
Ha! The horse knew something was wrong and refused to go backwards!!! 
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Ken Bondy
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We told Jesse (our youngest) that we found him hanging next to a big dorado at Punta Colorada. No wonder the kid thought he was Mexican......
[Edited on 3-3-2007 by Ken Bondy]
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Tomas Tierra
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Where else but Baja...
can your kid have a stuffed animal pet and a lobster head pet??
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David K
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These are great... Ken and Tomas, thanks for the morning smile!
[Edited on 3-3-2007 by David K]
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tim40
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Parents took me down to baja when I was a baby and multiple times every year from then on. My 5 kids have were taken town since they were babies and
now the oldest is ready to take hers... There are few places better for one to explore life as a youngster.
When searching for the end of your rainbow you only have until dusk....
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marla
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Wow Amo Pescar look how little my kids were then! Thanks for posting that. It seems like yesterday too. We just got back last night from Loreto and
whale watching in San Ignacio, check out the videos I just posted of our whale watch! Talk about Baja with kids....Michael is in the blue jacket,
Sandy's in the pink shirt with blue lifevest....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2wNIs7eb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKJrFGx7DA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM2drXwY4KE
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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marla
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Where but in Baja can your kids get a lesson from a goat rancher on how to milk goats (with most of the milk ending up in your eye) followed by a
lesson on how to make goat cheese, all while sitting out in the open air kitchen on the road to San Javier? My kids will definitely never forget this!
We were staying in Loreto and I read about a tour to San Javier that included a visit to a goat ranch. Well we were too cheap to pay $100 each for the
tour so we went to town and found a taxi driver whose girlfriend's parents are goat ranchers. He drove us up to San Javier, showed us all around the
old mission garden behind the mission, then on the way home we stopped at the goat ranch and the kids got their lessons from the rancher. He was
according to our taxi driver Oscar the former mayor of San Javier who was granted the beautiful little ranch by the township for his services. The
family lived in one open air room (with about 1 millon flies) and had a cinderblock room in back I guess for cold nights. They were so nice to the
kids and Oscar chased some chicks around the farmyard for 20 minutes trying to catch them so Sandy could pet them. I'm sure the first of many men who
will do her bidding. The milk incidentally from their milking lesson went to the dog since it was no longer good for human consumption.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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