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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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A lot of books had great titles that expressed Baja emotions... here's a few more...
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captkw
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Location: el charro b.c.s.
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baja and mexico
its been a large part of my life since the age of 7 and love it !! and bld &blu am not a gringo as this is one of my many "homes" ....Me
Sangra??..........vino tinto? always gets a laugh !!
[Edited on 8-23-2014 by captkw]
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windgrrl
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Many a trip continues after movement in time and space have ceased.
~ J. Steinbeck
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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MMc
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There are lots of great quotes from Baja lit. A little digging is required. digging is the best part.... I wait for the report if your digging.
Missing Earl is like missing Matt in the second book, if you get my point...
Swing and a Miss.
Ray Cannon and Earl Stanly are part of the writing foundation of Baja.
[Edited on 8-23-2014 by MMc]
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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captkw
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Location: el charro b.c.s.
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The Baja HWY
Till a few short years ago........."Driving the Baja highway is like being on a 727 jet trip... Hours of Boredom...and moments of shear terror !!!""
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bajacalifornian
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Baja . . . God tapped me on the head, with a wand.
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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Pappy Jon
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Not exactly short:
"People come to Baja California for many reasons ... for me its attraction is the sense of freedom it conveys and the spiritual feeling engendered by
its majesty and it's vast (if now rapidly) receding emptiness. I keep returning ... because Baja keeps calling me; calling me most loudly in the
heart-piercing silence of its lonely shores and cactus-studded mountains. Calling me to stand awed, sometimes overawed, alone and fearful ... to
confront it and to confront myself once again." - Graham Mackintosh, Marooned With Very Little Beer.
"Baja? Don't go ... and leave more room for me." ~ Pappy Jon
"The association of flowers and warm-blooded love is more than a romantic convention; it is based upon one of the great advances in the evolution
of life." Ed Abbey
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Skipjack Joe
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Kurtch and Humphreyville both wrote well about baja. Especially Krutch's Forgotten Peninsula.
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volcano
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Osprey needs to post here his short essay describing fading footsteps on the beach in the haze......did your neighbor really see you down there? were
you really there?
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Kurtch and Humphreyville both wrote well about baja. Especially Krutch's Forgotten Peninsula. |
Krutch (original 1961):
Krutch (newer edition):
Mike Humpfreville:
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Marinero
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
hot, dirty, bandito ridden?  |
Keeping out the Pilgrims?
Si estás buscando la person que cambiará su vida, échale una mirada en el espejo.
Fish logo from www.usafishing.com, used w/permission.
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have..... |
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Marinero
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| Quote: | Originally posted by buzzbar
On another forum I read a post on Baja from some snobby “Baja is not the real Mexico” guy.
"You folks in Baja California are in a tourist zone, a rather free place, and generally have little idea of what lies beyond. In the interior of
Mexico, laws and rules are enforced and proper behavior is expected from everyone, but it’s a different world all through the Baja Peninsula that has
little connection to the rest of Mexico. It seems to be a sort of anything goes, hippy beach party suburb of San Diego." |
Clearly never been there........or was looking for Baja in all the wrong places.
Si estás buscando la person que cambiará su vida, échale una mirada en el espejo.
Fish logo from www.usafishing.com, used w/permission.
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have..... |
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StuckSucks
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I always loved this line from Dust to Glory: "Baja, where the wild west meets the Twilight Zone."
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