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David K
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Posts: 64852
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Surdoc Stan and Bernie! |
Here are some more images of Benie Swaim (Baja Bernie) to add to the one I posted above with the late 'Herb' of Baja Nomad...
2007 (Pyramid Resort Book Signing #5):
2008 (Pyramid Resort Book Signing #6):
Bernie's Books:
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Pacifico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by brewer
J.L. Terry from San Francisquito. Retired San Diego firefighter.
Anyone ever meet him? |
Brewer, I missed this when you posted it. Yes, JL was a friend of mine and we were down there with him when he passed. It was a nightmare and a great
loss...
And of course, Curt! I know I have more photos somewhere, but found this one of him:
"Plan your life as if you are going to live forever. Live your life as if you are going to die tomorrow." - Carlos Fiesta
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brewer
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Location: BCS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vacaenbaja
I have met J L Terry if he was the guy that lived more or less full time in
that perfect little foul weather hide out of a cove along side the navy drug patrol. He had his
own floating dock there, if thats the same guy. |
That was him, J L Terry. Died at 64, damn young.
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Ken Bondy
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Anybody remember Jack Devine, the bounty hunter who was a regular at San Francisquito? He was quite a guy!
carpe diem!
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desertcpl
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Location: yuma,az
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Jack
[Edited on 12-14-2013 by desertcpl]
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Ken Bondy
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desertcpl I remember you and I discussed Jack a while ago. I used to really enjoy his stories, and somehow with him you got the feeling they were
TRUE. Sorry I spelled his name wrong 
carpe diem!
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desertcpl
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yes Jack was full of life, he was very entertaining chap
also very kind and generous,, very big heart
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vacaenbaja
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My early years in Baja were spent exclusively chasing billfish on the East Cape. My first
and favorite skipper was Manuel Araiza Cota. A great friendly man with a wonderful wife and family. There is a picture of him in group in Gene Kira's
The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez
Whenever you gather by campfire or hearth lift a glass To Absent Friends.
[Edited on 12-14-2013 by vacaenbaja]
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64852
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vacaenbaja
My early years in Baja were spent exclusively chasing billfish on the East Cape. My first
and favorite skipper was Manuel Araiza Cota. A great friendly man with a wonderful wife and family. There is a picture of him in group in Gene Kira's
The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez
Whenever you gather by campfire or hearth lift a glass To Absent Friends.
[Edited on 12-14-2013 by vacaenbaja] |
What page... and I will show it here...
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MrBillM
Platinum Nomad
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Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Out and About
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Among the Missing, but found to be still Around
Thanks to an L.A. Times A-1 article this morning, I find that Chuck Cecil is, at 90 (contrary to what I'd thought), still
kicking.
His a.m. program beginning in 1956 on KFI, "The Swinging Years", was something I tried never to miss in those youthful days.
Living in Ventura with his wife, he STILL produces the syndicated show each week.
Unfortunately, it doesn't air where I am.
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durrelllrobert
Elite Nomad
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Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
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Tony Reyes Sr. even though is was never a BajaNomad and I don't think Tony Jr. is either. Wazup with that?
edit to add photo
[Edited on 12-24-2013 by durrelllrobert]
Bob Durrell
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willardguy
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Dee Cupz from anthony's. think she back to sonora. 
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woody with a view
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Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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Mom's B-day was Dec 8
Granny's Bday was Dec 2
I REALLY miss them.....
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wetto
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Registered: 10-28-2013
Location: Grass Valley, CA / Mulege
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Cork Pepper.
The stories she would tell me of her explorations in Baja got me interested and my fishing trips got me hooked.
Lee S
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Gypsy Jan
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Hi There, MrBillM
This is for you - listen to him online.
http://tunein.com/radio/Swingin-Years-p2100/
Merry Christmas!
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64852
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wetto
Cork Pepper.
The stories she would tell me of her explorations in Baja got me interested and my fishing trips got me hooked. |
Hi 'wetto'... welcome to Nomad... Sounds like you knew her, too? I was very lucky to get to know here and get to share her collections and hope to
inspire Baja/desert adventures as she did with me! Re-finding her lost mission in 2009 south of L.A. Bay was a great moment for me... Now I am on a
hunt for another mystery she wrote about often, the Lost Diaz Grave!
She added an 'e' to 'Cork' so it would seem more feminine, she told me (Corke)... Since most knew here as Choral, I don't usually use her nick name
here... She autographed books as Corke however...
A GREAT human that loved the desert and Baja... I am honored to have her collections to share with other desert and Baja fans.
See the web page I made to show some of here photos from the '60's: http://choralpepper.com
Some photos from that site...
Choral Pepper listening to one of Erle Stanley Gardner's great campfire stories in Baja.
Choral talking with San Ignacio's Frank Fischer and E.S. Gardner ('Uncle Erle').
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jeans
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Posts: 1059
Registered: 9-16-2002
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Nobody has mentioned Chopy (Cornell Crawford)
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeans
Nobody has mentioned Chopy (Cornell Crawford)
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You just did! Chopy was known as ESL (El Surfo Loco) before 'Chopy Chavez'... He was killed near San Jose del Cabo just months after we met him at
BBBB-4. Chopy was a young, healthy Mexican citizen born to Americans living in Baja, developing hotels in Los Cabos. I think the Finisterra was one?
His ongoing battle was with squatters on his land in Cabo Pulmo and corruption in the government of Baja California Sur.
Photos of Chopy with M, jeans, and David K, Sept. 21, 2002:
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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Mike Humfreville. He was old school baja and loved the land about as much as anyone. |
I bought Mike's book at the Discover Baja's Christmas party and had him sign it. The book went to my mother and got left with my sister in Ventura
Co..
I did not get to read it for several months. When I did, he had me blubbering on the first few pages at his view of life and family and I remember
thinking..."Mike, you're such a putz" (a term of endearment that was a joke at the time) I made a mental note to tell him I had enjoyed his
book...finally.
When I got back to the board on Monday, I learned he was gone. I had started his book on the day he died...Why that day? I still get chills thinking
about it.
I miss him.
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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motoged
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6481
Registered: 7-31-2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
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A bit of desperate resurrection ?
Don't believe everything you think....
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