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David K
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They were time limited guides. The first was of the Baja highway before constrution was completed (July, '73). Pavement ended near El Progreso and
started in sections near Punta Prieta, solid pavement began near Villa Jesus Maria. Long out of print, sorry!
Bernie has four books on his site you can order for your lobby: http://www.caballeropublishing.com
Have a copy of the Baja Almanac on hand... get one from Kim or at http://www.baja-almanac.com
Have a look at the Baja author's web sites listed in my site. Order any books direct from them.
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Mission Santa Maria de Los Angeles
Hi David, do you (or other members) know what year Earl Stanley Gardner made his trip to the mission? I don't have the book and I can't seem to find
info on the web. 35 years ago I flew over the mission with a guy who said he visited the place more than a year before Gardner "discovered" it. He
said it was 11 years before our flight/fishing trip to what is now Los Barriles. I think my trip was in 1969 but I'm not real sure. What I do
remember is our hosts, the Verdugo family, remembered the pilot, Jim Patterson, remembered taking him up there from Gonzaga.
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David K
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Now, you can see aerial photos of the trip from Alfonsina'a airstrip to the Mision Santa Maria valley in part 2 of BajaMur's web site report: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/cove/6849/santamaria1.ht...
This was the same weekend when we rode to the mission from Santa Ynez. Afterward, we went to Gonzaga and stayed at Doug Bowles place ('Dooglas'). That
ride over the canyon and mission was in Doug's Cessna 206.
As for Erle Stanley Gardner, he never claimed to have discoverd Sant Maria as it was never lost. Arthur North stayed a few days there during his
expedition in 1905-06 ('Camp and Camino in Lower California'). There are photos at the mission in Erle's 1961 'Hovering Over Baja' pg. 172 and I have
some from Choral Pepper that shows some of Erle's dune buggies at the mission in the early Sixties.
Erle's expeditions did 'discover' that the residents of San Francisco de la Sierra claimed the stone walls there are the remains of Mision Dolores de
Norte (a lost mission) It always was shown on maps at the ruins of the Visita de San Pablo some 12 miles northwest and down the canyon from San
Francisco (note: Dr. Jackson's research shows that Dolores del Norte existed only on paper and the name was changed to Santa Gertrudis when it was
finally established, further north... see Jackson's paper on http://TimsBaja.com ). The ruins at San Francisco were a visiting station, and perhaps an early consideration for the next mission north of San
Ignacio. None-the-less, the people of the tiny mountain village believed that they lived at Dolores' site.
Gardner's group did find ruins south of L.A. Bay in 1966 that Choral Pepper believed could be the proposed mission site of Santa Maria Magdalena. See
http://community-2.webtv.net/baja4me/1757
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David K
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Leaving Santa Maria, up the Widowmaker!
Here I am in the mighty Toyota... ChicagoRoss gave me directions from the top for tire placement because at such a steep pitch one cannot see the
ground you are trying to drive over. Halfway up I bumped into a one foot tall step and had to park and make a ramp with rocks... awesome!
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