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bajacalifornian
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Baja Views From A Saddle Indian Art, Goat Cheese, Panoche and Other Sweets
Presented, are images documenting the collection of horses at a ranch east of La Purisima and their drive to a second ranch with improved feed and
water.
Twenty some kilometers east of San Isidro, search and collection for horses begins at the far reaches of Rancho Laguna, near a wall of Indian art.
Collection continued . . .
Mother and son
My Favorite Lady
Thinnest of the herd were singled out for the drive.
Marco, on the left is a riding mate from Loreto. Ricky his brother on right of image is owner of Rancho Laguna and the horses.
We will drive the horses to a goat ranch, Rancho Carrillo, owned by a sister and brother in law of Marco and Ricky.
An area laden with Baja history
On the road to Carambuche, our lay over point near San Isidro.
The gentleman on the white mule, traveling the same highway, caught us, visited and turned right toward his ranch up ahead.
Evening approaching
The Pilon de La Purisima ahead
Shift gears for a moment. The morning brought views of the Panoche processing area at our way station in Carambuche. Panoche is a Mexican candy.
Horses love it and cowboys too.
The brew pot
White sugar cane and the electric machine used to grind the cane. In San Jose de Comondu, panoche is still processed but using animals to power the
grinder.
These molds, made from heart wood of mesquite, are two hundred years old.
Fire hole under the brew pot
Lenia for the fire box
Panoche de Gajo, light in collor
Panoche narote, a darker candy, is skimmed from the top of the boiling mixture. That made from red cane is also dark.
Moving away from the candy and on the road again . . .
Ricky´s son will joins the ride this morning for an hour or so, then return for school
Headed for our section of the Camino Real, toward Purisima Viejo. Paso Hondo, San Jose and ultimately Mulege are ahead.
In the distance, on the left . . . the road traveled yesterday . . . on the right . . . the road to Comondu
Our Camino Real
Mother and daughter. We had two children with us . . . this 4 month old little girl or potranca. Also along, an eight month old potrio, a young man.
We turn left here at Purisima Vieja for our destination ranch, Rancho Carrillo, about 5 miles ahead.
Just out of Vieja, we pause for water at R. Toro. Many prospect for gold near and around here
Along this stretch, a horse was skirting us in the brush out to the side. The horse is Halcon or Falcon, a horse belonging to Marco that has been
running wild for some time in the mountains. To track him would require search of a vast area. He has come to us. Captured, he joins us for the
ride to the ranch.
Rancho Carrillo, our destination ranch
Post ride review.
A long way from city lights, the night outside is a magnified starry black.
Beginning now . . . with images of day 3, to follow include images of the ride to introduce new range and water to the new horses, breakfast, ongoing
production of goat cheese and final ride to various oasis's
In morning light, the Ford F 250 gas and electric commission
As horses and cattle struggle in this environment, goats thrive. Most ranches in these parts play a part in the goat cheese industry. Cheese is the
primary income.
As fish buyers visit individual fishermen, at their homes in the evening . . . say in Lopez Mateos, similar buyers take this mountain cheese to
markets well beyond Baja.
A goat ranch, morning always begins with milking
Coffee in the kitchen, and always, all day long
Morning awakening
Marco prepares Halcon, and exercises him
Indo sports the goat rancher´s saddle, a source of great kidding . . . for the cunado.
En route to new water and range with the horses
Missing yesterday, Ricky rejoins the ride today
New Digs
Back at the ranch, pork ribs are ready for breakfast. Pigs raised on goat milk make friggin´ tasty food
Shift gears again, back to our goat cheese . . .
Ten gallons of milk from the morning begins the process
Cheese prepared in previous days
occasional stirring continues through the next several hours
Fluid removed from the mix is fed to the pig.
This cheese processing continues as we remount, riding toward oasis after oasis on the ranch.
Limon Real . . . sweet!
Sucking the meat . . . garnished here with wild hierva buena
Papaya . . . crunchy. First papaya I ever really liked
Papaya tree overhead
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Ride about and final return to the ranch
back to the cheese . . . kneading continues and the addition of salt
Ready to form
Into the mold
Pressure is applied
Packing for home
My rides . . .
Azabache, days 1 and 3
Indio, day 2
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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David K
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Just so wonderful! Thank you!!
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Curt63
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Thanks for the glimpse into that way of life.
No worries
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Barry A.
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Incredible subject and photos----------this is what NOMADS is all about!!! (to me)
Wonderful!!!
Barry
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Paulina
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I say this EVERY TIME, but I am so envious of your experiences and ever so thankful for the time that you take to share them with us here.
What a treasured life your friends (and you) live, at least it seems so to me.
I love the photo of the horse jumping into the back of the truck. "Get in there!" It makes me laugh at the problems we have with gentling our horses
into and out of trailers that have been made specifically for them. If our horses only knew what their distant cousins have to endure they wouldn't
think twice about refusing to load up.
I never tire of your posts. Thank you again.
P>*)))>{
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Fernweh
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Thank you very much.
It is not everyday that we get exposed to this so different live.
I really appreciate your beautiful pictures and fitting descriptions.
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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man I love your posts...I'd say they are my favorites...your images tell the story...love your rides dude! I really look forward to your glimpses of
baja ranch life....keep em coming por favorcito...pendientes.
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goldhuntress
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Long time, I've missed your cool posts! Good to see your still livin' the life! Thanks for the report and photos, great as usual! I so love fresh goat
cheese!
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Mulegena
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oh, man, a million thanks for such a tremendous kick-ass post! Well Done!!
I love going up into the mountains to the ranchos and you've documented the true-to-life common experience there that takes ya' back, 'way back, to
another time and place and yet its real, its now 21st century Baja. Yes, its rare, seen and experienced by only a few and so, so precious.
We traveled that very route only a couple months ago out to visit a cousin who had to up and change their goat ranch because of the lack of water
where they had been. We then took the Camino Real/Guajademi road back to Mulege.
Your post makes me grateful for the opportunity I have to be up there with these good and hard-working hardy people, and you've illustrated the rancho
life with genuine, first-hand integrity.
"Raise your words, not your voice. It's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." ~Rumi
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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Cypress
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bajacalifornian, Thanks.
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Hook
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This is the best pictorial on Baja I can ever remember on Nomads. What fantastic images! What wonderful economy in words.
Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time and energy to post this, bajacalifornian.
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tehag
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Thank you
for a wonderful post.
Certainty is the child of ignorance, knowledge is the mother of doubt. Question everything!
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vandenberg
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Thanks a bunch.
One of the best posts ever.
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bajadogs
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Agreed, one of the best posts ever. Thank you Bajacalifornian!
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Loved watching the story! Excellent!
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KASHEYDOG
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Mood: SO MANY TACOS, SO LITTLE TIME... Gotta Go, See ya there....
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WOW !!!!! Great post. Thanks.......
Don\'t mess with the old dog...... Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery! Brilliance only comes with age and
experience..... .... ....
Are you getting the most out of life OR is life getting the most out of you ??
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BajaBlanca
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spellbinding .... thanks for sharing a most incredible glimpse into ranch life.
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Paula
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Thanks, Jeff! This is the best one ever!
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watizname
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Very cool post.
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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danaeb
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Beautiful post! I'm sure I'm not alone in experiencing a bit of envy.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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