| Pages:
1
2 |
rogerj1
Nomad
Posts: 265
Registered: 4-29-2004
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Baja article in Mens Journal
pretty good article on a Baja road trip, including mention of the Baja Big Fish company.
http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/0504/roadtrip_baja.html
|
|
|
Arthur
Nomad
Posts: 232
Registered: 10-2-2003
Location: San Anselmo, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Thanks for posting it. Very well-written -- it covers a lot of ground, but no cliches.
|
|
|
flyfishinPam
Super Nomad
Posts: 1727
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Loreto, BCS
Member Is Offline
Mood: gone fishin'
|
|
Men's Journal article
Thanks for posting the link to the story. The author was a really nice guy and had a great time fishing with my better half Francisco.
They told me that they'd send me an issue but the mail system is so slow, I haven't seen it yet.
Any way someone headed through Loreto can get me an issue? It will be worth a free t-shirt!
Thanks!
|
|
|
bajajudy
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6886
Registered: 10-4-2004
Location: San Jose del Cabo,BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
Muy interesante!
Gracias
|
|
|
lindsay
Nomad
Posts: 189
Registered: 9-9-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Interesting...but be careful!!
I enjoyed the article but I have to say, the driving description part could lead a Baja newbie to think that Highway #1 is some E-ticket ride at
Disneyland...as most nomads would chime in on this point...driving at high speeds and at night, as the opening of the article suggests, are breaking
two of the road's golden safety rules...don't forget all those roadside shrines do represent other travelers who weren't so fortunate.
Anyway, interesting adventure but "Cuidado"...I think many of us know too many sad stories that started with a bad case of driving bravado!! 
|
|
|
Sharksbaja
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5814
Registered: 9-7-2004
Location: Newport, Mulege B.C.S.
Member Is Offline
|
|
What class does a Toureg run in?
I liked this part. In a Toureg no less.
A tad embellished I'm afraid.
| Quote: | Then I off-roaded at 80 mph back to the Pacific, passing the 18th-century San Francisco Javier mission, to a nameless spot at mile 940, just north
of Todos Santos.
|
I did like the fly-fishin' part.
|
|
|
Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
Member Is Offline
Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
|
|
the article stats that San Andreas Fault system, which ripped Baja from mainland Mexico five million years ago.
dose any one else believe this theory?
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
 |
|
|
elgatoloco
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4339
Registered: 11-19-2002
Location: Yes
Member Is Offline
|
|
Yes.
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/The%20Gulf%20of%20California....
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
|
|
|
Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
Member Is Offline
Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
|
|
here is a better one. this proses started much longer ago than five million years.
http://math.ucr.edu/ftm/bajaPages/Geology.html
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
|
|
|
pokey
Nomad
Posts: 199
Registered: 5-20-2005
Location: ensenada
Member Is Offline
Mood: sun burned
|
|
I'd say the 200 pesos the author spent to get out of the speeding ticket was well spent. I got a ticket last week and it cost me 600 pesos to pay it
legally at the police station. Still a hell of alot cheaper than a ticket in the states 
|
|
|
BajaNomad
Super Administrator
Posts: 5000
Registered: 8-1-2002
Location: San Diego, CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: INTP-A
|
|
http://www.oceanoasis.org/fieldguide/geology1.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6488/
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003CD/finalprogram/session_4504.h...
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
– John Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
https://www.regionalinternet.com
Affordable Domain Name Registration/Management & cPanel Web Hosting - since 1999 |
|
|
rpleger
Super Nomad
Posts: 1087
Registered: 3-12-2005
Location: H. Mulegé, BCS
Member Is Offline
Mood: Was good.
|
|
I`m with Bruce on this one
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
|
|
|
TMW
Select Nomad
Posts: 10659
Registered: 9-1-2003
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
As far as driving 105mph on the hwy and 80 in the dirt, I think he had one too many of the 40 oz ones and it clouded his memory. Of course I could be
wrong and if so it won't be long till he's another flower set on the side of the road.
|
|
|
wilderone
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3837
Registered: 2-9-2004
Member Is Offline
|
|
Adolescent, amateur reinforcing stereotypes. Though I suppose this style is what is expected in "Mens" journal.
I'm driving 105 mph through the desert at night
MP3 player, 25 liters of Gatorade, and four packages of Oreos
And palm the cop 200 pesos
While Baja's main appeal is testing one's mettle on kayaks and surfboards, the nerve required to drive south for a week on a 70-mile-wide spit of land
can't be overstated.
Which is why the first question I invariably get when I stop at a beachside campsite is, "How deep are you going?"
is lined with islands and villages that shelter sea kayakers on monthlong expeditions
Then I off-roaded at 80 mph back to the Pacific, passing the 18th-century San Francisco Javier mission
tent serves as an outhouse, complete with a commode and pile of Mexican porn.
|
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
Posts: N/A
Registered: N/A
Member Is Offline
|
|
I personally know Porter Fox and can tell you he does'nt have enough eggs to let his car loose on the 405 let alone 105 on hwy 1. He is soo full of
himself. He did'nt make it to Cabo on this trip either but if I had not known him the story would have been just good, not great. I think people on
this forum have much better stories than this cheese****!
[Edited on 6-30-2005 by BajaNomad]
|
|
|
Packoderm
Super Nomad
Posts: 2116
Registered: 11-7-2002
Member Is Offline
|
|
Maybe he meant KPH.
|
|
|
flyfishinPam
Super Nomad
Posts: 1727
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Loreto, BCS
Member Is Offline
Mood: gone fishin'
|
|
Anon does now know of what he speaks
If Porter didn't make it to CAbo then how the hell could he call me in Loreto and my caller ID register a CSL phone number? He was here in Loreto as
I met him. Nice guy too. sounds like Anon is bitter or jealous...
|
|
|
flyfishinPam
Super Nomad
Posts: 1727
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Loreto, BCS
Member Is Offline
Mood: gone fishin'
|
|
So will anyone take me up on my offer??
One free Baja Big Fish T-shirt for one of these issues of Men's Journal with this feature story in it. They probably sent our copy but we still
haven't received it in Loreto.
|
|
|
Capt. George
Super Nomad
Posts: 2129
Registered: 8-21-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Geez, I wish I were a hero!
Wadda windbag......80mph on the road to San Javier.....
Anyone that has driven that road, even a loon like myself, knows this guy is playing with his pud........He also knows that most people that read his
Fairy Tale have not, nor will not, visit Baja..........
Whatever makes ya boat float........
P will look for the mag
Capt. George
|
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
Posts: N/A
Registered: N/A
Member Is Offline
|
|
Pam, Porter borrowed my cell phone while he was on this trip which is TELCEL and has a Cabo number and he has not given back my phone as yet, the
theif.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
