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BornFisher
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Wonderhussy continues her Baja adventure......
South from Puertecitos... she was following her guides and well at least they visited Coco---
https://youtu.be/KVDPEp-DjBQ
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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ehall
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Thanks for the link. She is entertaining. Now I have to go watch the first 2 episodes.
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AKgringo
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So Coco lost his legs in a water tank accident? I wonder if that was before, or after the complications from diabetes?
Does anyone recognize the final stop on this video? My guess is Punta Abreojos, but that is based only on the drivetime from Guerrero Negro!
I look forward to seeing her slower version of the drive back north.
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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55steve
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Coco's amputations are both diabetes related according to Coco.
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KurtG
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When I first met Coco around 1991 or so he told he told me that he had lost his leg in an accident at Las Arrastras. Said he was helping his brother
move a tank and it dropped on his leg, blamed his brother for not getting him to medical help until it was too late to save the leg. Before losing
the second leg he denied being diabetic but it seemed pretty clear to me that he probably was but I have no medical background to back up that
opinion. He also told me a bit about working in the states and in particular a driving trip he had made to Miami but was vague about the reason for
the trip. His stories are entertaining and I have always admired him for creating his own little world out there in that remote spot,
[Edited on 2-18-2021 by KurtG]
[Edited on 2-19-2021 by KurtG]
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David K
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Steve is correct... He was one-legged for years (and hoped they would take the other, as it bothered him so much).
July 2001
Desert Rat, Travelpearl, Sarah, and David Eidell pose with Coco at Coco's Corner.
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Skipjack Joe
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Driving 85mph on highway 1? Wow.
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boe4fun
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Our group of volunteers visited Coco many years ago on the way to our prosthetic clinic in La Paz. Dr. Bob Haining was with us on the trip and
diagnosed Coco as having atherosclerosis, which can be included in a group PVD’s (peripheral vascular diseases) which may result in amputation. So
if Coco suffered an accident it was most likely the underlying condition that helped create the need for an amputation. The second amputation was the
result of arterial occlusion caused by atherosclerosis.
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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KurtG
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Quote: Originally posted by boe4fun  | | Our group of volunteers visited Coco many years ago on the way to our prosthetic clinic in La Paz. Dr. Bob Haining was with us on the trip and
diagnosed Coco as having atherosclerosis, which can be included in a group PVD’s (peripheral vascular diseases) which may result in amputation. So
if Coco suffered an accident it was most likely the underlying condition that helped create the need for an amputation. The second amputation was the
result of arterial occlusion caused by atherosclerosis. |
Thanks for that info, it is of interest to me not only as regarding Coco but as one who suffers from a much less acute version of PVD as well as some
peripheral nerve damage resulting only in minor neuropathy.
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4x4abc
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painful to watch! "Karen travels in the Baja". Racing through paradise to put stickers on Coco's toilet.
Harald Pietschmann
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To add a little more confusion to Coco's legs. The lady that Coco stays with in San Felipe when he is there for a race told me that Coco lost his leg
unloading pipe from a truck in Ensenada. The one leg had to be amputated and the other had bad circulation issues and it had to be amputated which was
done several years ago which everyone knows about. Actually it had to be cut twice because the surgeon didn't cut it square across the first time.
I get the feeling than Coco tells whatever comes to mind at the time he is telling it.
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motoged
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Kinda like the rest of us....nothing unusual. What comes out of a person's mouth reflects what they are thinking at the moment....
And as I have said before..... "Don't believe everything you think..."
At least that's what I think....
Don't believe everything you think....
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AKgringo
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It would be interesting to read the results, if Coco was to sit down with a ghost writer to produce an autobiography.
I predict it would be lots of head scratching, and more than a few laughs comparing it to the stories he has told over the years. There would
probably be a very confused ghost writer as well!
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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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willardguy
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Coco star of stage and screen! there can't be another Jorge Enrique Corral Sandez can there?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970504/?ref_=nm_knf_t2
eight minutes of fame
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David K
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Coco was in that 'Tracing Cowboys' movie filmed at Papa's and Alfonsinas, too. See him and the corner/ guest book at Minute 3:00+
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo |
Does anyone recognize the final stop on this video? My guess is Punta Abreojos, but that is based only on the drivetime from Guerrero Negro!
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Bajazly
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Well that's 19 and half minutes you'll never get back. Winey snively waste of good air.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
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"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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AKgringo
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Thanks, that makes sense! I thought that their destination was a beach on the Pacific side.
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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ehall
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So many sourpusses on here. If you don't like the video don't watch it. Why would you watch for 19 and a half minutes then b-tch about it?
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David K
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She and two other vehicles zoomed to Santispac (from Puertecitos) and then they were going to pace their trip back north in smaller sections. I
watched the first three episodes and will see the others when she posts them. It is a casual travel video from a Baja newbie (I hope she learns they
are called 'elephant trees', lol).
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