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comitan
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Posts: 4177
Registered: 3-27-2004
Location: La Paz
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In La Paz you have to have a permit to have a tope, and they have to meet certain spec's. Comitan has many but after the grading this week I think we
will have none.
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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Paula
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Posts: 2219
Registered: 1-5-2006
Location: Loreto
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Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Building a Tope is in the bill of rights? |
It should be!! We live mid-block on a one block section of dirt street. Several cars a day seem to pass our house at over 40, oblivious to kids,
dogs, and pedestrians. I'm thinking about asking the army guys for some ofthat wicked braided plastic rope.
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bajaguy
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9247
Registered: 9-16-2003
Location: Carson City, NV/Ensenada - Baja Country Club
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Mood: must be 5 O'clock somewhere in Baja
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Paula.....1 1/2 inch roofing nails really work well
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Paula
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Posts: 2219
Registered: 1-5-2006
Location: Loreto
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Good tip Bajaguy, but they might get us slowpokes too.
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DENNIS
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Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
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Years back when I lived in Ensenada, nobody would slow down around our neighborhood so, I made stop signs just like the real ones. I put them up
here and there and a few are still standing after fifteen years. It slowed down the traffic and every now and then, somebody would actually stop
but, that's a lot to ask for anywhere in Mexico,
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bajaguy
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9247
Registered: 9-16-2003
Location: Carson City, NV/Ensenada - Baja Country Club
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Mood: must be 5 O'clock somewhere in Baja
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Paula.....sweep em up after a few hours.....you can recycle them
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bajamigo
Super Nomad
Posts: 1218
Registered: 6-17-2006
Location: Punta Banda, BC
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Mood: hubimos llegado
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Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Years back when I lived in Ensenada, nobody would slow down around our neighborhood so, I made stop signs just like the real ones. I put them up
here and there and a few are still standing after fifteen years. It slowed down the traffic and every now and then, somebody would actually stop
but, that's a lot to ask for anywhere in Mexico, |
I thought everybody in Baja observed Stop signs. It's only the traffic lights that they ignore. Seriously.
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DENNIS
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Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
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That's right. In Mexico, "Stop" means, "Stop looking at signs like this."
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vandenberg
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Posts: 5118
Registered: 6-21-2005
Location: Nopolo
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After living here for many years and driving the Mexican way, it's kind of fun to drive around with some American or European visitors and scare the
living daylights out of them buzzing through stop signs.
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rpleger
Super Nomad
Posts: 1087
Registered: 3-12-2005
Location: H. Mulegé, BCS
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Mood: Was good.
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Right on Marv....
Patsy and I went to k51 to watch the race, Had a great time....
Trip home was kind of harry with all the wanabes driving the chase trucks zooming down the interstate #1.
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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Bob and Susan
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8813
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Mulege BCS on the BAY
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yes ALOT of people are down here this week...
the trucks just "keep on trucking"
(i'm sooo funny this morning)
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Marie-Rose
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Posts: 894
Registered: 10-2-2003
Location: Victoria, B.C. and Todos Santos
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Quote: | Originally posted by Hose A
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A man told me it did not really mean stop it was just a suggestion.
That is
one of my favorite Mexican "quotes". Gotta love it!!
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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CaboRon
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3401
Registered: 3-24-2007
Location: The Valley of the Moon
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Mood: Peacefull
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Quote: | Originally posted by bajamigo
Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Years back when I lived in Ensenada, nobody would slow down around our neighborhood so, I made stop signs just like the real ones. I put them up
here and there and a few are still standing after fifteen years. It slowed down the traffic and every now and then, somebody would actually stop
but, that's a lot to ask for anywhere in Mexico, |
I thought everybody in Baja observed Stop signs. It's only the traffic lights that they ignore. Seriously. |
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toneart
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4901
Registered: 7-23-2006
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Mood: Skeptical
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Regarding the suggestion of roofing nails: they could be too effective. You may end up with unwanted guests at dinnertime who are out of cold cerveza.
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Cypress
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7641
Registered: 3-12-2006
Location: on the bayou
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Mood: undecided
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Regarding spectator sports, racing, any and all ball games etc., would just as soon watch cartoons with the sound off.
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