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BajaRat
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
When I was 15 in 1952 my dad worked with a Mexican man who's brother was a TJ policeman and we were invited to a beach party at Rosarito that included
roasting a whole steer.
My dads job was to bring down a trailer load of firewood and my mother and sister decided to sleep in the trailer under a tarp instead of on the
beach. During the night the were awakened by several Mexican men shaking the trailer and making comments in Spanish about them.
They both started screaming and the TJ policeman, who was sleeping in his car next to the trailer, woke up and shot one of them. Him and my dad put
the body in the trailer and drove down the road where they threw it over the cliff.
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We're cool though, Right Bob 
1965, three years old with my cool parents in a 58 VW camper van.
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dtbushpilot
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Went to TJ with my neighbors when I was about 12 or so (1965?). They were a large Mexican family and obviously knew their way around and had family
there. Looking back it is pretty remarkable that my parents would let the neighbors take me to a foreign country to "have a good time" which as I
recall everybody did. Ate tacos and "pepitas", bought fireworks, had a great time that I still remember (don't ask me what I had for breakfast).
Went back to TJ around 1969 with a friend that had ran a tree branch through his Jeep radiator. We dropped it off at a radiator shop and had a beer at
the bar next door while they fixed it. I remember that the bill was $1.50 and we had to wait around while the proprietor's son went down the road to
get us change for 2 bucks.
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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JZ
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1981. Didn't make it back on my own until the late 90's.
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chuckie
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1956
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bajabuddha
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
1956 |
YABUT..... travelling in a fallopian tube doesn't count. 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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chuckie
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That's just YOUR opinion, Dude.....Actually was in the US Navy..every weekend in Baja...Made it as far as the Comondus in a 49 Mercury...
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elgatoloco
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My first trip probably included some puking. Its a bit fuzzy. My parents bought a house on the beach in 1960 when I was 2. My dad is 89 and his father
would take him fishing to La Mision and Salisipudes when he was just a boy and he continued to travel down for fishing, diving, surfing. Now he just
goes down for the margaritas, golf and sunsets.
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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desertcpl
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San Felipe
1953 on the beach in San Felipe,, which would be now Rubens Camp
I was 9 at the time,, my father was in the rear of the pix,
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Who's got the earliest Baja experience?
That's easy!
His name was
"Oog"
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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chuckie
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And his wifes name?
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
And his wifes name? |
Oooga (the inventor of the Model T horn?) 
Bob Durrell
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by desertcpl
1953 on the beach in San Felipe,, which would be now Rubens Camp
I was 9 at the time,, my father was in the rear of the pix, |
Back when taking of Tortuga was still legal?
Bob Durrell
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bajamedic
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Sorry, I am too young to have the "first", but for me it was 1965, I was 10 and we went to San Felipe. My father and Uncle helped to build a small
church there as my father worked for a fairly large materials supplier in San Jose, CA. The local contractors would keep my fathers "Mexico" stash
well supplied with whatever was needed at the time, they were very generous in purchasing things on my dads list and then just handing it over for him
to deliver and build with. For me, it was a great time with the local boys and one really special girl in town, her eyes and smile captured my heart
for quite some time. The tide pools, fire works on the beach, a major sunburn and buying warm coke's from the bar in town still bring a smile to my
face when I think about my time there. Watching the locals help my uncle launch his boat with an old army truck that had to go so far out to get
enough water to float the boat off of the trailer was also quite a thrill. Bringing home my first tiny switchblade knife/letter opener, running
through and exploring a small dirt street town with my new friends, being introduced to fish head soup and admiring the happy and generous people that
had so little and yet had so much more than I. JH
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Hook
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My first time was not so exciting, really. My family and I camped with some neighbors at Cantamar. We brought a sand rail down and had a great time in
the dunes just south of there. I was 16.
On one of the sand rail expeditions w/o the parents, we bought beers (horrible, warm XXX beer in cans) from the family that controlled access to the
dunes from the free road side. They were 15 cents. We drank em and drove around drunk in the dunes. Later, we met some girls who were also from SoCal
and we did some necking at night in the dunes.
We also went to a lobster fisherman's house in the general area where Puerto Nuevo eventually grew into a big lobster to-do. I still remember that a
complete meal of all the fried lobster you can eat, with beans, rice and tortillas was 5.00 US. Seems like we could never eat more than about two
whole lobsters. I imagine the lobsters were much larger then but I also discovered that I could probably eat five times that if they are only steamed.
Deep fried was delicious but overwhelming.
We sat out on a picnic table on the guys back porch and there was a fridge full of beers for sale, too. We were "allowed" a beer. Whoo-hoo, Mexico!!
Where everyone comes to cut loose!!
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Hook
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Uh-oh, pic size violation. Someone is going to hear about it.
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Mexitron
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1964 I was 6 yrs old and crammed into a pickup with a bunch of Girl Scouts ( ) going to an orphanage in Ensenada. But didn't start really doing Baja until 1975.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Venturing south of El Rosario, before 1973 was pretty much a boundary point, or south of San Felipe / Puertecitos.
Looking back, not many of the streets in Ensenada were paved. A thin, badly poured ribbon of asphalt connected Ensenada to (?) Camalu?
If you spent time in Baja California Sur, the territory not the state, that's quite a few years ago.
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bajamedic
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Uh-oh, pic size violation. Someone is going to hear about it.
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I still have not mastered that skill, but I am working on it. JH 
[Edited on 5-19-2014 by bajamedic]
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mulegemichael
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first time as a brash young navy man looking for the famous "donkey show" in tijuana..that would be 1965...never found the show but found lots of
other stuff...then returned in 1970 with a buddy hitchhiking...we ended up on the beach at punta banda, built a scrabbled together driftwood shelter
and stayed 10 months...met tons of locals, drank their beer, smoked their pot, made out with their senoritas...overall just a wonderful chunk of time
in my life.....and i just keep going back now 49 years later.
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabuddha
YABUT..... travelling in a fallopian tube doesn't count.
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Bob Durrell
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