On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:51:49 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:25:01 -0800, Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote: > >>The most common reason I see is that there are well used tire tracks >>running lots of places. People follow those thinking that if all those >>other people could make it so can they. They don't know that the tracks >>were made by the countless small ATV type vehicles cruising around. >> >>Syncros can do amazing things but most of the time in Baja they are >>loaded down with people and stuff to the point where getting stuck is >>more likely than normal. >> >> > > No offence meant to those with real handicaps, but we call those >obnoxious little 4-wheeler ATVs "Baja Wheelchairs". It seems like almost >every fat, lazy Gringo owns one and NEVER walks anywhere in Baja. They >take those things up and down the beaches, making the strand into >a 'freeway', just like they leave back in the States..Ugg!
To our utter delight, last time we were in San Felipe we learned that they've *banned* these abominations from the beach! :-D
B&S '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc' SoCal |
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