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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
If any of you start to smell something bad, it was only me. I melted the bottoms of my tennis shoes resting them on the rocks around the fire pit.
Sorry.
P<*)))>{ |
I hate it when that happens! 
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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DianaT
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Interesting to read what others think a forum should be----just interesting --- just as it is interesting to read how some people define a "friendly"
disagreement.
Lots of opinions-----
[Edited on 8-23-2008 by jdtrotter]
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Gadget
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I like the camp fire analogy very much.
I actually like most of this thread.
One thing about sitting around a campfire, everyone gets the smoke in their eyes at some point.
Some get teary eyes
Some sit and take it
Some leave
"Mankind will not be judged by their faults, but by the direction of their lives." Leo Giovinetti
See you in Baja
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vivaloha
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Pass the s'mores
I too concur with the Baja Runner's analogy...
Its helpful to picture it like that...there's been a few
bonfires so wrecked by the new crew that i've just
stumbled off to my tent a little earlier than expected...
then again, there's been some classic ones where i've found
myself kicking it much longer than expected...bottom line,
in both the bonfires and here, try to not let other peoples' weird
perspectives negatively affect you...just let it flow off you like
water off a duck's back...don't wear it, don't wear their words
and just continue to be your own happy positive person...
vivaloha
Baja California can be a heaven or hell experience - often the determining factor is your AWARENESS in the moment.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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Did someone say smores?
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BajaVida
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I remember the bonfire you started in Catavina one afternoon
but since I hope to ride with thebajarunner in March, I will keep the details to myself
No se apure y dure.
Don\'t hurry and you\'ll last longer.
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thebajarunner
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Even your friends cannot keep a secret!!!
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaVida
but since I hope to ride with thebajarunner in March, I will keep the details to myself |
Ouch!!!
That was a different kind of bonfire, for sure,
Guess it needs to be told.
Christmas week, 2006, the little missus and I took a quick trip down to Catavina.
I took her down the secret side road to the all-time great secluded and holy campsite- WHAM- right in the middle of the fire ring is a trashed old
Ford F-100.
So, I reported back this sad news to our gang of Baja Boyz and when we returned for our annual trip in March the next year we brought chains and tow
straps to drag it out to the Carreterra and hope it would disappear.
Well, the good news- we got there and the truck was gone.
The bad news- someone had really stripped it and left the leavings all over the sacred campsite. Plastic, carpets, vinyl, lots of fiberglass scrap-
you name it.
Well, we were too loaded down to haul it out, burying it would not be a solution,
so, Voila, major, I mean MAJOR bonfire.
At one point we thought the black smoke plume probably could have been seen from El Rosario.
Ah, but in the end, all the ash scraped into the fire ring, and the sacred (did I mention 'holy') campsite is restored,
That's my story,
I'm stickin' with it....
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lingililingili
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thebajarunner: Thank you! Muy bien dicho!
•Life is just one damned thing after another
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thebajarunner
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Not sure which one you liked, but thanks
| Quote: | Originally posted by lingililingili
thebajarunner: Thank you! Muy bien dicho! |
If you were liking my "Ode to Nomad" at the front end of the thread, then thanks!!
If you liked my solution to the trashed camp, well, thanks again...
muy amable hermano....
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lingililingili
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thebajarunner: You're welcome. I like all of it. I have not been on a whole lot of late but I've enjoyed this thread. I know it is hard to tell
by my name, but I am an "hermana".
•Life is just one damned thing after another
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thebajarunner
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Lingi lil
Isn't there a rule somewhere in language
that if one is uncertain as to gender that the masculine
is acceptable....
we can take a brief time out here while I continue dissembling, backing and stalling for time....
oh well
sorry 'bout dat...
as one who only has daughters I try to be very very very considerate of that subject....
lo siento mucho(a)
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Von
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HEY David k
Where are some of those magic rocks you have for the fire to change color?
I love it when the fire turns blue greeneee.....
READY SET.....................
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Paulina
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Von,
Next time you're at Daggett's head up to La Gringa. You'll find the magic rocks there, close to the old toilets, if there are any rocks left.
They are pretty and might be fun to toss in the fire every now and then when the crowd needs distracting.
P<*)))>{
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Skeet/Loreto
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" WINDS OF FATE" by Wilcox
One ship drives east and another drives west
with the selfsame winds that blow.
'tis the set of the sails
and not the gales which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life:
'Tis the set of the soul
that decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
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vandenberg
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Hey Skeeter,
What happened to your "Sabbatical" 
[Edited on 8-27-2008 by vandenberg]
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Von
HEY David k
Where are some of those magic rocks you have for the fire to change color?
I love it when the fire turns blue greeneee.....
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Like this?
Photo by Bedman, Camp Gecko 2002
Photo I took in 2005, didn't come out as good as Bedman's showing the magic rock affect...
[Edited on 8-27-2008 by David K]
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