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Pompano
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THE INFERNAL INFIERNO - A KILLER
Who hasn't got a scary story about this steep grade just north of Santa Rosalia? It's STEEP, FULL OF SHARP
CURVES, AND...STEEP!
Here's what happened to us yesterday:
At that same moment during one of Zulema's seances in Mulege...
A short memorial service will be held at the Mulege lighthouse baithole at dawn tomorrow. Very short service, cuz I will be after
some forktails right quick....and would appreciate it if you would donate a half-dozen big-eyes in loving memory of the mutts.
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Edit by the lowest common denominator. I've learned to not sweat the petty things, and not pet the sweaty things.
[Edited on 12-21-2009 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Lauriboats
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Rogerrrrrrrrrr? You are so crazy.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lauriboats
Rogerrrrrrrrrr? You are so crazy. |
But it's a really good kind of crazy !  
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KAT54
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Can you say Disrespectful?
You know that is someones grave?
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motoged
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Hhhmmmmmm???? Something fishy here...????
The mutts were in a red chaise-lounge at first....and then were out of the green one (post mortem pic) ....are those yappy little darlings fussy about
their decor colors.....??????  
Don't believe everything you think....
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by KAT54
Can you say Disrespectful?
You know that is someones grave? |
Surely that is just a marker and not a grave? But now that you mention it, do the same social mores and customs that apply to cemeteries and graves
also apply to markers? What are the names of these roadside memorials?
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LaTijereta
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Have traveled "Infierno Grade" at night..
Not a good choice at times
But I am still with you..We have a great view up front
Looking forward to the end of this trip....
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin (1759)
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BornFisher
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Hey that almost looks like me, traveling with an old XM boombox, and dog. Except my motor home is a 19'Roadtrek, I just have one dog and I usually
leave my wife at home because she makes me stay in motels!
Good luck on those forkies, and thanks for all the road trip reports!
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Curt63
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C'mon Roger, Nikki and Nadi are waiting for the rest of the saga (like Woody and I waiting for seawall photos)
No worries
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bkbend
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Some interesting things happen on that grade. The truck in the uphill lane had run out of fuel and was siphoning from the truck in the downhill lane.
There was enough of a pullout for traffic to get around, although it did take a bit of work for that truck to make it.
[Edited on 12-22-2009 by bkbend]
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noproblemo2
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We lost many a mirrors on our RV on that road!!!! Sounds like a gun blasting as the glass shatters.... First time is the scariest
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vgabndo
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It worked out OK, but I kind of wish I didn't have a story of the parachute grade. I had the '78 Ford half ton bubble top camper I drove to Central
America towing a very short coupled utility trailer made out of a Datsun 620 bed with two full tanks of gas from the station on the highway in Mulege.
We made it up at least half the grade before the power started dropping off, and the tell-tale "starved for fuel" symptoms had my heart in my throat.
We continued to slow as I downshifted one gear after another until we arrived at the little turn out straight ahead next to the broken boulders in
Pompano's third "Here we go" picture. In the end I wound up jack knifed into both lanes out of sight from above and below in the invisible part of
Pomp's pic. I got my triangles out up hill just as the first big rig was arriving. Cathy blocked traffic from below. and one of the first vehicles to
come up hill was an empty F-350 Diesel who yanked us out of our predicament and to the top of the hill. It was very exposed there! Then I made a bad
diagnostic call when I got good flow from the fuel pump with the line off the carb, I determined that it must be the carb that was clogged up. Cathy
acknowledges being a bid concerned when I arrived at the camper with a big piece of scrap cardboard and stripped-down the four-barrel (for the first
time). I put it all back together and we were on the flats for half an hour before the same thing brought us to a halt. THIS time I was smart enough
to look at the farmland that was living where the gasoline in my fuel filters should have been. Two spares handy and a lesson learned. It took a while
to get all the mud out of those tanks. It is a LONG way between turn-outs on that grade. I approach it with respect no matter what I'm driving.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Mexray
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Ah yes, that wonderful Cuesta...
...a bunch a years ago, a buddy and I were on a road trip south in my old VW bus when we started down 'the Grade'...
As we came to the curve at the far end of your 'Here we go..." picture, we found a local family of five in a Chevy sedan that had just swapped ends
and had their rear bumper hooked on top of the outward bulging guard rail!!!
We jumped out and somehow managed to lift the bumper free before another 'hot shot' came around the curve to wipe us all out...
I seem to remember La Senora was rather upset with her hubby, but I don't think he spilled a drop of his Tecate...!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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noproblemo2
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We could call this the curve tales, anyone who has been there has them I'm sure, once you get thru that stretch you can actually start to breathe
again
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longlegsinlapaz
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Pompano, you're very creative....terrible ....but in a creative way!
Do the Co-pilot, Jazzy & Dexter KNOW you killed them off in cyber-space?
We better be seeing pics of Jazzy & Dexter with tell-tale Rice Krispy crumbs on their adorable little mugs & opening their Christmas presents
here soon!
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Pompano
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PRESTO!
| Quote: | Originally posted by longlegsinlapaz
Pompano, you're very creative....terrible....but in a creative way!
Do the Co-pilot, Jazzy & Dexter KNOW you killed them off in cyber-space?
We better be seeing pics of Jazzy & Dexter with tell-tale Rice Krispy crumbs on their adorable little mugs & opening their Christmas presents
here soon! |
Well, longlegged one, to tell the truth, I thought they were both 'goners' for sure. They were last seen disappearing over the edge of El Diablo
grade.
But early this morning I heard munching sounds coming from the front room. They had obviously landed like cats..and then homed in on the Rice Krispie
treats.
And while being adorable, they need a bath today...lotsa crumbs on mugs. 
[Edited on 12-22-2009 by Pompano]
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ELINVESTIG8R
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longlegsinlapaz
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Well, that's a huge relief! Thanks for visible proof....Oh
wait! How do we know that pic isn't from Christmas of 2008? 
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by longlegsinlapaz
Well, that's a huge relief! Thanks for visible proof....Oh
wait! How do we know that pic isn't from Christmas of 2008? |
Longlegs...you missed the date on the cereal box.
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longlegsinlapaz
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Nice try, Pinocchio!
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