Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:06:33 -0600
Reply-To: "Smola, Tony" <TSmola@TRIBUNE.COM>
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From: "Smola, Tony" <TSmola@TRIBUNE.COM>
Subject: FRYDAY-----horror stories on Surf Mex Trips
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I'd like to hear some stories from the list regarding wierd incidents while
camping, surfing in Mexico and other strange places....could be anywhere?
Here's one to get the van rolling:
While on a surf trip to Cabo San Lucas......long drive.......don"t do it
unless you're young and crazyand have good A/C...yeah right...nothing helps
in August in a Van
1) I had a problem with 4th gear popping out while driving back....some 800
miles south of the border....soon I had to hold her in just to to keep it in
4th......
Then, it popped out and I couldn't find it.....4th was gone!........so we
had to drive all the way back from Gurerro Negro to LA in 3rd....At first we
took it easy
But later we realized that it actually hummed pretty well at 50 mph and
didn't really slow down that much on hills.......
2) That same trip we got hassled by some Rosarito cops at K-38 ( ex-surf
spot-now condos)....and after going through all our stuff the cop slammed
his thumb in our
door and bled all over the place....needless to say they left immediately.
3) While camping at Quatro Casas.....we had some Federales come out of
nowhere in the middle of the night while a buddy and I were about to
partake.......
luckily I saw a multiple shadows and quietly told him to put IT down.....he
did and then another Federale flanked the campside from the rear and scared
the crap out of me.....
I got up and told them in spanish how bad the surf was( which it
was----FLAT!)....and that we were out of beer and ice (basic mex surf
necessities)....they felt sort of sorry and basically just wanted to
talk..... the poor Federale kids get dumped off along the main pan-
peninsular highway and then the guys have to hike 15 miles to the
coast.....in the middle of the night.....wow that's the army I guess.
Anyway. I distracted them enough to get them to just keep on going....just
18 year old Mexican kids with machine guns........a little
scarey!......anyway nothing happened.although
I almost had a heart attack....and grew older and wiser since.....WOW!
Malibu Tony 85' Westy.........1.9L soon going to a 2.2L WBX soon...very
soon.....summer is coming.
