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Sal Fish On SCORE And More from 2023-11-21T16:00:19
Sal Fish, the Godfather, is back for his second conversation on Slow Baja. This time, we met above the beach at his place in La Paz. We picked up where our previous conversation ended around 196...
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Bob Bower What About You? from 2023-11-13T17:09:08
At age 8, Bob Bower read about the Bill Stroppe Lincoln teams that dominated the 1953 Mexican Carrera Panamericana and later learned about the Baja 1000 race to La Paz. It became a fixation ...
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Antonio "Toni" Reséndiz Campo Archelon Bahía De Los Ángeles from 2023-10-27T18:28:46
In 1978, shortly after graduating as an oceanologist, Antonio Reséndiz Senior went to live in Bahía de los Ángeles. They called him "Crazy" Reséndiz since he arrived with almost nothin...
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Trudi Angell On The Museo Antigua Californio from 2023-10-06T19:51:16
Trudi Angell makes her third visit to the Slow Baja Podcast to discuss her new "retirement project," The Museo Antigua Californio in Loreto, BCS.
Trudi is well known in Baja as ...
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Kurt Williams Talks Land Cruisers And Travel from 2023-09-26T02:32:53
Today’s Slow Baja conversation is with Kurt Williams. He owns Cruiser Outfitters, a legendary company specializing in parts and services for Toyota Land Cruisers. I am eternally grateful to Kurt...
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TopoTerra And Legends Overlanding Baja Safari Solutions from 2023-09-18T15:31:24
We meet Brandon Thomason and Nathan Stuart in today’s Slow Baja conversation. Brandon owns and operates TopoTerra, a leading off-grid vehicle and camping gear rental provider. Based in San Diego...
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Zihul Martinez Whales Cave Paintings And Knives from 2023-09-06T16:58:45
Zihul Martinez is the man to know in Guerrero Negro. He is a highly-respected wilderness guide who can show you the whales, the cave paintings, the pronghorn, or, as he says, "the magic of ...
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Blake Wilkey And Michael Squier On The Slow Baja Safari And Urban Assault 3 Tijuana from 2023-08-17T15:40:42
Note: Strong language warning. We bleeped the F-bombs but left the other swear words unbleeped!
In this Slow Baja Podcast conversation, I sit down with off-ro...
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Adam Sheard Speed Deluxe Vintage Motorcycle Adventures from 2023-08-09T02:46:31
Adam Sheard, a Brit by birth, has always had an affinity for old vehicles. He runs Speed Deluxe, a full-service motorcycle shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, specializing in custom builds, restorat...
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Marty Harriman Baja By Horse from 2023-07-26T19:53:11
"Experience life in the old west with us, riding through 1000 acres of privately owned ranch land and wilderness. Wide open spaces, epic vistas, and sightings of grass-fed cattle, pastu...
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Evan Christenson A Slow Ride On The Baja Divide from 2023-07-15T22:16:16
“Evan Christenson is a dirtbag who believes that the slower you ride, the more you take away. He’s also a photographer and a burnt-out roadie who’s bikepacked on four continents.”
-Bikepa...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Hotel Seven Crown La Paz Malecon from 2023-07-10T03:44:04
The Hotel Seven Crown is an laid-back boutique hotel beautifully located on the famous La Paz Malecon. With clean architectural lines and updated rooms, some featuring spectacular bay views. A s...
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Patty Upton On Her Guinness Record For The First All-Land Crossing Of The Infamous Darién Gap And Around The World Drive from 2023-06-29T20:00:10
When Patty Mercier jumped in Loren Upton’s 1966 Jeep CJ5, she knew she was in for an adventure. The man behind the wheel was on his fourth attempt to cross the Darién Gap. The first three trips ...
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Mary McGee Motorsports Pioneer And Baja Racing Legend from 2023-06-01T20:56:52
Please enjoy this archive edition of Slow Baja with Mary McGee. The Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame just voted McGee into the class of 2023, and I am delighted to share this Slow Baja conversa...
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Johnny Johnson Baja In His Blood from 2023-04-30T12:01:04
Johnny Johnson was one of the early champions in off-road racing. With 112 career victories, and eight Baja 1000’s where he proudly claims “l never got out of the car!” Johnson was one of the ve...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Nathan Burbey Casa Concepcion B & B from 2023-04-24T16:38:21
Meet Nathan Burbey of Casa Concepcion B & B in today's travel talk with Slow Baja. In our conversation, we discuss his history in Bahia Concepcion. --Nathan's father owns the restaur...
