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GUESS WHERE IN BAJA III (because of popular demand)
You guys rock with your guesses and answers!
As before, the location as accurately as possible and spelled correctly counts!
Maybe I need to make this a bit tougher over the previous ones? LOL, I still included a few super-easy ones for the seasoned Baja travelers!
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3) SULFUR MINE Km. 49 south of Mexicali (Pacifico)
4) PETE'S CAMP/ EL PARAISO (Tioloco)
5) LA POMA, north of Punta Bufeo (Tioloco)
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7) EL PEDREGOSO "boulder mountain" (TMW)
8) CUESTA DE LA LEY (TMW)
9) COYOTE CAL'S Punta San Isidro (Pacifico)
10) OBSERVATORY HIGHWAY east of Rancho Meling (TMW)
11) LONCHERIA EL DESCANSO, Km. 108+ (TMW)
12) EL TRIUNFO (Pacifico)
SCOREBOARD:
TMW: 4
Pacifico: 3
Tioloco: 2
[Edited on 5-20-2020 by David K]
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4- Petes Camp
5- Punta Bufeo
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4: CORRECT! Pete's Camp El Paraiso
5: The point in the distance is Bufeo (GOOD). What is the name of the place with the shade frames and restaurant I am at?
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La Poma
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PERFECT!
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3. Sulfer mine - San Felipe?
8. La Cuesta near El Progreso
9. Coyote Cals - Rick?
12. El Triunfo (Spelling)?
"Plan your life as if you are going to live forever. Live your life as if you are going to die tomorrow." - Carlos Fiesta
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Quote: Originally posted by Pacifico  | 3. Sulfer mine - San Felipe?
8. La Cuesta near El Progreso
9. Coyote Cals - Rick?
12. El Triunfo (Spelling)? |
3: A sulfur mine, but it is closer to Mexicali than San Felipe, off the San Felipe highway, however!
9: Yes, Rick was way cool, too!
12: Yes, El Triunfo is the spelling. 
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#7 is El Pedregoso
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#8 is La Cuesta De La Ley
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#11 Loncheria El Descanso
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#10 is past the Meling Ranch on the way to the observatory.
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#8.....Looks like the grade just east of Rancho Piedra Blanca, headed toward Punta San Francisquito.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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TMW... man you are on fire, again!
Correct on all four... 7, 8, 10, 11.
AKgringo, you are correct, too but TW beat you by 45 minutes and got the exact name correct for "The Grade that Rules"... Before a road grader fixed
it, in the 1980s, it was pretty steep! Now it is paved with concrete.
Here it was in 1962 (Auto Club image):
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I never knew it had a name! I don't think the concrete work was done the first time I drove that road.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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It was done in winter 2015/2016, as I recall?
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Hints needed for #1, 2, 6 ???
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HINTS:
#1 is a Spanish Mission site, but the walls you see are modern additions.
#2 is the peninsular divide. Water flows to the gulf on the left and to the Pacific on the right. The squarecircle's Land Rover and the back of my
Toyota is on the right edge of this photo looking south.
#6 is a popular camping area, about 10 miles from #2 photo. Note boojum trees.
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OK, so I really could finally stump the Nomads!?!
#1 Mission Santa Catalina (5 miles east of Independencia off Hwy. 3).
#2 The road to Mission Santa María, 10 miles from Rancho Santa Ynez.
#6 Rancho Santa Ynez.
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Even though only 9 of the 12 photos were identified, TMW wins again... That is all three of these 2020 Guess Where games... Tom, would you like all
three of the books offered as prize? Or, instead, the newest 2020 printing with updates of my book. Your photo of San Isidoro is still featured on
page 216.
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I still have nightmares about that hill
| Quote: Originally posted by David K | TMW... man you are on fire, again!
Correct on all four... 7, 8, 10, 11.
AKgringo, you are correct, too but TW beat you by 45 minutes and got the exact name correct for "The Grade that Rules"... Before a road grader fixed
it, in the 1980s, it was pretty steep! Now it is paved with concrete.
Here it was in 1962 (Auto Club image):
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Running the 1000, I think it was 1973 or 74.
Spinning, slipping and sliding we just made it to the top and I glanced away from the road, slid my right side over into the rocks and popped a tire.
Total irony!! Conquer the mighty mountain and blow a tire while sort of having a self-congratulatory moment.
Last time I drove that road, maybe five years ago, I thought that the new route just went around it. That was my perception.
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