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backninedan
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Posts: 865
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Location: Loreto
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If you see an eighty year old woman pushing a wheelbarrow down the street, followed by her sixty year old son riding a bike and carrying a chicken.
You might be!!!!
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bajabass
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Posts: 2016
Registered: 10-4-2006
Location: La Paz,BCS
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Mood: Want to fish!!!
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You have more/better furniture at the house in La Mision than at your condo in Orange!! Feel more at home in the local carneceria than at Ralph's!!
Your cup holder is full of pesos for the toll booths!!
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Steve in Oro Valley
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Location: Near Tucson
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This a seed grown plant that is about 30 years old. I bought it about 10 years ago from Sr. Cirio who has a large nursery in the Tucson Mtns.
Sr. Cirio use to accompany Dr. Humphreys on seed collecting trips to the Baja Peninsula in the 60s and 70s.
[Edited on 3-31-2007 by Steve in Oro Valley]
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Steve in Oro Valley
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This cardon was planted by me 21 years ago when it was 2 feet tall...
It has bloomed and set fruit for 12 years in a row but this year it is retarded by the extreme cold of January... The cold that wiped out 80 percent
of California's citrus crop...
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Steve in Oro Valley
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Here is a descendant of Totem pole cactus probably collected by Dr. Lindsay of the California Academy of Science in about 1940. He met AnIta Espinoza
then and soon later got his first big position as Director of the Desert Botanical Garden in Papago Park in Phoenix in about 1941....
This is a 3rd generation cutting of a stump that I acquired in 1976...
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woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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Mood: Everchangin'
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maybe, i dunno
when you catch yourself still waving at oncoming cars, after you've crossed la linea...
when you wife gets all peeed about the few "kernels" of sand (really baja seasoning) in her meal. 
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LaRibereņa
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Posts: 110
Registered: 8-27-2003
Location: Tehama, CA & La Ribera, BCS
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You shake hands with everyone!
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DianaT
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Posts: 10020
Registered: 12-17-2004
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If your four food groups are
Cilantro
Ajo
Hot peppers---jalapenos, habaneros, chipolte etc.
Tortitias, ---maiz or harina
You might be a Baja Nomad
[Edited on 4-1-2007 by jdtrotter]
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Cameron
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Posts: 117
Registered: 10-12-2004
Location: Todos Santos / Seattle WA
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Mood: Thirsty!
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You Might Be A Nomad...
..If you cry when you cross the border.
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Paulina
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Posts: 3810
Registered: 8-31-2002
Location: BCN
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YOU MIGHT BE A NOMAD IF...
at any point during the day you look at you significant other and say, "Guess where I just was?"
And they have an honest understanding when you answer:
on the smooth bench, under the trees in San Ignacio, at the view as you come upon Bahia de Los Angeles, on the road to San Javiar in 1988, eating at
my favorite taco stand, talking with Fred on the bluf above Punta Banda, finding that whale bone on such a such a beach, loosing the swim step as we
chased that last whale shark....
You might be a Nomad if your every day thougths just happen to be wishing you were 'home'.
P<*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
And they have an honest understanding when you answer:
on the smooth bench, under the trees in San Ignacio
P<*)))>< |
Yes!!
I've been daydreaming about that exact same thing a lot recently. How did you know? Snoozing on those cold benches, watching the kids play. What a
welcome relief from that harsh sun.
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Phil S
Super Nomad
Posts: 1205
Registered: 10-28-2003
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Mood: After 34 years. Still in love w/ my wife
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You know your a Baja Nomad when your watching your "ball games" in Spanish, and you don't care!!!!!!
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fdt
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Posts: 4059
Registered: 9-7-2003
Location: Tijuana, Baja California
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Mood: Yeah, what if it all goes right
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You know you're a Nomad if you decide not to drink anymore beer when in Baja, but also decide not to drink any less 
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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bajabass
Super Nomad
Posts: 2016
Registered: 10-4-2006
Location: La Paz,BCS
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Mood: Want to fish!!!
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Every time you cross the border you only declare dirty laundry!!
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wiltonh
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Registered: 2-2-2007
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You know that you are an OLD Nomad, when your first trip to Cabo was the first year the pavement went all the way down.
You know that you are a Nomad, when the distance from your US home to the border, is the same distance from the border to Cabo and you cannot wait for
the next trip.
You know that you are a Nomad, when you return home and take out your wallet for the offering in church and find only Pesos.
You know that you are really messed up when you pull into a gas station in Baja and pull out a bunch of bills and hand them to the attendant. He
looks at you like you are crazy. One of the bills was left over from the last trip to Coast Rica.
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Phil S
Super Nomad
Posts: 1205
Registered: 10-28-2003
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Mood: After 34 years. Still in love w/ my wife
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wiltonh. That 1,000 miles to border from your home must be in southern Oregon somewhere, huh????? I'm at Oregon mp 125 on I-5
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wiltonh
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Actually we now live in Portland Oregon.
We lived near Spokane Washington when we made our first trip to Cabo.
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jimgrms
Senior Nomad
Posts: 664
Registered: 9-30-2005
Location: oceanside ca
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Mood: its always good
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You might be a nomad if you made your first trip to baja at the age of 14 and you are now 70 and can still laugh about the nite you spent in a san
felipe jail
or if you knew the clam man when he sold clams instead of t shirts
[Edited on 4-9-2007 by jimgrms]
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M
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Posts: 392
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA.
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Mood: looking for joy...
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You might be a Nomad if...
If you mourned the loss of 'Amigos' like loosing a dear, dear friend, but then are BLESSED and elated to have found everybody on THIS board, YOU ARE
A NOMAD!
If the Captain on a long range fishing trip out of Ensenada starts calling you 'Feather' (like a trolling feather) because your dressed worse than the
deckhands. Plaids with polka dots, any obnoxious color combination that happens to fit at the thrift store, for 'Baja Wear and tear and toss, you
might be a Nomad
If you drive a beat to hell, jacked up Chevy Van with HUGE tires and 3 fuel filters, drive her year round in BMW land, and you lovingly name her
'Grunt', you may be a Nomad.
If you have unpacked everything, dug yourself out of the sand and can't even remember how many times you have done it per year, you might be a Nomad.
If you can scare hell out of Graham Mackintosh, 5 miles out to sea in a collapsible 12 foot Porta Boat hooked up to a Marlin,
you may be a Nomad. (we lost it)
If you can roll that Porta Boat upside down in the surf, and come out of the water TOTALLY naked in front of Many witnesses, and later treasure the
memory, you may be a Nomad.
If you settle for rattlesnake on a stick with taco bell sauce for dinner because you are to lazy to go into town shopping, and dinner just happened
to slither into camp....well, you might be a Nomad.
If the border guys don't even bother to ask you any more what you were doing in Mexico, because one look at you and it is OBVIOUS your a dirty Baja
desert rat with a forlorn look on your face, coming back to the states, well, you might be a Nomad.
Hugs,
M
P.S BHL and I are leaving for Florida on Friday for the daughters WEDDING! God, I get to be called 'Grandma all week too..sniff.
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64946
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Graham Mackintosh in M's Porta-Boat
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