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Surfer Glen Horn A Study In Slow Baja from 2023-04-12T03:30:05
Glen Horn is about as Slow Baja as it gets. He has prioritized a life filled with surfing, physical fitness, and living modestly and in harmony with nature. After moving to San Diego as a "...
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Ivan "Ironman" Stewart Baja It's All About The Adventure from 2023-04-03T12:04:33
For most off-road racing fans, Ivan “Ironman” Stewart needs no introduction. Stewart utterly dominated off-road and stadium racing in the 1980s and 90s. Born in 1945, Stewart grew up in East County...
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Pauline Marguerite Wickham The Mule Mujer Of BDLA from 2023-03-24T17:00:50
Today’s show is with Pauline Marguerite Wickham --Paulina, as she’s known in Baja, is a retired “child-whisperer,” having taught for over 35 years. She resides full-time in Bahía de Los Angeles,...
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Gabe Erivez Agave Expeditions Adventure Tourism Outfitter from 2022-04-08T01:19:41
Agave Expeditions Gabe Erivez is an adventure tourism outfitter who leads with his heart. With over a decade of professional guiding experience in Patagonia, Iceland, and Baja California, Erivez...
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Natalia Badan Rancho El Mogor The Soul Of Valle de Guadalupe from 2022-04-01T20:48:02
Natalia Badan has spent her life on Rancho El Mogor, the vineyard and organic farm her Swiss-French parents built nearly seven decades ago. "We are romantics and have always been a little ec...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Javier Martinez Of Boules Restaurant Ensenada from 2022-03-25T05:04:53
Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Javier Martinez, owner of Boules Restaurant.
Today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja has me chatting with Javier Martinez, owner of Boules Restaurant in Ensenad...
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Brook Elgen Artist Illustrator Maker-Of-Things from 2022-03-18T00:41:53
Brook Elgen is an illustrator, artist, and maker-of-things who splits her time between Mendocino, California, and Zacatitos, Baja California Sur. She specializes in handmade goods in a diverse a...
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Luck Beats Good More Baja Tales With Pete Springer from 2022-03-11T03:42:06
81-year-old Pete Springer has been a frequent visitor to Baja for over 60 years. He watched the 1969 Baja 1000 and raced a home built-single-seat buggy in 1970. He continued building and running...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Collin Corrigan Cerveceria Transpeninsular. from 2022-03-03T20:19:23
Today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja has me chatting with Collin Corrigan, the owner of Cerveceria Transpeninsular in Ensenada, Baja, California. I sat down with Collin to learn more about the cra...
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Sculptor Benito Ortega Vargas The Most Interesting Man In Todos Santos B.C.S. from 2022-02-11T04:29:54
Benito Ortega Vargas was born in Mexico City in 1951. At an early age, he displayed a penchant for making art. He felt that art was his calling and eventually chose sculpture as his method of ex...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Daniel And Paola From Antonio's Eco Tours from 2022-02-04T05:54:26
Today's Travel-talk with Slow Baja features Paola and Daniel from Antonio's Eco Tours in San Ignacio. Daniel's father, Antonio, founded whale-watching in San Ignacio Lagoon nearly three decades ago...
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Mr. Dune Buggy Jim Chamberlain from 2022-01-29T00:30:14
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Finding Chango The Surf Monkey Fellowship With Beth Slevcove from 2022-01-19T17:49:12
“Chango,” the twelve-inch tall, plaster-of-paris, irregularly painted statuette, first appeared in the San Ysidro border traffic lines during the early 1970s as street vendors hawked them to...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Iran Leonardo Verdugo Director of Tourism for Rosarito Baja California from 2021-12-31T03:42:59
Today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja has me chatting with Iran Leonardo Verdugo, Director of Tourism for Rosarito Baja, California. I wanted to sit down with Iran to learn more about Rosarito's pi...
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Dirt Sunrise Update With Overlanders Extraordinaire Tim And Kelsey Huber from 2021-12-24T01:32:57
After I ran into Tim and Kelsey Huber twice recently, I had to get them to sit down on Slow Baja to give us an update on their travels.
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Pacific Overlander Delivers World-Class Travel Experiences from 2021-12-17T23:30:23
On today's Travel Talk we sit down with Mason Schreck and Gabe Erivez from Pacific Overlander Expedition Vehicles. Pacific Overlander offers fly-and-drive adventures made accessible through turn...
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GHA Racing 2021 SCORE International Class 11 Champions from 2021-12-10T22:57:33
Today’s podcast discusses GHA Racing’s Class 11 Championship winning Season. While most racers start racing slower and less expensive vehicles and move up to faster and more costly classes, GHA ...
