hitjohn
Lea goes to Slovakia
so i got laid off from work on march 31st and headed to baja, went to punta banda and bufadora and speared some yellowtail and calico bass, tried my hand at steering a panga but almost hit some rocks. this was the first day we got down to mexico.
on the way back to the house we rented in la salina from some guy named bill we saw a head on collision between a drunk in a van and a brown ford ranger pickup. we were heading north on the M1 and i saw a cloud of dust, then a wheel and side of a van in the air all ending up in a ravine below. we arrived first and i was gonna videotape the scene but instead capped the lens and helped two guys who were ejected from the pickup. the driver of the van was drunk and there were about 4 others strewn accross the side of the hill. no seatbelt laws apply in baja so they just go without i guess. one woman's face was smashed and some teeth missing. at this time i wished i knew more spanish. we got by on fragments and then the ambulance came. we proceeded home to la salina in a cautious manner.
so we spent the next week freediving and spearfishing some more. the water down there is actually pretty damn cold these days with a cold upwelling from deeper waters.
then i came back to the bay area and headed to trinity alps in shasta area for some sight seeing and just a whole lot of nothing. we stayed in a home in junction city and i got popped for fishing in the trinity river. caught a rainbow trout and was all excited since i have never hooked a fish before. the dept of fish and game let me off with a warning since i did a catch and release.
the whole time i was in trinity i did not see another asian person but went to the buddhist temple there in weaverville. apparently this was the first one in california. nice museum downtown as well called the "joss house".
behind where we stayed there were native americans leasing the land to do a salmon count and funny thing was they saw me fishing off limits and just said hello and smiled. the deal was the government gave them the tools to use and they leased ther land from the owner of the house i was staying in. they do their job on the part of the land that connects to the river in junction city, weird.
went horseback riding and it felt like an out of control motorcycle. tap the horse's sides to get it movin. pull right on the reign to go right and vice versa , pull back to go reverse. my TLR does not have a reverse gear so this was new. we rode horses at a place called coffee creek and they have all types of activities from hunting to fishing, childcare etc... basically where yuppies can go to "f%#k in the bush" the australian groundskeeper told us. the couple that runs the place is really cool, younger couple and the guy's aussie.
so now im back home, hooked up my trusty 56k modem and this cheapo pc but it works. tomorrow i'll go fishing some more. just not really ready for a job yet.
rode my tlr for the first time in weeks tonight in the cold to borrone's in palo alto to meet some friends. froze my nads off but it was nice. people looked at me like i was crazy but hey, thats what heated vests are about: ) (im a wuss)
peace!
john
on the way back to the house we rented in la salina from some guy named bill we saw a head on collision between a drunk in a van and a brown ford ranger pickup. we were heading north on the M1 and i saw a cloud of dust, then a wheel and side of a van in the air all ending up in a ravine below. we arrived first and i was gonna videotape the scene but instead capped the lens and helped two guys who were ejected from the pickup. the driver of the van was drunk and there were about 4 others strewn accross the side of the hill. no seatbelt laws apply in baja so they just go without i guess. one woman's face was smashed and some teeth missing. at this time i wished i knew more spanish. we got by on fragments and then the ambulance came. we proceeded home to la salina in a cautious manner.
so we spent the next week freediving and spearfishing some more. the water down there is actually pretty damn cold these days with a cold upwelling from deeper waters.
then i came back to the bay area and headed to trinity alps in shasta area for some sight seeing and just a whole lot of nothing. we stayed in a home in junction city and i got popped for fishing in the trinity river. caught a rainbow trout and was all excited since i have never hooked a fish before. the dept of fish and game let me off with a warning since i did a catch and release.
the whole time i was in trinity i did not see another asian person but went to the buddhist temple there in weaverville. apparently this was the first one in california. nice museum downtown as well called the "joss house".
behind where we stayed there were native americans leasing the land to do a salmon count and funny thing was they saw me fishing off limits and just said hello and smiled. the deal was the government gave them the tools to use and they leased ther land from the owner of the house i was staying in. they do their job on the part of the land that connects to the river in junction city, weird.
went horseback riding and it felt like an out of control motorcycle. tap the horse's sides to get it movin. pull right on the reign to go right and vice versa , pull back to go reverse. my TLR does not have a reverse gear so this was new. we rode horses at a place called coffee creek and they have all types of activities from hunting to fishing, childcare etc... basically where yuppies can go to "f%#k in the bush" the australian groundskeeper told us. the couple that runs the place is really cool, younger couple and the guy's aussie.
so now im back home, hooked up my trusty 56k modem and this cheapo pc but it works. tomorrow i'll go fishing some more. just not really ready for a job yet.
rode my tlr for the first time in weeks tonight in the cold to borrone's in palo alto to meet some friends. froze my nads off but it was nice. people looked at me like i was crazy but hey, thats what heated vests are about: ) (im a wuss)
peace!
john
