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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:34 PM
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First trip to observatory, October, 1972

I loved my dad for bringing me to Baja just to see where the dirt road goes! No surf fishing up here at 8,000'.



Diablo mountain is next to my head... I am 15 years old here.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:38 PM


July, 1973... Baja Highway under construction at Laguna Chapala... My dad's Ford LTD wagon plows through the Chapala dust at the detour route at the base of the new road bed (where I am standing to take the photo).

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:39 PM


On the new Baja Highway in the Chapala Valley!

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:41 PM


I am congratulating my dad for making it through the Chapala dust! I am wearing a Dick Cepek 'Baja Proven' tee shirt, with art work by Dave Deal (who I will meet 30 years later!)...

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:47 PM
GREAT PHOTOS, DAVID-----


Fun stuff!!!! Look at that hair-----------and waist line---------

:lol::lol::lol:
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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:47 PM


Mom at the view point... We wouldn't reach any pavement until Punta Prieta, and then it was in sections, with miles awaiting asphalt until about Villa Jesus Maria... then solid pavement the rest of the way. There was no new roadbed between Agua Dulce and Laguna Chapala that trip, so we drove on the old Baja main road for many miles, in the Country Squire station wagon! That was when FORD was built tough! Well, at least my mom and dad was!

This is El Portezuelo on the '62 map, below...

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:49 PM


Ramon always could find the dorado! Mom caught a beauty!



Ramon Villalejo and his dad, at Juncalito near Puerto Escondido... A shark fisherman we hired to take us sport fishing.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:50 PM


Sunrise at Juncalito made a beautiful rainbow...

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:51 PM
David-----


----it is good to see you finally giving FORDs their due.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:52 PM


Easter Vacation, 1974 was my first trip without parents... I was 16 and this was my dune buggy on the Gonzaga Grades south of Puertecitos...

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 05:54 PM


Mision San Fernando, in '74 is where my friend and I camped the first night on that trip.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:02 PM
Agua de Mezquitito in 1974


Located between El Huerfanito and Gonzaga Bay...





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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:11 PM


My second tour of Baja for Easter of 1975 was with two other vehicles who heard about me over the CB radio (what we did before the Internet) and asked to follow along...

We went to Mision San Fernando, El Marmol, Calamajue Canyon, Gonzaga Bay, Nuevo Mazatlan over that week...

The yellow 4WD Ford you see in this photo had the front wheel/tire come completely off coming out of El Marmol, on the little used south road.

The guys in the Baja Bug drove all the way back to San Diego for replacement parts and 2 days later the truck was moving again...

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:13 PM


Mision San Fernando in 1975.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:15 PM


My buggy next to an older buggy... on the south road out of El Marmol...





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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:21 PM
1975 & 1976


In 1975, I retired my dune buggy when dad surprised me with a new Jeep Cherokee Chief (early graduation present)...

Here it is going between Diablo Dry Lake and San Felipe, during the Baja 1000...



After my high school graduation, my girlfriend and I along with my parents went to Puerto Escondido and L.A. Bay...

We used two cars, my parents in their wagon and my girlfriend and I in my Jeep. We also went up to Mision San Javier...

Here's the roof of San Javier and mom...


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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:23 PM


another... looking the other direction and my girlfriend posing.

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:27 PM


At L.A. Bay on that '76 trip... My girfriend Lynne, shaggy hair me, and mom, watching the fishermen cleaning their catch.





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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:31 PM


Lynne and my mom at El Marmol graveyard

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[*] posted on 3-9-2007 at 06:40 PM


One more from '76 with me in the picture ...

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