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A Valle de Guadalupe Update With Tru Miller Adobe Guadalupe Vineyards and Inn from 2021-12-03T18:43:37
In our second conversation with Tru Miller, we discuss how her Adobe Guadalupe Vinyard and Inn has fared during the pandemic and what's ahead for 2022. Joining us are Claudia, who handles reserv...
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Filmmaker Michael Squier On The Baja Bug Movie from 2021-11-29T02:49:07
Michael Squier is a filmmaker and storyteller. In this podcast, we discuss his ambitious film project, The Baja Bug Movie. The project tells the story of the humble VW Beetle and the people who ...
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Noel Morales And Rachel Glueck On El Refugio Mezcaleria And Their Fabulous Cookbook The Native Mexican Kitchen from 2021-11-12T05:16:36
Today you are getting a double feature on Slow Baja, the first is with Noel Morales owner, cook, owner and chief personality at El Refugio Mezcaleria...
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Lynn Chenowth On Building Cars And His Beautiful Legacy Lodge And Museum from 2021-11-05T04:37:13
Lynn Chenowth is a pioneer off-road chassis and vehicle builder whose factory-backed and private Chenowth cars have taken many of the sport's greatest drivers to off-road racing's biggest vi...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Paul And Bonnie Owners Of Ignacio Springs Resort from 2021-10-27T17:27:18
Today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja has me chatting with Paul and Bonnie, owners of Ignacio Springs Resort in San Ignacio, BC Sur. In the heart of the Palmera, on the bank of the tranquil Rio San...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Keith Berkley Owner Of The Black Bass Lodge from 2021-10-22T22:18:51
Today’s Travel Talk with Slow Baja has us on a ZOOM call with Keith Berkley, owner of The Black Bass Lodge in Punta Abreojos. As a child, Berkley grew up camping and exploring Baja with his pare...
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Forty Years Of Surfing Punta Abreojos With Craig Larson And Mark Pestrella from 2021-10-14T21:32:08
Craig Larson and Mark Pestrella have been surfing Punta Abreojos together for more than 40 years. Inspired by Bruce Brown's Endless Summer, they've been seeking waves and finding adventures alon...
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Chef Javier Plascencia On Surfing Todos Santos And His Restaurants Jazamango and Jazamango Cafe from 2021-09-28T03:25:04
In our second conversation with Chef Javier Plascencia, we discuss his restaurants Jazamango and Jazamango Cafe, and the bounty of Todos Santos. We go deep on his devotion to surfing, how he's h...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Chef Mattia Makes The Best Pizza In Baja! from 2021-09-22T03:28:21
Today’s Travel Talk with Slow Baja meets Chef Mattia, pizza maker extraordinaire in San Juanico B.C.S. Italian-born Chef Matti crafts wood-fired pizzas in his custom-made pizza oven on a Russian...
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Filmmaker Trudi Angell On La Recua Her Intimate Documentary About One Old Rancher's Dream To Run A Traditional Mule Train from 2021-09-16T04:53:22
In our second conversation with Trudi Angell, we discuss La Recua, her tribute to a fading history and documentary film about the old-time mule-packers in Baja California Sur.
The film fo...
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John Davis Hit Bottom And Made The Turn: Surfing Addiction Recovery And Three Years Spent In A Mexican Prison from 2021-09-08T06:26:04
John Davis started surfing at twelve and began winning local competitions soon after. He moved to Huntington Beach to attend High School and became the Captain of Huntington High School’s first ...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Yolanda Contreras GM Of The Guaycura Boutique Hotel Beach Club And Spa Todos Santos B.C.S. from 2021-09-01T05:06:19
In today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down for a quick chat with Yolonda Contreras, General Manager of the Guaycura Boutique Hotel...
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Photographer Boyd Jaynes On Baja NORRA And Why Satan Drives A Bronco from 2021-08-22T22:20:31
Boyd Jaynes is a Southern California-based photographer and the creative director of Dusty Times Magazine. His professional bio reads, "When not shooting, he enjoys traveling to far-flung beache...
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Mike Younghusband On His Epic 1147-Mile Baja Trek from 2021-08-17T17:23:35
"Life's an adventure; go out and enjoy it."-Mike Younghusband
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Talking Trash And Conservation With Zach Plopper Of WILDCOAST.ORG from 2021-08-10T04:06:38
In our second conversation with Zach Plopper, Associate Director of WILDCOAST.org, we learn about the exciting new trash collection project on the Tijuana River. With funding by the Benioff Ocea...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet Matt Frick Of Camp4Lo Baja Off Road Tours from 2021-08-05T22:53:31
Matt Frick is an old Baja hand who runs the off-road tour company, Camp4Lo. We ran into each other recently at a stop sign in San Felipe. After exchanging greet...
