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SlyOnce
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Living in Playas de TJ
Here is what it's like to live in Playas de TJ.
Most evenings we have a walk on the beach
Watching other couples walking down the malecon
Watching the full moon set at dawn from our patio
My sweetheart in La Bufadora
10 minutes to TJ's Zona Rio and CECUT
Sending up a "Globo de Cantoya" on Sunday evenings
Happy hour every night on the patio
Dinner is served!
View from the window
The main beach area
I live like a king because of her
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yellowklr
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AWESOME
Derek
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Udo
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Great life, Sly, and a great looker for a sweetheart!
Udo
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I forgot to mention in my earlier post...
I had no idea Playas had a malecón. Really a nice one.
Udo
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willardguy
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AND a carls jr and KFC for those days when you just can't look at another taco!
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DENNIS
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Thanks for the foto tour.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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SlyOnce
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Playas is a great blend of two cultures. You can dine on birria, homemade tamales and empanedas, or sushi, or American fast food. There are a couple
of outstanding pizza places. There is a great Mariscos place. Its safe and clean. TJ is 10 minutes, the border 15, and the Home Depot in Rosarito
is about 20.
The south end of Playas is the MX end, the north end much more gringo. The south end has the "sobre ruedas" (street swap meet) on Monday.
My novia and I have been together a year now, we get along great. Since we are a bridge between 2 cultures, we have endless things to teach each
other. She put herself through college, with a 4 year degree. She speaks near perfect English, and we're working on my Spanish. She just got her
BCC (US visa) this week!
As a couple, we both have things to give that the other needs.
We are making plans for a life together, perhaps in southern Baja or maybe right here in Playas, its like heaven on Earth to the 2 of us right now.
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SlyOnce
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Before we got the apartment, when we were still dating, a lot of Baja mornings began like this
Playas has lots of car shows.
Suzy picked a favorite
I made a project this summer to photograph the murals on the Malecon
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Excellent pictures, thanks. The sunset was my favorite, but the cars are really cool. I had a red plymouth that looked like the green car.
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Sanborn's Coffe Shop
A branch of the legendary restaurant in Mexico City, where you can get an American or Mexican breakfast, lunch or dinner
The menu is an encyclopedia that includes many items - you can get a breakfast with eggs, hash browns and toast with sausage (not chorizo), or a Club
sandwich or Caesar salad for lunch.
Taco al Franc(es) - Yumm!
And a very busy fish taco shop near the bull fighting ring that always has crowds around it - I never remember the name, only the deliciousness of the
food.
“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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dasubergeek
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Don't forget Mariscos Becerra... mmmm, those smoked clams!
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sdraul
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Very nice. When are the car shows? Every week or ?/
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Venice beach without the high prices. Good for you!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
I had a red plymouth that looked like the green car.
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happy hour in Bakersfield, TW??
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
I had a red plymouth that looked like the green car.
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happy hour in Bakersfield, TW?? |
if it was a red 58 Fury, that be Christine!
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DocRey
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Happy for youz. Have a blessed future.
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SlyOnce
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The impromptu car shows are most Sunday mornings during the summer. The photos I posted are from a really big, organized show, that they had near the
end of the summer. There must have been 500 classic cars, most lowered, on hydraulics, with the works done to them, truly works of modern art.
I will post here when the next one is planned.
For anyone wishing to visit, there are some nice, safe, secure but small beach hotels 1 block from the water in the $MX 350 peso / night range.
Playas is a simple family place and it would not be unusual to see us sitting in a beach coffee shop on the malecon at midnight on a Saturday watching
kids play in the sand and surf.
There's lots of great places to eat and drink but this is not a party all night kind of town, you can go into TJ for that.
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willardguy
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when I lived down the road in SADM I always enjoyed visiting the playas but paying the toll in and out to go 10 miles really peesed me off. bet they
would get more visitors from down the toll road if they had a free way in! (not counting the looong way around on the free road)
oh and I found by standing by the fence I could lock onto an ATT cell tower and make calls!
yeah, im a cheapskate.
[Edited on 3-21-2014 by willardguy]
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TMW
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
I had a red plymouth that looked like the green car.
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happy hour in Bakersfield, TW?? |
Every hour is happy hour, as they say it's 5 o'clock somewhere. I did have a red 48 plymouth back in the 60s, fun car. Bought it for $50 at a junk
yard. Rebuilt the engine and had it painted red.
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sdraul
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Yes please do...my grandson and I go to car shows..so he would get a kick out of going to one in Baja...My e-mail is still the same if you have
it...PM me otherwise
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