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motoged
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Pack w/ 2 Cameras lost....Loreto
Well, the day started well....a trip up to San Javier to check out the road to Comondu.
20 minutes into the Comondu road and I realize I left my Camel Back type backpack on the side of the road where I stopped just off the highway at the
vacant buildings just east of Del Borracho bar.
I raced back to find my worst fear confirmed....perdito bolsita  
It contained two Panasonic point and shoot cameras with three weeks of Baja pics....that is the real loss.
It is a grey pack with some other far less valuable stuff.
Que lastima
No identification in the bag... (not Camel Back brand...Costco version)
Don't believe everything you think....
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woody with a view
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bummer!
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David K
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Oh Ged, major bummer... I am so sorry!!!
Go back and re-do the trip!!! 
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ligui
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Get in touch with Lynn Hamman at lynnhamman@yahoo.com, she has a loreto news letter that alot of locals and expats read . Many found and lost items
have been recovered .
 Hope you get them back
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motoged
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Ligui,
Thanks for the tip....I just sent Lynn an e-mail.
I am doubtful they will reappear in my life, but there is always hope !
Such a moment of carelessness can be such a bother...as I had captured a lot of memorable images....at least my "memory" is somewhat intact regarding
those images....now if I can be more diligent departing each stop.
Don't believe everything you think....
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Mula
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Also, MotoGed - did you stop and ask at Del Borracho if they had by chance been turned in?
Once when I left my purse in a restaurant - years ago - in Loreto, I hired one of the microphone announcement cars and offered a reward - no questions
asked - and got my bag back with everything in it.
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motoged
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Mula,
Yes, I spoke with the lady owner and left some info....
My carelessness....
Don't believe everything you think....
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Mula
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MotoGed . . .
My heart goes out to you.
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durrelllrobert
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I also lost my camera and 2 weeks of photos of Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Left it on table at time share in Sedona when we left. Turned around about
an hour down the road and went back. The office talked to maid and nobody saw anything.
SEDONA IS NOT MEXICO where there still are lots of honest people. Good luck finding yours.
Bob Durrell
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bajacalifornian
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That sucks. Broke mine. I understand. Sometimes things work out.
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.
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bajaguy
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A phone call from the timeshare office to the police to report a theft and a nasty letter to the timeshare board with the names of the office staff
and the maid would probably have worked wonders. I also wonder if the time share had insurance to cover the loss.
| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
I also lost my camera and 2 weeks of photos of Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Left it on table at time share in Sedona when we left. Turned around about
an hour down the road and went back. The office talked to maid and nobody saw anything.
SEDONA IS NOT MEXICO where there still are lots of honest people. Good luck finding yours. |
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ligui
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Just received an e-mail from lynn about your lost camera ...
She's great ! Thanks Lynn
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tripledigitken
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MotoGed,
That's a fear all who take vacation photos live with. The photos can be saved with some planning though.
If you take a laptop with you download photos from card each day.
Memory is pretty cheap these days, use a new card each day and store separately from cameras.
I use either of these methods when traveling.
Really feel bad for your loss.
Ken
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Whale-ista
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wow! if the camera has been found, is that a record for nomad problem solving? just 2 hours from posting to locating?
well done!!
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Loretana
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Motoged,
You might put a sign up near where your backpack was last in your possession written IN SPANISH and offer a reward.
I got the Lynn Hamman post, too....but not too many American/Canadian folks mill around out there in the desert where your backpack was left.
Just a thought. 
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
-Nikola Tesla
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chuckie
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It aint lost...
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motoged
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I backed up all my pics until 4 days ago.....lost some Santiago area canyons and stuff....some east cape road from San Jose to La Riberra....and some
stuff in El Triunfo (pizza and cinnamon rolls)....and some great canyon stuff down in the arroyos around San Bartolo....but the best images are in my
head....too bad no one else will see them...
I have my GoPro with me, but lost extra batteries and some SD cards....it's only "stuff", and I am not letting it get to me....too much
I appreciate the finders advice, but won't likely do that, as it keeps me in the mode of getting stuff back....hope is fine....to a limit....
Visiting with Mula and Dan earlier this evening helped create a better perspective....life beyond captured images... 
Somebody has two great cameras and a few other interesting items...
Don't believe everything you think....
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Whale-ista
wow! if the camera has been found, is that a record for nomad problem solving? just 2 hours from posting to locating?
well done!! |
No such luck, but a nice thought 
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KurtG
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GED,
I know how you feel, I did the same thing a few years back. As you say, the memories are what count.
If you do the road to Comondu please let us know the condition. I hope to ride it in the next few weeks, it is one of my favorites but it is several
years since I have been through there.
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willyAirstream
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Sorry Ged
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