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Baja Adventures Tijuana Taco Meetup With Javier Alejandro Inzunza And Polo Sanmiguel from 2021-07-29T20:08:41
Javier Alejandro Inzunza and Leopoldo (Polo) Sanmiguel are...
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Jonas Deichmann World-Class Endurance Athlete On His Run From Tijuana To La Paz During His Round-The-World Triathlon from 2021-07-25T22:26:03
Jonas Deichmann is a world-class endurance athlete. He is currently running a Munich to Munich Triathlon that is 120 times the distance of an Ironman Triathlon.
We caught up with hi...
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Eve Ewing Shares Tales From Her 70 Years Of Baja Exploration. from 2021-07-09T06:28:42
In our second conversation with Eve Ewing, she shares more stories from her 70 years of Baja adventures. From her 1950's flights to count whales with her father, legendary Oceanographer Gifford ...
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Author Graham Mackintosh On His Famed Book Into A Desert Place from 2021-06-25T20:29:01
"The key to victory is throwing yourself at it and see what happens." Napoleon
Graham Mackintosh won the UK Adventurous Traveller of the Year Award in 1987 for his walk a...
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Idiot Racing Take On The SCORE Baja 500 In A Home Built Class 11 VW Beetle And Live To Tell The (Amazing) Tale from 2021-06-20T00:57:19
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
— Doug Larson
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja Meet The Benchmark Maps Team That Created The New Baja California Road And Recreation Atlas from 2021-06-15T23:59:13
Today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we chat with the team behind the new Benchmark Maps Baja California Road and Recreation Atlas. Cartographer Neil Allen, Bridger De Ville, Director of Sales an...
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Talk Baja Founder Ron Hoff Shares His Love For San Quintin from 2021-06-09T19:27:13
Ron Gomez Hoff is the founder of the website and Facebook page Talk Baja. A Southern California native, Hoff fell in love with Baja as a teenager on a scouting trip in 1968. After high school, a...
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Talk Baja Founder Ron Gomez Hoff Shares His Love For San Quintin from 2021-06-09T19:27:13
Ron Gomez Hoff is the founder of the website and Facebook page Talk Baja. A Southern California native, Hoff fell in love with Baja as a teenager on a scouting trip in 1968. After high school, a...
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Everything You Want To Know About Slow Baja And Host Michael Emery from 2021-05-22T05:18:07
Hey amigos, it's hard to believe that is's been a year since Slow Baja got picked up on Apple iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcast. I wanted to take a moment to say a hearty THANKS for listening....
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RVing Baja Exceeds All Expectations With Nicole Demme Kapturowski from 2021-05-14T20:36:29
Nicole Demme Kapturowski is an avid RV enthusiast who recently spent a month exploring Baja with her parents, husband, and two teenaged children. The family caravan consisted of a dual-cab picku...
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San Juanico Surf Society Jeffrey Westman On Building Community And A Danish-Inspired Dream Retreat from 2021-05-07T15:40:46
Jeffrey Westman arrived in San Juanico as a 19-year-old on a surf trip and fell in love with it. The teen dreamed of finding a surf shack and staying forever. Not surprisingly, college and a car...
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A Conversation With Author And Cancer Survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby The Mission Walker A 1600 Mile Journey On The El Camino Real from 2021-04-29T20:50:16
Edie Littlefield Sundby has been a great friend to Slow Baja. Since I originally aired my conversation with her in July of last year, she has introduced me to many of her Baja community. A few h...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja We Meet The Famous Edson from 2021-04-16T21:08:21
Twenty-three-year-old Edson Romero may be the most famous resident of beautiful San Ignacio. His parents, Jackie and Gery, own Edson Ice Cream Shop, a must-stop when traveling through the oasis ...
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Team Five Dolla High Five Take On The 2021 BajaXL Rally from 2021-04-09T04:12:53
Three amigos take on the 3000-mile BajaXL Rally in a thirty-year-old Land Cruiser. Hear the unvarnished (and slightly exhausted) take on ten days of brutal Baja backroads, police actions, govern...
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Outfitter Trudi Angell Talks About Making The Film La Recua And 40-Years Of Paddling And Saddling In Baja from 2021-04-05T19:24:42
Now that "La Recua" is finished and making the film festival rounds, I thought I would share this conversation with Trudi Angel again. Angell has been ...
