David K
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An online version of the Baja Bound Road Guide for your interest:
My (online edition) Baja Bound Road Guide is ready for you!
Page numbers have been added to make finding content easier.
My hope still is that there will be a printed edition!
https://vivabaja.com/baja-bound-road-guide/
Sample page:
Shaking Coco's hand is our very own 'TMW' (Tom or 'TW') in 2022.
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David K
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The above two samples are from the San Felipe to Laguna Chapala Road Log (Log 9) that begins on page 39.
As you can see, I have updated the original 2018 work to include my 2022 trip through here. More recent changes are on the first page.
I can continue to note changes that way.
Please let me know of any you found. I do hope to check out most of Highway 5 myself again, soon!
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A giant "attaboy" to you! Nice work.
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David K
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Thank you so much!
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Hi David - For publishing have you tried Iuniverse - for a onetime fee they publish and print only on demand and send out copies when requested -
awesome place if they are still in business -
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Quote: Originally posted by marv sherrill  | | Hi David - For publishing have you tried Iuniverse - for a onetime fee they publish and print only on demand and send out copies when requested -
awesome place if they are still in business - |
How great to hear from you!
Are you guys still on the beach, in Baja?
Thanks for the advice... sounds like what Amazon offers, too... Print on demand. Our own Nomad 'bajaric' published his neat gold mining book using
Amazon...
As for my Road Guide, I made it as a thank you for Baja Bound Insurance after they sponsored my travels in 2017 & 2018, to create an interactive
map: https://www.bajabound.com/map/
Making a road log and road maps during all that driving just was natural for me! Baja Bound was eager to print it with help from another source to
make it look 'spiffy'! Sadly, Covid, plus this fellow not doing the job, just sidelined the guide for too long. All my work on it was just going to
waste... and that is when I finally decided to share the whole of my work for all you Baja fans to enjoy, or use. I had shared parts of it and all the
maps already... but this year, 6 after I had originally finished it, I made an online version with updates.
They still can publish a book version to sell or hand out, if they want... I am just not going to do it. You see, getting old kind-of sucks... no more
trips to Baja multiple times a year, if at all... and lack of energy on many things, ha!
My 'Baja California Land of Missions' was a huge success, and self-published... and still sold while the last printing (2024) copies lasts! That was
very rewarding and gave me a chance to share more Baja as I was invited to guide TV shows and speak briefly on a film, in theatres.
I will continue to write for Baja Bound's monthly Bulletin as long as I have new things to write about... 115 articles published, so far! Here they
are (linked) in categorized groups: https://vivabaja.com/baja-travel-adventures/
Thanks again, Marv!
If you do Facebook, join my two groups (about 9,000 members, each)!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vivabaja
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bajamissions
[Edited on 5-1-2025 by David K]
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advrider
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Could this be pinned at the top of one of the threads? Nice work.
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David K
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Thank you very much!
It is linked at the top of www.VivaBaja.com under What's New at VivaBaja:
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You put a lot of work in to that.
And thanks for the plug. My book, The Gold of Northern Baja, was self-published on Kindle Direct Publishing, a subsidiary of Amazon. The process is
a bit of a learning curve, but not impossible. They provide a template, and you cut and paste your book into the template one chapter at a time. I
used Word but there are different formats. Then you create a cover, specify the dimensions, a viola, your book is ready to print a test copy. I did
have a few issues with getting the footnotes on the bottom of the page, and paragraph breaks at the top of the page instead of the bottom of the
previous page but it came out OK.
Its a nice deal because you do not have to do anything, when someone orders one Amazon prints it, ships it, and 60 days later deposits about 1/3 of
the list price into your bank account. That is why Jeff Bezos has a big yacht and I drive around Baja in a f150 work truck.
Your travel guide would probably have a much larger market than my little book about gold in Baja, you should try and figure out how to do the print
on demand thing and start selling it.
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David K
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Thanks, Ric.
I will wait to hear if Baja Bound is no longer interested in printing them before pursuing your suggestion.
I am happily retired from anything that resembles work. I hope you are well!
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Your guide looks great can't wait to get one - Yes, we are still in BOLA - heading down in a few weeks - Marv
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David K
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Thanks, Marv. Please enjoy this online version. I don't have high expectations of it being printed... Why I shared all my work on it this past month.
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