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Ateo
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Baja is a Separate Reality for me.
Since I first went down at the age of 7, the sights, sounds, and smells of Baja were foreign to me. Those days at Estero Beach were implanted into my
head and as soon as I was old enough and had a car my true Baja adventuring began.
For a 19 year old to be able to buy beer, park on a beach, and surf uncrowded waves is pretty close to paradise.
Adventure. Testing yourself in different environments. Getting stuck 50 miles from help. Meeting people who have that same exploratory spirit.
[Edited on 7-2-2016 by Ateo]
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Osprey
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Buckman, this is all good stuff. Why don't you start another thread and bring us up to speed about the big chunk of your past adventures you've left
out here.
For example most guys capture new girls with dinner and a movie -- you rented airplanes and spent a fortune flying all over the southland looking for
them, showing them some thrills.
Did you ever get your own plane, find the right girl, get married? If you're still single do you plan to begin again? Is that why you need a place
with a runway nearby? Inquiring minds want to know.
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David K
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Great stuff... why I made VivaBaja.com... the magic Baja has on me is not unique, it has the same power over all of you, too!
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SFandH
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Spending the winters on Bahia Concepcion in my travel trailer.
And, cheap dentistry! Just had a nasty broken molar extraction in Tijuana that required oral surgery, bone cutting, and sutures. $80!!
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fishbuck
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Technically not mine. But yes in my back yard maybe half mile or so.
I have seen a few bikes riding there. Minis and super minis.
The families parked near by barbecuing and sipping beer under tecate easyup tarps.
When I finally get to use it I will take my bobcat tractor over there and make a few bigger jumps and stuff and even lenghten it and try to use some
of the hills. I don't think anyone will care or even notice.
"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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Maderita
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What does Baja mean to you?
Endless untamed granite to be explored and climbed. Knowing that I am the first human to ever touch that (vertical) part of the earth. A lifetime of
first ascents 40+ years and counting).
Of course, there is so much more: good friends, adventure, dirt roads, remote palm canyons, cold cerveza, horseback riding, dirt bikes, 4x4, beaches,
surf, etc.
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ehall
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Exactly. No 2 trips are the same. Adventure comes comes in all forms for me but what I enjoy the most is exploring new places on my dirt bike or jeep.
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nbacc
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To go where others (people we know here in the USA) are afraid to go. Love stepping back 50 to 100 years. My husband was born 100 years too late.
sounds funny but ohhhh so true Nancy
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fishbuck
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Quote: Originally posted by nbacc  | | To go where others (people we know here in the USA) are afraid to go. Love stepping back 50 to 100 years. My husband was born 100 years too late.
sounds funny but ohhhh so true Nancy |
Exactly. I was thinking kind of the same thing. But mostly I was thinking that my love for and understanding of Baja was born to late or at least woke
up too late.
Most recently I am haunted about pre highway flying to Baja and what that must have been like. Who were these awesome people and what kind of plnes
did they fly. And most of all why did they do it and what changed that it was no longer a good idea and the runways were abandoned?
Kind of like DavidK and his love for and curiousity about the missions.
I feel like Baja is passing me by and I'm "stuck" in a conventional life instead of a baja life and all that means.
I realize how lucky and I guess smart that I purchased my lots 10 years ago which seemed incredibly foolhardy at the time. Not one of my friends or
family understood and all advised against with 1 cliche horror story or another.
I realised I was totally on my own.
It was a bit of a knee jerk reaction on my part based on fear of getting left out as the economy was booming and baja was being slicrd and diced.
Fortunately ( for me ) the bubble ecomony burst and the crime waves put the brakes on baja developement atleast temporarily.
My lots haven't appreciated much but that is ok. That was only an investment in me and maybe for my son someday.
I feel like I was lucky enough to buy a waterfront house in Newport Beach 100 years ago except for the I'd be dead by now part.
Don't you wish that you ancesters would have bought some prime property somewhere cool for you 100 years ago?
