Doc,
I make my own adventures in Baja and pay for them myself....I think what these guys are doing is cool....I would just do it differently when it comes
to some of their planning.
As for others...I am not thinking of anyone in particular when I make a comment about the "rah rah" overboard comments some have made. I suggest
that it might be the couch potato keyboard commandos who are doing much of the oohing and aaahhing.....but I have been mistaken in my perceptive
assumptions before.
On a hike, weather does not dictate your pace nearly as much on a paddle. #Sunrise tends to have the least amount of wind. In the last few weeks we've
adopted the lifestyle of rising an hour or two before the sun crawls up among the islands to our east and paddling until we tire. When the winds pick
up, we hunker down. As we near the final weeks of the trip, this transect is perhaps the most extraordinary thing we have ever done. We've been
traversing this peninsula for over 3 months now. 900 miles? Ah, who knows. Everyday is fresh and presents new obstacles in a new landscape. This
project began as an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a wilderness that may not exist someday soon. That idea makes it difficult not to savor every
moment.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
The lost boys Justin and Bryan made it to the harbor in San Jose del Cabo today. We hosted them to lunch and dinner yesterday and got to know them.
Fine young guys. We even got in a little surf together.
They headed out around 7 Am through heavy surf this morning. Justin had to do a re-do after an inside wave rejected him back to shore. No equipment
lost except a spare pair of pants.
What an admirable adventure they have had. Best of luck guys, and hope to see you again.
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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