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BajaWarrior
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Registered: 9-27-2006
Location: Mission Bay, San Diego. Playa Hermosa, San Felipe.
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1975?
Surfing in Baja of course (K55) on a ditch day with the older guys from my neighborhood in Mission Bay San Diego... Where else?
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Woooosh
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Location: Rosarito Beach
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By 1975 I had escaped Connecticut and was going to college and teaching skiing in Colorado.
[Edited on 10-19-2011 by Woooosh]
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Skipjack Joe
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Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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Working as a marine biologist for USC. Hauling up bottom critters from 2000' below with waves crashing over the stern. Mostly calm days, though.
Laying on the bow watching porpoises below.
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msawin
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Registered: 8-29-2003
Location: Grass Valley,Ca / Tripui
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Graduated from high school.
Made my first trip to Baja with
some friends I met in the motocross arena in 1977. Ensenada. Will never forget crossing the boarder north bound and had to stop to
empty the street cart clambs I ate.
1989 made my first trip to loerto with great friends and some how on that trip drove down to Tripui... Could never forget it.
Got our place down there in 2000... could not be better...
martin-o
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Bob H
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Registered: 8-19-2003
Location: San Diego
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I was living in Miami, Florida and working for the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Regional Office.
Later, moved to San Diego in 1984 and then shortly thereafter, discovered Baja!
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Hook
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Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I was a bartender in San Juan Capistrano. Opened the Capistrano Depot, Cinco De Mayo, 1975. |
Dennis, do you remember the Mexican restaurant that was about diagonal to the Depot at that time. Believe it was called Mexico Lindo? It bordered the
street that went into the Los Rios District.
Or, what about the Mexican restaurant named Henry's that was along Coast Hwy, right across from Hole-in-the-Fence beach? It eventually became the
first Olamendi's restaurant. Man, they had great food.
I spent a lot of the early 70s in those two places.
Where did you live? In town? DP?
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redmesa
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Posts: 580
Registered: 3-12-2008
Location: Van Isle and Bahia Asuncion
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Immigrating to Canada after living my early life on the Texas gulf coast
Getting married to a California/Canadian
Moving to Kitimat (northern BC) to run a science program at a school
My husband has been dreaming of Baja most of his life. I now share that dream as a reality.
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krafty
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Registered: 8-23-2010
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Flight attendant out of JFK for Capitol Int.l. Airways, living on Long Island
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BajaBruno
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Location: Back in CA
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There are some great memories here from you veteran Nomads.
In '75 I was oceans away from here, getting ready to be discharged from the Air Force.
I didn't really discover Baja until ten years later when a roguish friend talked me into driving solo down Baja during my ten day vacation from work.
I made it to BOLA and Bahia Conception, but no further. I fell in love with more than the landscape.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Lots of Baja in 1975...
Baja was BIG in my life that year as I was 17-18 years old in '75.
Easter Vacation was a repeat of the big Baja loop trip/ tour of the previous year, in my dune buggy. This time, 2 other vehicles followed me. We went
down the Pacific side to Mision San Fernando, El Marmol, Calamajue, and up the gulf to Alfonsina's, Nuevo Mazatlan and back home.
A lot of the main mission church was still standing in '75:
On the old road out of El Marmol, near La Virgen:
At the turquoise mine in La Turquesa Canyon (south of Gonzaga Bay):
Mike Clancy was my travel partner this trip.
That June, I went to the SCORE Baja Internacional (500) and watched at Valle de Trinidad. Mickey Thompson was racing his rear engined Chevy LUV with
son Danny. They stopped right in front of me to try and make repairs.
In August I went to the (Baja Racing Association) Baja 300 at Santo Tomas and watched Ivan Stewart win in a buggy:
One racer that broke down, borrowed a horse from a ranch and rode back to Santo Tomas with his helmet and fire suit on!:
I also went to the first SCORE Baja 1000 that November. We watched from Valle de Trinidad and again at the Sulfur Mine. It was the first 1000 to use
the loop format starting and finishing in Ensenada (Punta Prieta was near the southernmost point in the course, except for classes 6, 7, & 11. It
was believed the route along the Seven Sisters was too tough with deep silt for them, so they ran Hwy. 1 from Guayaquil to El Crucero/Calamajue rd.).
