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bajagregg
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Forbes Magazine article on the La Paz area
An interesting article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2018/12/13/forget...
Traveling Baja for 50 years.
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That was a well written article. Nice!
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I don't think of La Paz as a "tiny Beach town" at all.
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First the "tiny beach town" then "this is a place for travellers,not tourists". I couldn´t read past that. She´s probably never been there.
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Well, I would say there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist. I think we Nomads are travelers.
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Can we agree that it's a "beach" town.
Although I think technically speaking.
It's a beach city.
Bahia Asuncion is a "small beach town".
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | Well, I would say there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist. I think we Nomads are travelers. |
I know the difference but LAP has a hell of a lot more tourists than travellers:
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La Paz used to be a tiny beach town.
Very local
Very quiet
Very calm
Now the rat race is on
Traffic increased by the factor 10
Now elbows rule
Harald Pietschmann
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Nice article. Thanks for sharing.
We see it as a traveler town and hope it does not turn into a tourist town. It is still very local, quiet and calm for us and some people who complain
about it apparently can't find enough money on go fund me to get a bus ticket out of our town and stop complaining about it.
Just fking leave 4X4 since all you can do is slam La Paz in every post...NOW GO AWAY to another place. You make local, educated Mexican people hate
the gringo type that you represent. Leave us now!
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Now we are going to go out and enjoy some local music at Courmel for the evening and enjoy the city we live in.
My wifes family, who knows 4X4 and wants him to stop going to their ‘business‘ will chip in for a bus ticket when he does his Go Fund My Bus
ticket because they are tired of him complaining about EVERYTHING when he goes there..
Dude, local people here know, and don‘t like you...wonder why...go away
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Like I wrote before - I'll buy you lunch and beer, let's talk
Harald Pietschmann
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Can I get some of that fun(d) money?
Except it is to stay in town and wonder up and down the Malecon trying to figure it all out... and understanding enough to get a cool drink and wonder
how in the heck I am going fishing...
Maybe I'll go to Muertos or La Vantana...
I left a few Roosterfish there... all of them
And a few lures...
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That's fine … her influence piece (she probably got free hotel stay and was led around by the hand to all those places) will keep travelers and
tourists away from the really special places. Definitely not tiny - that tells ya something.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Well, I would say there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist. I think we Nomads are travelers. |
Traveler and tourist are same thing in this use of the word. If you call yourself a traveler, you are just a delusional tourist.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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| Quote: Originally posted by charliemanson | Nice article. Thanks for sharing.
We see it as a traveler town and hope it does not turn into a tourist town. It is still very local, quiet and calm for us and some people who complain
about it apparently can't find enough money on go fund me to get a bus ticket out of our town and stop complaining about it.
Just fking leave 4X4 since all you can do is slam La Paz in every post...NOW GO AWAY to another place. You make local, educated Mexican people hate
the gringo type that you represent. Leave us now! |
Charles Manson,
You are a tourist - a nasty, ill-mannered tourist.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Well, I would say there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist. I think we Nomads are travelers. |
Traveler and tourist are same thing in this use of the word. If you call yourself a traveler, you are just a delusional tourist.
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Wow!
So deep!
That's when I do my best traveler'ing... when I'm in "delusional tourisist" mode.
I enjoy it more that way
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Capital of BCS with 250,000 habitants, hardly small, she must be from NYC.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Well, I would say there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist. I think we Nomads are travelers. |
Traveler and tourist are same thing in this use of the word. If you call yourself a traveler, you are just a delusional tourist.
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I am sure we all can have our own interpretations. Since you are so unfamiliar with me (after all these years), let me clarify my interpretation...
*Tourists stay almost exclusively in resort hotels, often travel in groups, on tour buses, or with a tour guide.
*Travelers usually travel solo or with a few friends and typically camp or stay in motels or bed & breakfast places. They often don't have a firm
itinerary and can be flexible on their travel plans to best enjoy what they find.
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Don't think the author has been to La Paz. ''Tiny beach town'' is a give away. As in, anyone who's ever been to LP would never call it a tiny
or a beach town.
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F*ck it.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
I am sure we all can have our own interpretations. Since you are so unfamiliar with me (after all these years), let me clarify my interpretation...
*Tourists stay almost exclusively in resort hotels, often travel in groups, on tour buses, or with a tour guide.
*Travelers usually travel solo or with a few friends and typically camp or stay in motels or bed & breakfast places. They often don't have a firm
itinerary and can be flexible on their travel plans to best enjoy what they find. |
Same flocking thing.
tourist
(tʊərɪst)
Word forms: tourists
countable noun
A tourist is a person who is visiting a place for pleasure and interest, especially when they are on vacation.
...a tourist attraction.
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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