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Phil S
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Registered: 10-28-2003
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Mood: After 34 years. Still in love w/ my wife
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I was running my own property/casualty insurance company in a small town in Oregon. Hadn't discovered Baja yet, and was about to start taking flying
lessons. And ten years later, I did descover Rattlesnake Beach at Puerto Escondido where my brother & I flew down to see what the heck our
cousin saw in Baja that he'd spend the winters down there on the beach in his airstream???? Wow!!!! We were hooked the minute we stepped off the
airplane at Loreto. And 25 years later, I'm still driving to Loreto & Cabo. viva La Mexico
[Edited on 10-22-2011 by Phil S]
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stimbo
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Location: Crowley Lake, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The 60's and 70's were great times to discover Baja. There were far fewer campos so more of us may have been at the same place on any given holiday.
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Agreed, great times in Baja.... I finished up with college in 1975 but had about 10 years of Baja explorations under my belt by then. My dad loved to
fish so I became a willing accomplice for his adventures south of the border. One of the highlights was our drive to Gonzaga Bay on the old road in
the 60's. I still remember the sounds of our truck as it bounced and bottomed out on that road. Just imagine the grinding of metal to stone, the old
Dodge screaming for mercy.
DK, I can almost guarantee we crossed paths many times down there. Good times back then, AND, good times now. My kids are seasoned Baja vets now, from
their days of sandy diapers on the beach to now, college kids fishing for dorado on the Sea of Cortez. We've come full circle. Thanks dad!
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David K
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Posts: 64755
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share. |
Buy one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/42qcmkp
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David K
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Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share. |
Buy one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/42qcmkp |
Thanks Dennis, I will ask Santa!
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JZ
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Registered: 10-3-2003
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1st or 2nd grade in Ohio. Had never seen a Mexican in my life, not in person anyway, and maybe not even on TV outside of Speedy Gonzalez....
First trip to MX was 1981 to TJ and Rosarito with my parents when we were visiting my sister who lived in Long Beach.
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EnsenadaDr
Banned
Posts: 5027
Registered: 9-12-2011
Location: Baja California
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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Freezing my sombrero off in Connecticut...thank God for the wonderful weather we have in Baja California!!
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windgrrl
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Pump jockey at the Gulf highway station. Graduated from high school. Got married. Never looked back.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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durrelllrobert
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Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
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'75 was the year I transferred from the NAWC at China Lake, in the dry Mojave desert, to NAVSEA in Washington DC with cold winters and humid summers.
Bob Durrell
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durrelllrobert
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Location: Punta Banda BC
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JZ
1st or 2nd grade in Ohio. Had never seen a Mexican in my life, not in person anyway, and maybe not even on TV outside of Speedy Gonzalez....
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how about the Cisco Kid and Poncho?
Bob Durrell
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yellowklr
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Being a 2 yr old living by San Diego State
Derek
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24baja
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Posts: 951
Registered: 2-3-2009
Location: Grants Pass Oregon/Bahia de Los Angeles
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I was a sophmore in high school taking a spanish class and baja was not even a blip on my horizon. My husband was in singapore in middle school.
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monoloco
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Registered: 7-13-2009
Location: Pescadero BCS
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Commercial fishing in Alaska in the summer and being a ski bum in Oregon all winter.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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Heather
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Getting ready to celebrate the bicentennial in Boston...where my USMC dad had been on recruiting duty for 6 years...moved to O'side, CA the next year
for junior high. My dad was afraid to cross the border, guess he'd heard too many stories about Marines doing stupid stuff and getting locked up
down there.
Other than a couple of trips with high school and college friends in the 80's,
I didn't discover Baja until Alaska Airlines started flying to Cabo in the late 80's/ early 90's.
My sis and her Alaska Air buddies consider themselves the original Cabo Bimbos!
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MMc
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Registered: 6-29-2011
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This is a 2011 post!!!!! let's move on!!!!! I think I was doing the first trip of Europe, who care's it was a life time ago. Grow up and move past the
BS of your life....... maps and gps points to follow.
This is like when I show up to a point or surf break and these guys are doing the little roster dance... I been coming here since 19?? and I am all
that and a bag of chips.
[Edited on 5-18-2014 by MMc]
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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bajalearner
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Registered: 8-24-2010
Location: Tijuana
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In 75, my second year of college, I moved from San Francisco CA to San Diego because I liked the Mexican influence in SD. SF has many cultures of
course, but the weather, architecture girls and other MX cultural influences were attractive to me. I occasionally visited south of the border for
fun when my school and job allowed.
I grew up in San Francisco but went to high school in Casper WY.
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BajaBoomerBabe
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Posts: 47
Registered: 5-31-2008
Location: Kelowna, B.C & San Jose del Cabo, BCS
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Mood: Getting excited about driving down Baja!
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I was building my house in Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico. Sleepy, little fishing village of 300 people, no cars, no phones, no electricity! A few
Californian ex-pats and a sprinkling of Canadians (me, being one). Fishing every day. Loved it! Still love Mexico but living in Los Cabos now. 
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volcano
Nomad
Posts: 348
Registered: 3-5-2007
Location: Cave Junction, Oregon and Boca Del Salado area, Ea
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Mood: always pining to be there
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heading for Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua for 6 months with boyfriend after graduating from college............ all on $1200
between the 2 of us, and a small pickup with shell.....best thing we ever did for ourselves
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Marc
Ultra Nomad
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Registered: 5-15-2010
Location: San Francisco & Palm Springs
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I was 34 and in the best shape of my life.
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Barry A.
Select Nomad
Posts: 10007
Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
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In '75 I was the first Chief Ranger for BLM in El Centro, CA responsible for BLM lands in Imperial, San Diego, and Riverside Counties and the
implementation of the new BLM "Desert Program" for the CA Desert.
I escaped to Baja many times during those years, before and after then.
Barry
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