I wish mine did.
"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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David K
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Baja is a TIME MACHINE!
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grace59
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I made my first trip to Baja back in 1980 when I was 21. The beauty, friendly people and quiet soothed my soul and found a way into my heart. Each
time I cross the border into Baja it feels as if a heavy weight has been lifted from my shoulders and that I can breathe again. I love my friends
there....both Gringo and Mexican. I love the home that my husband and I had built there...I know every person that had a part in building that dream
for us. I love the desert, the sea, the mountains...the vastness of Baja. I love seeing the STARS at night because there is no light pollution. I love
that there is still so much for me to explore....notw that I am RETIRED and moving there soon enough! Yay!
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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fishbuck
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| Quote: Originally posted by grace59 | | I made my first trip to Baja back in 1980 when I was 21. The beauty, friendly people and quiet soothed my soul and found a way into my heart. Each
time I cross the border into Baja it feels as if a heavy weight has been lifted from my shoulders and that I can breathe again. I love my friends
there....both Gringo and Mexican. I love the home that my husband and I had built there...I know every person that had a part in building that dream
for us. I love the desert, the sea, the mountains...the vastness of Baja. I love seeing the STARS at night because there is no light pollution. I love
that there is still so much for me to explore....notw that I am RETIRED and moving there soon enough! Yay! |
Beautfully stated. Very nice.
Once I turn the corner at Playa de Tijauna I start to feel it...
"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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Sparetimewanted
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Discovered it in the 60's when my Dad got me Sea of Cortez by Ray Cannon. I new after the first 3 chapters that I needed to have Baja in my life.
First trip (high school drive with 2 buddies) to Puertocitos confirmed it. Can't figure a way to move down, but am managing a couple of weeks a year
down there!
Biggest concern is too many people discovering it and changing it. So envious of the nomads fortunate enough to have so much time in paradise!
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fishbuck
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| Quote: Originally posted by Sparetimewanted | Discovered it in the 60's when my Dad got me Sea of Cortez by Ray Cannon. I new after the first 3 chapters that I needed to have Baja in my life.
First trip (high school drive with 2 buddies) to Puertocitos confirmed it. Can't figure a way to move down, but am managing a couple of weeks a year
down there!
Biggest concern is too many people discovering it and changing it. So envious of the nomads fortunate enough to have so much time in paradise!
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Thank you. That is the book I was thinking of. Same. I think that is the first book I read about Baja too.
"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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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by fishbuck | | Quote: Originally posted by Sparetimewanted | Discovered it in the 60's when my Dad got me Sea of Cortez by Ray Cannon. I new after the first 3 chapters that I needed to have Baja in my life.
First trip (high school drive with 2 buddies) to Puertocitos confirmed it. Can't figure a way to move down, but am managing a couple of weeks a year
down there!
Biggest concern is too many people discovering it and changing it. So envious of the nomads fortunate enough to have so much time in paradise!
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Thank you. That is the book I was thinking of. Same. I think that is the first book I read about Baja too. |
The pier at the Flying Sportsman Lodge, Loreto, at sunrise!
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by Sparetimewanted | Discovered it in the 60's when my Dad got me Sea of Cortez by Ray Cannon. I new after the first 3 chapters that I needed to have Baja in my life.
First trip (high school drive with 2 buddies) to Puertocitos confirmed it. Can't figure a way to move down, but am managing a couple of weeks a year
down there!
Biggest concern is too many people discovering it and changing it. So envious of the nomads fortunate enough to have so much time in paradise!
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My dad thought Ray's book was outstanding and took me to the boat show to get Ray Cannon's autograph and he had Ray sign it to me (I was 9, in Jan
1967)...
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fishbuck
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You win again Dave!:
"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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ehall
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X2 that's cool.
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Ken Bondy
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My Baja story:
http://www.kenbondy.com/images/Journeys/Chapter%203_%20Baja....
carpe diem!
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David K
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Ken, now that is a winner! New book chapter? 
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