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zforbes
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Registered: 4-11-2005
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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What's in a name?
I'm curious how you chose your Baja Nomad board name. My own, zforbes, reflects my first name initial and last name -- pretty prosaic. Others are more
creative. I imagine there is a story behind many of the names. Let's hear it! If you had it to do overr again, would you change it? Zoe
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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Just the opposite of you... I use my first name and last name initial!
In high school, the kids called me 'Baja'... Maybe because I published two Baja guidebooks while in high school? 
My C.B. handle was 'The Baja' or just 'Baja'... Back in the 1970's, too!
I figured a Baja forum would already be full of Baja nuts like me, so there would be nothing unique about having 'Baja' as a handle or attached to my
name, like 'Baja Dave'.
Thanks, and happy New Year!
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Gypsy Jan
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OK, Since You Asked (Warning - Long)
Gypsy Jan
Jan is the nickname my late mother gave me.
The “Gypsy” part of my handle is in honor of a late friend, Mark Cohen. He graduated from Cornell in the ‘60s with an engineering degree and moved to
UC Berkley for his upper graduate work. Well, he got a taste of the counterculture and, as they say (whoever they are), the rest was history. This
buttoned down kid from a preppy background (think early Willie Nelson) “tuned in, turned on, and dropped out” to quote the also late Dr. Timothy
Leary, a family acquaintance of ours.
Mark spent the rest of his life in the biker culture. He didn’t join a club and never wore colors, unless you count his love for tie-dyed T-shirts
and psychedelic-colored suspenders. In fact, he was well regarded by all the clubs and was frequently consulted as a neutral party for negotiating
disagreements between them. (The Hell’s Angels and Mongols in particular.)
He made his living selling beads, crystals and other New Age knickknacks at swap meets and biker gatherings and doing various odd jobs. He wrote a
regularly featured column for one of the major biker magazines under the name of “Divine Gypsy”.
His only sister never stopped loving him, even after the rest of the family turned away. This very proper ADA in a very conservative, upscale
community always had him over for family celebrations and for the holidays; she just didn’t bring him to to social events that involved her or her
husband’s business contacts. He was amused by this, and just kept on being himself. At one holiday dinner, he kept the family enthralled with
stories about his adventures, which included his visits to our home in Baja. He told his family that when he died, he wanted to be reincarnated as
one of our dogs.
When he passed, over six hundred people attended the funeral. It was a full-on biker’s turnout and the local police department was out in force (but
trying to look low key) on the various roads approaching the funeral home.
His sister sent us a small box containing a portion of his ashes, because, as she said, “Mark told me he wanted to leave a part of himself in Baja.”
[Edited on 12-31-2009 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Donjulio
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Need I say more?
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cabobaja
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Registered: 9-19-2006
Location: South \"O\", Elias Calles, BCS
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Cabo is my 12 year old son. He was born in Cabo San Lucas.
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Bajahowodd
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Interesting. It reminds me of the difference in languages. You named your son "Cape"? Do you live in Body of Christ, Texas?
[Edited on 12-31-2009 by Bajahowodd]
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The Gull
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Location: Rancho Descanso, BCN
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My name
It comes from the sea bird which can be viewed along the coast.
I wish I could change my name to Marla Daily, so I could be the person in the world with the most valued opinion, especially when making racist
remarks.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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Location: Southern California
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Elinvesti8: The Investigator
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Iflyfish
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Iflyfish cause I flyfish
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vandenberg
Elite Nomad
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Registered: 6-21-2005
Location: Nopolo
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Vandenberg 
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Paula
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Paula is my name.
But I think I'd rather be Rosa del Desierto...
or maybe Maria de las Montañas
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zforbes
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Registered: 4-11-2005
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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Jan, I found your post very touching. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Gull, I had hoped you would respond. What I wanted to know was why you chose Gull rather than Pelican, for example, or Tern or Sandpiper. What makes
gulls the birds that attract you?
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backninedan
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Used to play a lot of golf and tended to do well on the backnine holes when more money was on the line.
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Pappy Jon
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Location: Wrong side of the Continental divide.
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Pappy Jon ...
Well Jon is my name. I would have just used Pappy, but it was taken.
Pappy is what my late wife's grand kids call me. Back when her son, Charles, was pregnant my friends were giving me a hard time because I refused to
be called "grandpa," or what ever. Charles came from a previous marriage and I was significantly younger than my wife.
Anyway, a buddy snickered once and called me Pappy. It stuck. I've gone by that ever since.
"The association of flowers and warm-blooded love is more than a romantic convention; it is based upon one of the great advances in the evolution
of life." Ed Abbey
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bajamedic
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Registered: 12-5-2008
Location: Northern California
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Bajamedic: I am a Mobil Intensive Care Paramedic that has been in love with Baja since my first visit 43 years ago. JH
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capt. mike
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Registered: 11-26-2002
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"Back when her son, Charles, was pregnant "
wow!! that could be a 1st.
you need to contact Ripley's!
i am capt. mike
i am not a REAL capt.
i just play one on baja TV.
one of my flying buddies promoted me to Col. a few years ago. He gave me a hat.
gotta go..... i need to put some M&Ms on lay-a-way at Target later today.
it is very similar to Capt. Ron from the movie.
if you fly you have to sign a waiver...... 
is there any wine left?
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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Mexicorn
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Mexicorn Because I love Mexico and I'm quite a cornball I'm sure nobody noticed-
Also when I was a kid I loved to eat mexicorn!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
Some that might be missed |
Oh Lord. I forgot about this one. Must have been a long day at Sharky's.
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"My real name is Buelah but, I like DENNIS better. I'm a huge Black Chinese woman who cooks churros at the Bufadora mall and have to be ingognito
'cause I don't have papers. Well...I have some papers but, not the right kind. I think they're newspapers. Not sure.
Anyway, c'mon out to the Buf and I'll split a churro with you.....right after you pay for it."
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Bajahowodd
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Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisa_Hayes
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zforbes
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Thanks for that -- lots of good stories. Sorry I missed your thread the first time around!
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