Something nice: Baja Bucko sings to us around the campfire at Mission Santa María
If you have not met Teddi 'Baja Bucko' and got to hear her play the guitar and sing 'The Cowboys of Baja have Stolen my Heart," then this is a treat
(turn your speakers way up):
Recorded by HB Murphy at Mission Santa María in 2010.
Baja Bucko sitting next to Neal Johns, in El Rosario the night before heading into Santa María...
I love Teddi and I love her song. She interchanges the names of the cowboys--who's gentle, who's strong, who's handsome--depending on which guides
she's riding with. She's the best.
So cool that you met her... Not a lot of Mule Riding Women on Baja Nomad... and she knows El Camino Real and the ranch people of the mountains so very
well... Her DNA collection from them will be a fantastic anthropological resource. I am sure Harry Crosby is proud of her work, they do know each
other well.
On one of the rides, Teddi risked bringing her good guitar (on muleback) and I brought my bowed psaltery. We made music every night. Here's Teddi and
her guitar at base camp, and Chema working out "Cielito Lindo" on the psaltery.
I love it that so many of us Nomads are friends in person.. we share a common love for Baja, and Baja does mean different things to different people,
but that is okay!
Bucko (Teddi) was one of the first Baja people I began to email with to share history about in the late 90s when I got a computer. As it turned out
both Teddi and I had letters to the editor published on the same page of Mexico West magazine, back in the late 70s (I think)... and it was Neal Johns
who discovered that and showed us.
Here is when I met Teddi and her family (in 2001, from my website):
Stopping first in San Diego, we meet 'Baja Bucko' (Teddi) and her family, from Oregon. 'Whistler' (Glenn) had provided fishing equipment for use while
kayaking the Sea of Cortez. Teddi and her sons will first be riding mules on the 230+ year old cargo trail between Mission Santa Maria and Gonzaga
Bay!
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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