It was weird to see the first racers arriving at the Sulfur Mine that evening to be Class 7 mini trucks! (I hadn't heard of the special short coarse
for them).
Here's Parnelli Jones pitting his new Blazer racer at Trinidad:
Thanks to dad, I had a new Jeep to do my Baja travels in. Here it is on the road to San Felipe from Diablo Dry Lake:
[Edited on 10-19-2011 by David K]
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baitcast
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Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: kingman AZ.
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I was in my fifteenth year working for Robertshaw Controls in Long Bch and spending as much time as we could with our friends in Gonzaga Bay.
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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CortezBlue
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Registered: 11-14-2006
Location: Fenix/San Phelipe
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In 1975 I was a Senior in Scottsdale,
Baja, was on the bucket list, however, Rocky Point and Nogales were so much closer. The Baja, was just on the horizon in the future.
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Tbone
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Location: So Cal
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
1975?
Surfing in Baja of course (K55) on a ditch day with the older guys from my neighborhood in Mission Bay San Diego... Where else?
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I too surfed K55 back in the early 70s. I remember a friend of mine sitting on the last step of those ragged wooden bleachers, that stuck out of the
cliff, smoking a fatty. After all this was the 70s. It cost $2.00 to park your car back then, just pay the guy in the shack with the machete. You
didn't have to worry about your car, the parking guy would keep an eye on it for you. Good days.
Mas Pacifico
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bufeo
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Posts: 793
Registered: 11-16-2003
Location: Santa Fe New Mexico
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We were in the Santa Ynez Valley (CA). I was in my 13th year on the faculty of a college-prep boarding school. By that year we'd made many trips to
Baja California.
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajario
I believe I was living in Barnwell South Carolina. Two years old. Many moons and sunrises from Baja. |
BARNWELL!!!! Yikes! I might be one of the few on this forum who knows where Barnwell is. My parents lived in Allendale from 1957 - 1970.
Allen R
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Curt63
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Posts: 1171
Registered: 3-28-2009
Location: San Diego, Ca.
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Mood: Fish tacos and Tecate
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Great pics David.
Well, I was in sixth grade so all I did was skateboard all afternoon on the long winding hills of Rolling Hills, Ca.
My only Baja connection was that Parnelli Jones lived about 4 houses away and we got to see a never ending supply of race vehicles (mostly Broncos) in
his front yard. We used to go look at them but I had no idea what they were built for.
My baja trips started in 1978.
I envy you guys that were enjoying baja in those days.
No worries
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durrelllrobert
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Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
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In '75 I was working for the Dept. of Navy at China Lake, Ca but because much of my work involved dealing with east coast contractors , including one
in Middeltown, CT and another in Simsbury, CT I transfered to Wash. DC. I made one final trip to San Felipe before moving.
Bob Durrell
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Curt63
Great pics David.
Well, I was in sixth grade so all I did was skateboard all afternoon on the long winding hills of Rolling Hills, Ca.
My only Baja connection was that Parnelli Jones lived about 4 houses away and we got to see a never ending supply of race vehicles (mostly Broncos) in
his front yard. We used to go look at them but I had no idea what they were built for.
My baja trips started in 1978.
I envy you guys that were enjoying baja in those days. |
Very cool Curt!
Here is a photo I took of Parnelli as he drove his Big Oly Bronco the day before the 1973 Baja 1000 started in Ensenada... He had just come back from
'warming up his tires' (he said) and was parking it on his trailer.
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TMW
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Registered: 9-1-2003
Location: Bakersfield, CA
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I started out 1975 working in Paducah, Kentucky and got fired in Feb. Called my old boss up and got my old job back in Decatur, IL. Didn't move to CA
until 1978.
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sanquintinsince73
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Registered: 6-8-2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Gaspar De Portola Junior High in Tarzana, Ca. While all of the movie star's kid's went to St. Tropez, Paris, and Hawaii, we were doing Baja.
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dizzyspots
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Posts: 603
Registered: 9-22-2008
Location: Mescal AZ
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Mood: rather be on the beach at Gonzaga
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US Air Force....U-Tapoa Royal Thai Air Force Base...DC130 flightcrew...launching recon drones over VietNam
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