David K
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16 years ago: The El Rosario Festival and Nomads were there!
In July 1774, El Rosario was founded by Spanish Dominican missionaries.
The birth of a town and for a time, a local celebration, hosted by Antonio Muñoz, who we knew here as 'BajaCactus'...
In 2006, was the second Baja Rosario Cultural Festival. My daughter Sarah (16) joined Elizabeth ('Baja Angel') and I on this trip. We met up with
Nomads 'John M' & family, 'BajaNomad' & family, 'bajaandy', and others!
We also visited La Lobera, and the Half Way House for dinner...
PHOTOS: https://vivabaja.com/p706/
The first festival, in 2005: https://vivabaja.com/p705/
The third was in 2007: https://vivabaja.com/p707/
Anyone who attended these still on Nomad?
Share your memories or photos!
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wilderone
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Oh yes, i remember. There were tours to El Cardonal. So I thought I'd go, decided to camp there. Backed into soft sand - got stuck. Thought a
"tour" could come along, and help me out - um - no. Dug out in the heat the next day - with a friendly local seeking shade under my car. I worked on
the other side while it was there, eventually pulling out.
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AKgringo
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Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
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Another Kia driver! I still have my four door Sportage, but it is pretty much a parts car now, do you still have yours?
I am surprised you got stuck there, I wouldn't hesitate to make a three point turn there with mine, but I have been fooled a couple of times myself.
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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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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El Cardonal : 30°8.09′, -115°33.68′(WGS84)
widerone: too much air!  So sorry we never saw you to help!
We were on the El Cardonal tour in 2005, I actually led it since Antonio had shown me where it was a few months before.:
The squarecircle, Surfer Jim, Bob H, Hook, Frigatebird, Santiago, Baja Nomad, Nicolita, Neal Johns, follow David K and Baja Angel on a drive into the
Baja desert.
The cardonal a few miles east of the El Rosario bridge, near where Arroyo San Juan de Dios joins the El Rosario river valley.
The Baja ladies are chatting (Audrey H and Baja Angel).
At the site of an abandoned ranch next to a large cardón forest, we mix it up.
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wilderone
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Ha! No - don't have the Sportage any longer. When it was losing a qt of oil every week and overheating, I traded it in for a Subaru. That Sportage
was great for years - pulled me out of deep mud in that Low 1st gear, got 34 mpg, etc.
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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I owned three Subaru 4x4 wagons ('77.5, '80, & '87 models). Only the third had low range and what a big help that was! The first two were 1600cc
(1.6 liter) and the third was a 1.8 liter (1800cc).
For a few years I was not going to Baja regularly after I moved to Fresno for a job and had four kids [my 2 and new wife's 2] from '94-'99, with an
exception or two in my 2WD van.
When I was ready for another 4x4, Subaru had abandoned the 'Off-Highway' theme of FWD to 4WD and went instead with an AWD (All-Wheel-Drive system, and
no low range) even though they had models named 'Outback' and 'Baja'!
I also wanted a truck for work (and play) and the Subaru BRAT or BAJA just were not big enough with their 4 foot beds and mini El Camino or Ford
Ranchero style passenger pickup.
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BajaBlanca
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Registered: 10-28-2008
Location: La Bocana, BCS
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wilderone - those photos are epic! They really tell the story of the nightmare. That is a good sized visitor you had!
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