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Bob H
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I'm done with Baja
I've seen what I wanted to see and experience in Baja. Things are just getting worse down there. I'm DONE with Baja!
There, I've said it!!
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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micah202
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. .......but is Baja done with -you-?
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elgatoloco
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I'm not.
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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JZ
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What happened Bob? Say it.
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redhilltown
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Nope
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DENNIS
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It isn't what it used to be, that's for certain, but neither am I.
Time to start ignoring the bad and living the good.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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Russ
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Any place you've become familiar with you'll see those changes. Frustrating isn't it? But we just dig in and make the best of it or move on to another
life with dreams of the past. Good luck in finding your utopia Bob.
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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bajabuddha
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Change is the constant.......
Change is as good as a rest.....
There is a difference between a change of mind and a change of heart...
....grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.
Good luck and happy trails on your next adventures; the world is a beautiful place. It's just unfortunately populated with people who tend to get in
the way sometimes. It's a new dawn.......
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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mtnpop
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If you love something set it free..
If it doesn't return have a Margarita.......
But thats beside the point for this post....
Common sense is a flower that doesn\'t grow in everyone\'s garden.....
A wise man once spoke nothing.....
Never kick a cow chip on a hot day!!
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DENNIS
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Perhaps we're allowing philosophy to cloud a sad reality.
Mexico, Baja included, is going through an upheaval. Heinous crimes committed by the government in collusion with organized crime are all over
today's headlines. Even La Paz, the city of peace, has turned into a killing zone. These things can't be easily ignored as it's impossible to know
how, when or where [even if] it will come to an end.
I have a feeling this may be going through Bob's mind at the time, and quite frankly, if I weren't so heavily invested here, I would be sharing his
sentiments.
Sad, but true.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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Russ
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I think you're right Dennis. Hoping for a better future ....
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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chuckie
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It's sort of cumulative, isnt it? the rising crime rate even in the small towns, higher costs on just about everything, the storms...our advancing
ages...We all most likely agree there is no utopia....And Scotty sold El Candils....leaving Mexico...
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briantroy
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Why? Baja is Baja. You see the best and some worst. You wanna quit? Andale. You wanna start? Andale. If you ain't got that then you ain't got Baja.
These endless lands and unique waters are not simply soil and sea. These elements of earth and water are as much a part of me as my blood and organs.
And the people that populate this corner of the world lift my spirit to heights that allow me to see what is truly important; The beauty of life. And
that is the essential gift.
B. Florez, Mission of Souls.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
It's sort of cumulative, isnt it? the rising crime rate even in the small towns, higher costs on just about everything, the storms...our advancing
ages...We all most likely agree there is no utopia....And Scotty sold El Candils....leaving Mexico... |
Chuckie.......we're talking mass graves here. This ain't no objection to the high price of gas.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
...And Scotty sold El Candils....leaving Mexico... |
When did this happen? Any more details?
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bajabuddha
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Dennis, I feel philosophy doesn't 'cloud reality', but can clarify one's own perspective of it by giving a dimensional picture of it rather than
jumbled thoughts left unsaid or unwritten. Hence, Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer, "the wisdom to know the difference".
Or, like the fly said while standing on the mirror, "That's another way of looking at it". 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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MICK
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never heard about the mass grave in baja? I have been up in San Diego for the last two weeks and even here, everyday on the news there is another
drive by shooting on some girl is getting raped. Not sure it is safe anywhere any more. We all just have to decide where we are the most comfortable.
Sorry to here for you Bob that is not baja. For the most part where I live the people are still friendlier than anywhere I go in the US.
Good Luck
Mick
Getting there is ALL the fun!
Ok being here is fun to
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willardguy
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soooo......you're saying baja isn't the glorious utopia the nutty sprinkler pipe guy claims? but seriously, aside from a few things, uncrowded surfing, fishing, low rent, im sure theres a few more, I can see saying to heck with
it and going norte. this is assuming you don't require the perks we enjoy here.
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J.P.
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Change
The Easiest Way To Cope With Change Is to Become Part Of It.
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Whale-ista
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Someone mentioned mass graves in Baja? This article
(link to report )
makes it sound as if Baja is much safer than the eastern border regions.
Am I missing other news reports?
"Despite the tenuous security situation, Tamaulipas has received more deportees than any other state in Mexico so far this year, and Nuevo Laredo has
received more than any other city. As of August, more than 27,000 immigrants have been repatriated to Nuevo Laredo this year.
Its a totally different experience to get dropped off in Tamaulipas or Coahuila than to be dropped off in Sonora or Baja California, said Jeremy
Slack, referring to the pronounced lack of security in those northeastern Mexican states. Slack, the principal investigator on the Migrant Border
Crossing Study, a project funded by the Ford Foundation, spent three months living at a migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo while conducting research in
late 2013."
\"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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