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fdt
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4059
Registered: 9-7-2003
Location: Tijuana, Baja California
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We met briefly at the first Vivabaja party at the San Clemente pier in 2000 and I enjoyed reading his posts. Our thoughts and prairs are with your
family.
Viva Mike.....Viva
fernadetijuana and family
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El Camote
Senior Nomad
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Registered: 9-7-2003
Location: Above the clouds
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Mary Ann,
Our family is grieving this devastating loss and thinking of you and the boys. Please, please let us know if we can be of any help from this end.
xoxoxo
Michael, Wendy and Charlie
[Edited on 11-8-2006 by El Camote]
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bajalou
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Location: South of the broder
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I met Mike a couple of times and Mary Ann once at the San Felipe book signing. A real person and one that we all will miss. His take on life as told
in his stories is something wonderful. Condolences to Mary Ann and the young men in his family.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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marv sherrill
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Mary Anne - we are so sorry about Mike - We will be at our house in Bahia within the next 2 weeks and stay way through Thanksgiving or as long as we
can be of help. Please feel free to call on us for anything. - Marv and Gail
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Gypsy Jan
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My Condolences
To you and your family on the loss of a beloved husband, father, brother, uncle and much more.
I only knew you and Mike in the internet kind of way. He was brave enough to write honestly about his life - the successes, the failures, but above
all, about Baja and his deep and abiding love for the land and the people.
He was brave enough to "go naked" in front of strangers, to publish his most intimate feelings about his life and insights and aspirations on this
"new media", the Internet, exposing himself to the sometimes dismissive, sometimes callous and corrosive judgement of strangers.
When I read here about his passing, the first thought that popped into my head was, "He's the luckiest man I almost met."
Forgive me if I have any details wrong, but I believe he was in a part of his life where he had achieved his lifelong goals; he had successfully
moved full time to a place in Baja that he has loved since he was a teenager, he had raised sucessfully a family that was busy spreading their wings
and finding their own destiny, and, right up to the end, he was writing and sharing the thoughts and ideas and memories that crammed his brain and
begged to be expressed.
Vaya con dios, Mike, go gentle into that goodnight.
“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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CaboMagic
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Please accept sincerest condolences from all of us Mary Ann, extended to your sons and loved ones. Fondly and respectfully, Tommy & Lori Garcia
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JESSE
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El buen Mike will be very missed. One of the things i was missing the most in the past few years was not reading as many stories from Mike as i used
to. When i first got on the old amigos board, i use to writte a lot about Baja and Mike would praise my little old boring stories. Eventually the
board started to change a lot. and i guess it pushed away many great guys like Mike. But even then, he would not leave us dry for long, and he would
suddenly post something that reminded us of how this and the late amigo board started. As just a place where guys could talk about Baja everything in
a civil matter, with no politics, no riff raff arguing about this and that.
Mike will be missed
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Bonair
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Registered: 11-6-2002
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I seldom post on this board and am a great lurker. Two people kept pulling me back. David K. for his historical knowledge of Baja and Mike Humfreville
for his compassionate love of Baja. I will miss his insightful writings. Mary Ann and your sons may you be held gently in the palms of HIS hands.
Glenna
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Paulina
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Because Mike would not want us to sit around all gloomy faced.....
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A few friends and I have named certain stars in the clear night skys of Baja after friends who have passed. We sit on the patio and toast them
often...(all too often, my wife says!) A nice bright one is now named Mike Humpreyville...right next to Manuel. Salud, friend of Baja.
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My daughter Cody, who earlier wrote on her blog her thoughts and feelings about Mike's passing, bought a new fish today. Just as Summanus named a star
after him, I bet you all can guess what Cody named her new fish. Mike would be proud, I would think.
On our way to the fish store she told me of her friends at school today and how she shared with them that her friend Mike had died. She then asked me
the question, "Did Mike have any grandchildren?" She and I both knew the answer to that question. I think it was just to qualify her next question.
She then asked me if it was ok that she told her friends at school that Mike was "like her baja grampa, sorta like Bedman and Herman".
I think Mike would have liked that. Afterall, she's only 11 and she knew him for over half of her years. I think that qualifies.
I think I'll keep a better eye on our fish tank.
P><*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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jmcleod
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Mike Humfreville
I'm an old friend of Mike's (over 24 years) & unfortunately the reports of his passing are true. We will miss him immensly! He died on Sunday
morning early in San Quentin. Please keep all of his family and friends in your thoughts & prayers. WE LOVE YOU MIKE!
