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DENNIS
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Ahhh yes........A field of chivalry it was.
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DENNIS
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Again, another star is born.
We're posting all over each other. G'nite.
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amir
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A most excellent bedtime story.
Thank you all for your thoughtfullness, poetry, humor and the rest...
Viva Baja!
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Hook
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My memories of Hussong's are of strong diesel smells mixed with the Pinesol.
Anybody tried the Tres Generaciones Blanco.............man, that stuff is good!
For a blanco, of course.............
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DENNIS
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Diesel? That's one of my primary aromas of Mexico. Forty years ago, standing downtown Mazatlán and the air was thick with diesel exhaust and sweet
smoke from Delicados cigarettes. It was wonderful.
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Paulina
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I know someone who lives in Baja who uses diesel to wash his patio floors. It repels the bugs and gives the floor a nice shine.
I haven't been inside Hussong's in years. Does it still have that same smell?
P<*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Paula
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That is a great question you started this thread with, Dennis. Paulina had a beautiful reply, and I'm finding it hard to come up with an answer. The
less materialistic lifestyle is a big part. And there is some quality about so many of the people I've met that I just can't seem to define.
Whatever it is I might like to be more that way myself. And there are colors, the soft reds and greens of the mountains, and that amazing blue over
white sand in the sea. Smells-- mesquite, and the fresh smell of laundry washed here and hung on the line. Maybe not the sewage stench on Juarez
street. The way that homes and towns are so charmingly disorganized. The sound of Norteño from a passing car. And the fact that it never snows in
Loreto-- never!
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
I know someone who lives in Baja who uses diesel to wash his patio floors. It repels the bugs and gives the floor a nice shine.
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Paulina,
That's an old trick. However, it's not straight diesel as far as I remember, but about a quart to a small pail ( 3 gallons ? ) of water. It does make
the floor shine and is not slippery.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
I haven't been inside Hussong's in years. Does it still have that same smell?
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It's imbedded in your memory banks. It will never change although they do repaint occasionally.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
And the fact that it never snows in Loreto-- never! |
Maybe the Spirit of Baja is as much in what we leave behind. For sure, it is a different world.
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Mexitron
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Beyond the incredible natural beauty, Baja's spirit for me is untamed freedom and a wonderful slowing down of time, each day there becoming more like
molasses on a frozen sidewalk until it almost stands still. Why its like that I'm not sure--its not just Mexican manana. I suspect its the energy of
the place--the long waits between rains, the patience and resourcefulness of the plants and animals to exist in that terrain. Wildflowers burst out
after a thunderstorm and quickly go to seed, perhaps having to wait another five years to come to life again. The Boojum and Cardon store their water
for the long wait, patiently meting out their stores during the drought; after a prolonged spell I imagine they are not fully awake anymore but in
some kind of dreamtime; the Elephant Tree though, merely drops its leaves and goes back into a deep sleep, back to the source, to be an anchor of
non-time for us all too engaged travellers.
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amir
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Cardon and Pila - Punta Lobos Road - Todos Santos.
Picture taken in August of this year, before Henrieta. 
The desert here is still green from this chubasquito. 
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Skipjack Joe
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How it started
It was 1978. We were camping on the shores of Puerto Escondido. Every evening I would light the coleman lantern and row out in the darkness to the
'waiting room'. There we sat in the stillness with the light illuminating the dark water below. We were fishing for mackerel, but that didn't matter.
I just remember the stillness. The hissing from the lantern. And the occasional bird song from the mangroves from the shoreline nearby. Ocassionally I
would look up and see the myriad of stars stretching from one side to the other. I knew happiness then. I had found it. And I've been coming back ever
since.
[Edited on 11-4-2007 by Skipjack Joe]
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baitcast
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P<*o)))><
(That is a astonished fish)
I always wondered what that was.
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BigWooo
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Baja Spirit is...
Life…walking on the beach looking for fish in the faces of the waves, finding shells; discovering the biggest lobster molting you’ve ever seen,
looking a what’s trapped in the tide pools. There’s shorebirds, whales, dolphins, butterflies, lizards, snakes, and bugs you don’t see anywhere else.
Silence.
Thunderstorms
The people...more alive, happier, and friendlier.
It's surfing without having to fend off a pack of 50 or 60 other surfers just to get one or two waves(Although crowds are getting more and more
difficult to escape in Baja too, unfortunately).
This has all been lost where I live in Southern California.
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comitan
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I dunno, its something I lost a long time ago. I do get it back when I'm showing a newbie around. 
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Bajafun777
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Could it be the loss of that tightness in your chest lifting when that ocean smell overtakes your senses on your arrival to the Baja Beach? Added to
that the different cold ones popping one after another as you B.S. and B.S. some more with friends. Ah-------------a sense of "Easy on the Easy!!!"
Later--------------------------------- bajafun777
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bajadock
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The spirit can be found in mexicanas. No mas gringas por me.
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