Date:         Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:06:58 -0700
Reply-To:     BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM>
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From:         BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM>
Subject:      Re: Baja Syncro Chronicles vol 113, long
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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