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Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
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Maryanne, My prayers are with you and your sons. Vaya con Dios Mike... 
[Edited on 11-8-2006 by Sallysouth]
[Edited on 11-8-2006 by Sallysouth]
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64584
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mike Humfreville, forever he will live in all of us
Kind, caring, fun, gruff, abrasive, interesting, entertaining, loving, giving... Mike Humfreville was that, and much more!
The day I met Mike and Mary Ann in early 2000 on the San Clemente Pier at a casual get-together of Internet Baja enthusiasts... Graham Mackintosh is
the red headed fellow.
In the following post, I have some photos of some of the fun times when I was with Mike...
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Janice
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Posts: 78
Registered: 10-19-2003
Location: Owens Valley/Alpine - California
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We have enjoyed Mike's writing on this board for the past few years...as was said earlier, his posts were one of the ones worth coming back for again
and again.
I recently purchased 3 books from Amazon to read on our upcoming trip to Baja beginning Monday...Log from the Sea of Cortez, Into a Desert Place, and
In the Shadow of the Volcano. Ironically, I received them in the mail today, the same day I heard the sad news. We will miss him and his eloquent
way with words.
Our condolences go out to his family.
Dance like no one is watching.
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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2000-2006 My times with Mike...
OCT. 2000 Viva Baja-1
FEB. 2001 Matomi Tour/ Sulfur Mine
MAY 2001 Viva Baja-2
JUL. 2001 Lost Mission Hunt/ Las Flores
NOV. 2001 BBBB-2 Guadalupe Canyon
FEB. 2002 Viva Baja-3
SEPT. 2002 BBBB-4 Cielito Lindo
FEB. 2003 Viva Baja-4
MAY 2003 Pyramid Book Signing-1
JUL. 2003 Camp Gecko (Yellowtail fishing with El Camote)
JAN. 2004 San Borja Tour/ Montevideo
FEB. 2004 Matomi Tour
APR. 2005 Pyramid Book Signing-3
OCT. 2005 In front of their new Baja Home
MAY 2006 Pyramid Book Signing-4
Mike will live forever in us... VAYA CON DIOS MI AMIGO!
[Edited on 11-8-2006 by David K]
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Bajadtodebone
Junior Nomad
Posts: 36
Registered: 1-8-2005
Location: Kingston Springs TN/Campo Gecko
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Mood: baja dreamin'
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Mike is Gone?
I am so sad to hear that we no longer have Mike with us but I am confident he is in a better place. He is the second of two true Baja characters this
year we have lsot this year. My condolances to Mary Ann and the family. I was in the middle of a series of U2U's with Mike and they abruptly
stopped....I wondered why. Our brief but enjoyable experiences with Mike at Campo Gecko are forever on our minds and he in our hearts. via condios
me amigo: 
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Bob H
Elite Nomad
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Registered: 8-19-2003
Location: San Diego
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David, that was great...... one of your photos was of Mike that I took in Feburary 2004 on the Matomi run....... Mike always came across so friendly
and warm. Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos.
Bob H
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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Bajalero
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Registered: 11-24-2003
Location: todos santos/ rcho san diego
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One last Sunset
Between the Burnt Rocks and the Softest Sand
What most see , He has felt and put into words
Vaya con Dios Miguel
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GeoRock
Nomad
Posts: 329
Registered: 3-7-2003
Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA
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MaryAnn, Kevin, and Mikey,
My heart is aching at my good buddy Mike's passing. Please let me know if there is anything I can do. You say the word and I'll be on my way to
bahia. Love you all, you are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Pete and Suzanne
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bajarich
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I didn't know Mike, but I enjoyed reading his many posts. He had the same love of Baja that many of us have. May he rest in peace in the place that
he loved so much. My prayers are with his family.
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Bajabus
Senior Nomad
Posts: 892
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: Elias Calles B.C.S. or NC USA
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Mood: My friends..it's good.
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Oh my...how sad indeed. I don't even know what to say. Just very very sad......
I have been reading mikes writings for many years, since the old board and like mentioned above recall his encouraging words at my pitiful attempts to
put down in words my Baja adventures. I surely will miss him and so will Baja.
Peace be with him and his family, how lucky we all are to have known him.
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
Dwight David Eisenhower
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