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[*] posted on 11-22-2013 at 03:04 PM


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Surdoc Stan and Bernie!


Here are some more images of Benie Swaim (Baja Bernie) to add to the one I posted above with the late 'Herb' of Baja Nomad...

2007 (Pyramid Resort Book Signing #5):


2008 (Pyramid Resort Book Signing #6):


Bernie's Books:








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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 07:07 AM


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J.L. Terry from San Francisquito. Retired San Diego firefighter.

Anyone ever meet him?


Brewer, I missed this when you posted it. Yes, JL was a friend of mine and we were down there with him when he passed. It was a nightmare and a great loss...

And of course, Curt! I know I have more photos somewhere, but found this one of him:





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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 09:09 AM


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I have met J L Terry if he was the guy that lived more or less full time in
that perfect little foul weather hide out of a cove along side the navy drug patrol. He had his
own floating dock there, if thats the same guy.


That was him, J L Terry. Died at 64, damn young.
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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 09:15 AM


Anybody remember Jack Devine, the bounty hunter who was a regular at San Francisquito? He was quite a guy!



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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 09:47 AM
Jack


[Edited on 12-14-2013 by desertcpl]

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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 10:54 AM


desertcpl I remember you and I discussed Jack a while ago. I used to really enjoy his stories, and somehow with him you got the feeling they were TRUE. Sorry I spelled his name wrong :)



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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 10:57 AM


yes Jack was full of life, he was very entertaining chap

also very kind and generous,, very big heart
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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 12:39 PM


My early years in Baja were spent exclusively chasing billfish on the East Cape. My first
and favorite skipper was Manuel Araiza Cota. A great friendly man with a wonderful wife and family. There is a picture of him in group in Gene Kira's
The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez
Whenever you gather by campfire or hearth lift a glass To Absent Friends.

[Edited on 12-14-2013 by vacaenbaja]
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[*] posted on 12-14-2013 at 01:53 PM


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My early years in Baja were spent exclusively chasing billfish on the East Cape. My first
and favorite skipper was Manuel Araiza Cota. A great friendly man with a wonderful wife and family. There is a picture of him in group in Gene Kira's
The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez
Whenever you gather by campfire or hearth lift a glass To Absent Friends.

[Edited on 12-14-2013 by vacaenbaja]


What page... and I will show it here...




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[*] posted on 12-19-2013 at 11:30 AM
Among the Missing, but found to be still Around


Thanks to an L.A. Times A-1 article this morning, I find that Chuck Cecil is, at 90 (contrary to what I'd thought), still kicking.

His a.m. program beginning in 1956 on KFI, "The Swinging Years", was something I tried never to miss in those youthful days.

Living in Ventura with his wife, he STILL produces the syndicated show each week.

Unfortunately, it doesn't air where I am.
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[*] posted on 12-19-2013 at 11:38 AM


Tony Reyes Sr. even though is was never a BajaNomad and I don't think Tony Jr. is either. Wazup with that?



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[*] posted on 12-19-2013 at 11:51 AM


Dee Cupz from anthony's. think she back to sonora. ;)
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[*] posted on 12-19-2013 at 11:53 AM


Mom's B-day was Dec 8
Granny's Bday was Dec 2

I REALLY miss them.....




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[*] posted on 12-23-2013 at 04:55 PM


Cork Pepper.
The stories she would tell me of her explorations in Baja got me interested and my fishing trips got me hooked.




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[*] posted on 12-23-2013 at 05:13 PM
Hi There, MrBillM


This is for you - listen to him online.

http://tunein.com/radio/Swingin-Years-p2100/

Merry Christmas!




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[*] posted on 12-23-2013 at 11:55 PM


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Cork Pepper.
The stories she would tell me of her explorations in Baja got me interested and my fishing trips got me hooked.


Hi 'wetto'... welcome to Nomad... Sounds like you knew her, too? I was very lucky to get to know here and get to share her collections and hope to inspire Baja/desert adventures as she did with me! Re-finding her lost mission in 2009 south of L.A. Bay was a great moment for me... Now I am on a hunt for another mystery she wrote about often, the Lost Diaz Grave!

She added an 'e' to 'Cork' so it would seem more feminine, she told me (Corke)... Since most knew here as Choral, I don't usually use her nick name here... She autographed books as Corke however...




A GREAT human that loved the desert and Baja... I am honored to have her collections to share with other desert and Baja fans.
See the web page I made to show some of here photos from the '60's: http://choralpepper.com

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Choral Pepper listening to one of Erle Stanley Gardner's great campfire stories in Baja.



Choral talking with San Ignacio's Frank Fischer and E.S. Gardner ('Uncle Erle').




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[*] posted on 12-24-2013 at 11:27 AM


Nobody has mentioned Chopy (Cornell Crawford)
:?:




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[*] posted on 12-24-2013 at 11:51 AM


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Nobody has mentioned Chopy (Cornell Crawford)
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You just did! Chopy was known as ESL (El Surfo Loco) before 'Chopy Chavez'... He was killed near San Jose del Cabo just months after we met him at BBBB-4. Chopy was a young, healthy Mexican citizen born to Americans living in Baja, developing hotels in Los Cabos. I think the Finisterra was one? His ongoing battle was with squatters on his land in Cabo Pulmo and corruption in the government of Baja California Sur.

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[*] posted on 12-24-2013 at 12:10 PM


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Mike Humfreville. He was old school baja and loved the land about as much as anyone.


I bought Mike's book at the Discover Baja's Christmas party and had him sign it. The book went to my mother and got left with my sister in Ventura Co..

I did not get to read it for several months. When I did, he had me blubbering on the first few pages at his view of life and family and I remember thinking..."Mike, you're such a putz" (a term of endearment that was a joke at the time) I made a mental note to tell him I had enjoyed his book...finally.

When I got back to the board on Monday, I learned he was gone. I had started his book on the day he died...Why that day? I still get chills thinking about it.

I miss him.




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[*] posted on 3-27-2020 at 11:29 AM


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A bit of desperate resurrection ?




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