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motoged
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More....More !!!!
Don't believe everything you think....
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
A natural playground.
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I'll bet the rattlers like it.
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tripledigitken
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It is always a highlight of our trips to Baja to spend a little time in Catavina. Thanks for the post.
Love the Blue Palms!
Taken at Rancho Santa Ynez
[Edited on 11-30-2009 by tripledigitken]
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DENNIS
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OK Nomads...Sing along with Roger as he makes his way home.
The words are above and I hope this music links:
http://www.qsl.net/n7jy/images/wanderer.mid
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toneart
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Dennis,
The music link worked! Only thing is...no words. It is just you getting a chance to play your drums with the accordion-playing, Un Peso, in Catavina.
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DENNIS
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Here ya go, Tony. I posted them way up on this thread.
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The Happy Wanderer
I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.
I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
"Come! Join my happy song!"
I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev'ry green wood tree.
High overhead, the skylarks wing,
They never rest at home
But just like me, they love to sing,
As o'er the world we roam.
Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
Oh, may I always laugh and sing,
Beneath God's clear blue sky!
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Bajahowodd
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Roger- Your travel posts are outta sight. Always look forward to them. You reminded me of that pink motel. It lends a whole new meaning to the term
"basic". It's my understanding that it is run by the daughter of the folks that run Rancho Santa Ynes. And the only time it ever gets any action is
during whale season, when unwitting travelers, not driving self-contained equipment drive up to the Desert Inn late in the day without a reservation,
only to learn that the whale tour operators had reserved most, if not all the rooms there.
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24baja
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My dear Sir Pompano, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking me on a very lovely journey. It is cold here in Grants Pass, foggy and icy,
just looking at that stretch of road has warmed my heart and soul. Thank you for sharing your travels. Connie
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toneart
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Roger,
Again...great photos! I have seen the beggar, Un Peso, for the last couple of years..around eight trips through Catavina. I usually give him a few
pesos but never asked him to relate his story(s). Glad you could fill us in. Those vados, and the boulder fields are old friends too.
Thank you.
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Ken Bondy
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Roger, can't tell you how much I have enjoyed your posts, both your commentary and your magnificent photos. Catavina is a favorite place, very unique
with the rock gardens and cirio. In all of my flying trips I never knew it existed (even though I landed a few times at Rancho Santa Ynez).
Discovered it when we started driving about eight years ago. Thanks again, ++Ken++
carpe diem!
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Paulina
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Thank you Pompano, I really look forward to your posts. Thank you for taking the extra time on your journey
that it must take to take all the photos, then put a post together for our entertainment once you get home.
If I may, I'd like to add a little bit of what I have on Gottapeso.
"My name is Andy Hurr, but that's not really my name."
We took a video of him in Aug. but I can't get the video to sinc with the sound when I put it on my computer. Here are some notes I took on our way
south. I took the video on our way back north when we gave him a small yellowtail. He didn't know what it was but was going to cook it in butter on
his one frying pan.
"My name is Andy Hurr, but that's not my real name. I is the baby who stared in Tarzan. Jane was my real mom. I think I came from Hollywood and Vine
but I can't remember cause I was just a baby."
He's waiting for his trust, which is in Switzerland but he "can't have it here otherwise it will get spent."
The house in the movie Scarface is his real house. He has a house in Brazil.
He either wrote most of The Beatles songs, or gave John Lennon the ideas.
"I wrote most of Elvis' songs. Elvis didn't want to make the movie Blue Hawaii because he didn't know how to surf, so I took Marilyn Monroe to Hawaii
so she could teach Elvis to surf."
He invented pink champagne for Marilyn.
He invented the steam iron for Marilyn because she hated ironing.
He doesn't collect aluminum cans because, " I had 4 cans once and the can guy never came around."
He invented the crockpot, the rotisery oven, pipes under concrete to melt snow and ice, navagation systems, the Hybred motor, drew the designs for the
motorized lawn mower, Invented the name "Catapillar" for the heavy equipment company at the age of 8 when lying on his back in a park with a girl
watching a catapillar crawl by.
That's all I had jotted down in my journal. He has always answered to the name Andy when we greet him. We'll check in on him again come December.
P<*)))>{
[Edited on 1-12-2009 by Paulina]
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Skipjack Joe
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Sounds like Forrest Gump.
Sh*t, he even looks like Forrest.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
| Quote: | Originally posted by fixtrauma
It took a lot of effort to to post it and I enjoyed it. We will watch for the "Beggar of Catavina" when we drive through if a few
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He could probably use some warm clothes if you have some to spare. |
Thanks for the heads up k-rico. We will be ready.
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Mexicorn
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What no Sizler?
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vgabndo
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Gottapeso...
I've heard some of those stories and more. He invented the Frisbie. The Beatles and Marilyn are frequent threads in his version of reality.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Diver
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He looks a bit older but this sounds like a guy that we met at Los Equipales in Mulege about 6-7years ago.
He bought us a drink and we bought him 2.
I have heard that he stiffed the owner of Los Equipales for some bad checks; from his trust.
At the time, he was Johnny Weismuller's son, a hollywood producer and "they" were after him.
He lived in a small rental on the south side of the river.
Maybe Pompano knows if it's the same guy ?
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Mexicorn
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Maybe he's the guy from the Dos Equis comercials you know the guy who blood smells like cologne. The most interesting man in the world.
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Paulina
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vgabundo,
He was quite a bit heavier in your photo. That must have been taken quite a few years ago?
P<*)))>{
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BajaNuts
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I can't figure out how to post them together, but it looks like the same baseball cap in Pompano's and Paulina's photos, the cap is different but
the person looks the same in vgbndo's pic.
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fishbuck
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
vgabundo,
He was quite a bit heavier in your photo. That must have been taken quite a few years ago?
P<*)))>{ |
Ya, that's the Gottapeso I know. If those other photos are him he ain't looking to good.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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