David K
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Location: San Diego County
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Blast from the past: BBBB-1 in 2001.
Anyone here (besides me) attended M's (Michelle's) first group get together. I recall 'Paulina', 'Santiago', and others were there, including Earle
('fang' on Nomad) and Eric of Amigos de Baja... This was back in the Amigos de Baja days, before Nomad replaced Amigos as our forum. Any others who
are lurkers only now? Michelle, jeans, David Eidell, and others, have dropped off the radar...
Doing some spring cleaning, I found this bumper sticker:
The event was at Cielito Lindo (San Quintín south) and I was driving the Viva Baja Van on its test run as a tour business... after the BBBB-1, we
continued on to Santa Ynez, Tinaja de Yubay, L.A. Bay, a lost mission search, Gonzaga Bay, and home. Here is my photo album of that trip: https://vivabaja.com/van1/
The video from the event and our tour after, made by El Camote: https://vimeo.com/389613694 (miss Neal Johns!)
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Vince
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Thanks, David. I enjoy viewing your old photos as usual. Fun times!
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bajatrailrider
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Mood: Happy
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Hey David speaking of Cielito Lindo did they ever reopen ?
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David K
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When did they close? I was last there in 2017 and it was open.
Hope all is well with you, Larry!
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David K
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Glad you enjoy them!
See all my trip photos at www.vivabaja.com in the photographs section (1965 -2022). Also, I have a historic photos section going back over 100 years.
Always great to hear from you! I hope your son remembered to give you the Baja Atlas I left with him, for you! 😊
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Ken Cooke
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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I never made it, but I wanted to do more Baja trips at the time.
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Paulina
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Time flies, doesn’t it?
P>*)))>{
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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It is a little disappointing that nobody organizes get-togethers anymore... Viva Baja, BBBB, Pyramid Resort, Baja-Rosario... all were in the first
decade of the 21st century.
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SFandH
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What was the Amigos de Baja website address? Anybody know?
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David K
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Off the top of my head, www.bajanet.com
You can read some of Amigos preserved on the wayback machine. It ended in 2003, a year after Nomad began. Eric and Earle were relived! They are here
and Earle's Nomad handle is 'fang'.
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JZ
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Amigos was the first Baja forum I posted on.
I had never been past Ensenada in Baja and never to the Sea of Cortez before. Just looked at a map with my buddy over a few beers and we decided to
try to go from San Felipe to Santa Rosalia and across to San Carlos on the mainland. Then back.
I found the forum while doing some research for the trip. How to get gas, etc.
We made it about 300 miles down to Santa Rosalia. We were so dumb to try it during the winter when the NW winds can get wicked and blow for days. I
had a ton of experience boating in the Pacific, so I wrongly assumed the SoC would be a cake walk comparatively.
Once we got to SR it blew 30+ mph for 5 days and I ended up paying a Mexican to take me back to SF in his little Datsun pickup to get my
truck/trailer. Drove all night to border and back. Hauled a 33 foot, 10 foot beam boat up MX 1 with my tail between my legs.
We came back in May a lot more prepared and made it from SF to SC in 3 days. Ending up building a house in San Carlos and spending 10 years boating
that area with occasional trips over to Baja (Loreto and La Paz.)
Pic from the May trip.
[Edited on 8-18-2025 by JZ]
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