Not sure what is so funny? Oh, cell phones, right... LOL
But, always one wishing help others find their Baja 'special place', including the past...
Enjoy the photos from Howard Gulick, author and mapmaker of the Lower California Guidebook (c1956, 1958, and newer): https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/baja/gulick/index.html (click: On to image index, after the intro). The photos enlarge with a caption.
In 1949-1950, Marquis McDonald and a friend traveled to all the mission sites in Baja they knew of... by Jeep, by horseback, and by foot! https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/baja/mcdonald/mcdonald01.h...
(sadly, when you click to see the photo enlarged, a different image from the collection enlarges)
Mike McMahan (Baja author and wall map creator) and three other sportsmen traveled the length of Baja in 4WD camper trucks around 1952 and one of them
wrote a book (Baja California by Ralph H a n c o c k, 1953) and there was a short film made by these guys...
Vehicles used by travelers in the 50's would be pretty much limited to Willys Jeeps (Surplus Jeeps, CJs, Wagons, Trucks) and Dodge Power Wagons. Paved
and graded roads were not the most common thing back then.
Get into the Earle Stanley Gardner books. He and his pals created some very interesting off road toys. Early 60's
Erle and his friends made for great stories. His first Baja adventure book was in 1948, the rest were all in the 1960s. We enjoy watching old Perry
Mason shows even more, knowing Erle was a Baja man!
Mike McMahan (Baja author and wall map creator) and three other sportsmen traveled the length of Baja in 4WD camper trucks around 1952 and one of them
wrote a book (Baja California by Ralph H a n c o c k, 1953) and there was a short film made by these guys...
Just checking out that video... Thanks for sharing!
"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
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