Beach life makes for cozy afternoons and chilly nights. One needs to have the proper wood burning chimney to keep warm. Below are the three chimney’s we have narrowed down for our patio. Chimney’s Price ranges are 25-50 dlls. These are great prices and they include sturdy metal stands. One always could haggle… Funny thing, [...]
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The most important thing a major city region can do for it’s citizens is create a well connected transit system. Within Mexico, the most evident effort of connected transit systems: are the systems of the Mexico City Metro, and the Tren Ligero. The two systems do not operate as one single entity, they do participate [...]
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*As of Sept. 2009, this once a upon a time restaurant located in Ensensada bay has been completely demolished.
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Do you need a reason to head South of the border this weekend? If you need something to do I would suggest a short drive south of the border to attend some of the wine harvesting events in Baja California’s wine country. My recommendation would be to the hit the Street Fair in Ensenada on [...]
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Another Baja Voice You gotta love Mr. Jesse Ventura for telling it like it is. From Professional wrestler, to Governor of Minnesota, and now back in the States promoting his latest book out on paperback “Don’t start the revolution without me” Jesse tells it like it is on Larry King Live. Of particular interest to [...]
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Fellow border blogger, Ms. Anna Cearley posts on her blog Across the Border that the Telegram survives in Mexico because it serves the communication needs of remote villagers throughout Mexico; that the most common non-essential telegram is for remittance notifications. While in the States the need for the telegram is now obsolete. The existence of [...]
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Hello April – good bye March… Last month we began noticing that we were missing files on our server. This occurrence was later confirmed with a database connection issue and lastly with a full melt down. This major mis-hap occurred at the hardware level, with very little warning. I’ve replaced our old box and have [...]
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We challenge ourselves (and You) against the “This is not how it is done in the States” way of thinking.
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