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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Glidergeek
.... places on the way on the beach for nice overbite stops? .... |
Your orthodontist might know 
Don't believe everything you think....
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chuckie
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I love women with a "significant overbite"
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The pavement continues to km 154. Photos to follow.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by StuckSucks
The pavement continues to km 154. Photos to follow. |
Do you know the km at the Pemex so we can figure how far south it is now. I must say that seeing the new road and Santa Maria arroyo bridge is really
sad for me having driven that road since I was 16 (1974, a dozen years before
It was graded).
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StuckSucks
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Do you know the km at the Pemex so we can figure how far south it is now. |
Sorry, no.
BTW: When heading south on 11/7, the Pemex station had both pumps covered with plastic. On the trip north 11/17, one pump was covered with plastic and
there was human movement in the station.
And the Playa Grande store complex continues to grow ...
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StuckSucks
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Oh, and I noticed the pavement isn't linear - there's a section with pavement, then a section of non-pavement, then pavement again, etc.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by StuckSucks
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Do you know the km at the Pemex so we can figure how far south it is now. |
Sorry, no.
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Okay, I am home now and could do a little searching...
The Puertecitos junction is at KM. 74+ and my last road log south put the Gonzaga Pemex at 44 miles south of Puertecitos Jcn., or 71 kms.
KM. 74 + 71 = KM. 145 at Gonzaga Pemex (estimate)
You posted the pavement ends now at KM. 154
154-145 = 9 kms. = 5.6 miles... this should be on the new Arroyo Santa Maria bridge? Do you recall how close to the new bridge the pavement went?
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by StuckSucks
Oh, and I noticed the pavement isn't linear - there's a section with pavement, then a section of non-pavement, then pavement again, etc.
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Yes, it is funny why they do that!
Way back in July 1973, while building Hwy. 1 northward between Guerrero Negro and Laguna Chapala, they would pave a section of the new roadbed, then a
long unpaved part, then more pavement!? It was pretty weird.
The southbound team did not... The pavement ended by Rancho El Progreso (Mission San Fernando road), and that was it... road bed continued on past San
Agustin to about the Agua Dulce road... then it was the old original Baja 1000 road past Santa Ynez (no Cataviņa yet) to Laguna Chapala where we met
road crews coming north.
That was all in July, and the highway was finished that November and opened on Dec. 1 by the president. Amazing when compared to this Hwy. 5 team,
only doing 6 miles a year! Of course that first paving was so bad, it was crappy in under 10 years.
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The road improvments continue for about 14 miles past the gas station. As said, some is paved and some is compacted getting ready to pave. The new
road mengles with the old road. I mean we were driving to the east of the new road until after the bridge going south then at some point we crossed
over to the west side. After the Punta Final jct with the road west to Las Palmitas. Where we crossed west is where the old road made a long downhill
sweep to the right then left and there is a concrete pad. The concrete pad is at 29-36.580x114-23.900. I think when this new stuff is paved it will be
about 10 miles to Coco, maybe less.
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Bob H
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WOW!
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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David K
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More from Mando... THANKS!
Mando of Bahia de los Angeles sent me these photos, taken last week... Images sized to 640 pixels...
Coco just before the Baja 1000
South from L.A. Bay, looking north to the bay.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Do you recall how close to the new bridge the pavement went? |
My brain cell seems to remember less than a mile.
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24baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Mando of Bahia de los Angeles sent me these photos, taken last week...
Coco just before the Baja 1000
South from L.A. Bay, looking north to the bay. |
Love and miss our Mando. Great pics! C
[Edited on 11-20-2014 by 24baja]
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David K
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24baja, we need Mando to join Nomad! He joined Ron's (Baja Gringo's) Talk Baja forum, so I know he can do it!   (Oh, and he does read Nomad... the
pressure is on!)
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24baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
24baja, we need Mando to join Nomad! He joined Ron's (Baja Gringo's) Talk Baja forum, so I know he can do it! (Oh, and he does read Nomad... the
pressure is on!) |
Hi David K,
Mando is one of the sweetest guys on earth and I think his hesitation how brutal it can be here at Nomads. I tell him to read and choose his words
carefully and he will escape the haters. That being said I am sure I will receive a few comments from said haters for this comment. Connie
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David K
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Yup Connie, exactly... I get the "how dare you DK tell me what I can say here" when I only suggest ways to appear friendlier to future Nomads. It is
really sad that once some of these folks find this forum, they don't want anyone else to enjoy it with them? Nomad is kind of like the Seven Sisters
surfing area... room for anyone who can get there and more fun if they do!
I met Mando at the Campo de Cahuenga even in L.A. and he has been so cool to know and talk to in the time since.
http://www.yelp.com/events/los-angeles-campo-de-cahuenga-the...
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