Phrases with Special Meaning for Us

Here are some phrases or sentences that capture some part of our 9-day experience and, thus, have special meaning for us. Of course, readers may ask us for details but we reserve the right to protect the innocent and guilty.

• exceeds expectations
• Shari and Juan
• La Pinta or Desert Inn in Catavina
• military checkpoints
• landscape variety
• farming with desert wind houses
• Steve and smelly whale breath
• Ramon, our boat captain, fisher, and local paster and Axel, our whale guide and marine ecologist
• Tocen la mama y besen la.
• Kiss the whale like this.
• Mga suplada ang (The unsocial) young French women.
• Sitlaya and Estrella, the masseuse
• "At least he puts his money where his mouth is."
• KQED live programming with Dan and Scott
• sudden stop for cows on the roadside
• the armpit of Baja
• the lovely Las Casitas in Mulege
• May the Internet be with you. It already is.
• shock absorber and amortiguador
• Ajuste la suspension y un sapo (freno) lado chofer.
• topes with and without warning signs
• our bright, enterprising tour guide and 'cuando the Spanish arrived in Baja'
• yellow, purple, orange--Go Clemson--and blue flowers everywhere
• Tecate every evening
• shoulderless roads
• crime--one way in and one way out
• zona de vados
• swimming in Playa de Requeson
• Where is the warm water for swimming?
• delicious ravioli and spaghetti dinners
• two couples in Bahia de Los Angeles enjoying a delicious dinner with two bottles of wine and a third couple, their friends, stranded in a car stuck in the mud of a dry lake
• Did someone plant flower seeds along the side of the highway?
• the spiral staircase in the church in Mision de San Borja
• El Camino Real
• toilet paper in the waste cans
• giant flags of Mexico
• coast beef wood
• ficus
• dates in San Ignacio
• lupine
• cardon and cardonal
• elephant trees
• cirio
• agave
• yucca
• cholla
• barrel cactus
• burros
• mother whale presenting her baby, la cria, to us
• well-marked, well-paved roads
• Where are the planted trees in the potholes?
• No repase.
• the accommodations in Bahia Asuncion on the Internet
• blogging on the way
• cool, quiet mission churches in San Ignacio, Mulege, Santa Rosalia, and San Borja
• location, location, location and real estate lots everywhere
• Where should we retire?
• $5000 per 500 sq. meters
• cactus gravestones
• Negra Modelo
• our mechanic Ruben and his son Gabriel
• phone calls home
• Bimbo bread purchased at the 'Wal-Mart' in Bahia Asuncion
• two socio-political worlds and the big and tall border wall
• fish tacos
• trash, trash, trash. Does anyone recycle?
• extensive agriculture in northern Baja
• Oakland or bust
• getting lost and keeping our cool in Tijuana
• left-turn signal lights and passing vehicles
• discussion and more discussion.
• "Steve, for Christ's sake, would you please shut up? Dan and I would like to talk a little."
• Do they really choose pink and orange colored houses? Why were pink and orange the only colors in the paint store?
• Javier Zuñiga, a dignified, kind, and well-traveled man
• How is the power generated at the plant near Guerrero Negro?
• Wanted and Needed: Transportation and Civil Engineers
• rice rockets
• "How many ways can you be so naive?"
• 5-star accommodations
• Baja's use of groundwater will make California's water problems seem trivial.
• Kirkland organic oatmeal in Guerrero Negro
• watching the movie Fargo
• Our wives wouldn't like Fargo.
• hottest salsa in gringo restaurants
• The cap on Steve's water bottle breaks and we haven't even left.
• Scott, the light traveler
• Steve, the heavy traveler
• eucalyptus trees
• mango tree near the hot springs in San Borja
• Dia de San Valentin and Valentine's Day greetings
• four wide trailer homes, precaution, and the cost of construction
• live yucca fence posts
• In'n Out Burger and the Great Hamburger Recall
• difficult exchange of money
• Tijuana is San Diego on drugs.
• mustaches and Mexican machismo
• the motel in Chula Vista and the armed guards
• Pemex and the gas-can guy
• time change in Baja California Sur
• Flinstones and Catavina
• la cria
• peatones
• bomberos
• strawberries
• "Dan, do I have to peel the pear?"
• We've finally found the missing Lucky truck.
• Kentocky Fried Chicken
• Spanalog--'isa pa' and 'kwan'
• Man at the Pemex station: "My wife would engage in eco-terrorism. She'd kill the people and free the turtles."
• "Are the roads getting narrower?"
• "Steve, you're a handsome guy."