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Racer Roger Mears On Bakersfield Baja His Famous Brother And The Mears Gang from 2021-03-27T01:52:02
Inducted in the 2020 Off-Road Motorsports Hall Of Fame, Roger Mears is the eldest son of racer Bill Mears and the older brother of four-time Indiana...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja We Tell You About Our Stay At The Beautiful Tesoro Resort Los Cabos from 2021-03-23T21:21:39
In today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down for a quick chat with Marlen Ahumada, Sales Director of the Tesoro Res...
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Photographer Miguel Ángel de la Cueva A Passion For Wild Baja from 2021-03-18T20:18:36
Miguel Ángel de la Cueva is a profoundly thoughtful photographer who focuses on Mexico’s natural beauty, wildlife, and remote ranch-dwelling people. National Geographic,&n...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja We Talk To Jesse Atkinson Owner Of Ensenada Massage from 2021-03-15T04:08:53
In today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down with Jesse Atkinson, massage therapist, and owner of Ensenada Massage and Listen
Curt LeDuc Salt Of The Earth Off-Road Racer from 2021-03-05T05:16:44
Curt LeDuc is a salt-of-the-earth Baja racer with an impressive record of DIY accomplishments in off-road racing. When asked about his approach to building winning racers, LeDuc said, “I’m not an e...
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Riding The Baja Divide With Cyclist Herb Bool from 2021-02-26T05:24:28
Today’s podcast guest is life-long cyclist Herb Bool. In 2018, at 55 years old, Bool rode the 1,700 mile Baja Divide in 35 days. Conceived by ultra-endurance bicycle racer Lael Wilcox and Nichol...
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Travel Talk With Slow Baja We Visit Zopilotes Ice Cream In San Bartolo BCS from 2021-02-24T04:32:54
In today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down with Sheila, the gregarious owner of Zopilotes Ice Cream in San Bartolo BCS. Originally from Salmon Arm, BC, Canada, Sheila, and her husband fi...
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Travel Talk Steve Hayward From Paddling South Outfitters On Exploring The Gulf Of California from 2021-02-12T00:44:10
In today’s Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down with guide and outfitter Steve Hayward of Paddling South in Loreto, Baja California Sur.
Hayward has traveled extensively and has paddle...
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The Desert Dutchmen Fly And Drive The BajaXL Rally With Style from 2021-01-28T09:27:15
Marshall Kramer, Jamie Wolgemguth, and Craig Dieffenbach are The Desert Dutchmen; on today's Slow Baja Podcast, they break down their drive of the 2019 Baja XL Rally. The trio from Schaefferstown, ...
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On A Mission With David Kier from 2021-01-17T19:25:26
David Kier is a historian, cartographer, and expert on the Missions of Baja. As a young boy in the early ’60s, he began traveling to Baja with his parents. Wedged between his parents in their Je...
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Mad Dogs and English Bikes -Racing Vintage Dirt Bikes with Hayden Roberts Scott Toepfer and Joy Lewis from 2021-01-05T06:16:50
Happy New Year! Thanks for tuning into Slow Baja. As I prepare for the upcoming Baja XL Rally, I wanted to share o...
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Christian Beamish The Voyage Of The Cormorant: A Memoir of the Changeable Sea from 2020-12-23T23:49:23
“The wind still hurled us down the coast, the occasional tendril of kelp wrapping the rudder blade like a tentacle and then breaking free with the inexorable force of our momentum. Though my...
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Professor Paul Ganster A Half-Century Of Love For Loreto from 2020-12-15T20:07:05
Paul Ganster began traveling to Mexico with his friend and former high school teacher, Harry Crosby, in the early 1960s. When Crosby landed his 1967 commission to photograph the El Camino Real, he ...
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Sarah And Jesse Beck A Baja Love Story from 2020-12-04T05:32:06
Jesse and Sarah Beck met while surfing in San Juanico when they were teenagers. Jesse had been going to Baja since he was a baby. After a few years camping in various spots, Sarah's family had r...
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Cameron Steele Off Road Racer And Baja's Biggest Ambassador from 2020-11-19T20:34:25
"Long before social media, Cameron Steele was doing social media. He is one of off-road's early cross over pioneers, sharing his love for desert racing, adventure travel, and all things Baja wit...
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Travel Talk With Massimo Zaretti Owner Of Il Massimo Cucina Italiana In Ensenada from 2020-11-17T23:50:33
In today's Travel Talk with Slow Baja, we sit down with Ensenada Restaurateur and Chef Massimo Zaretti. Born in Rome, Zaretti moved to Las Vegas with his family when he was a teenager. He grew u...
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Travel Talk We Get An Update On The 2021 Baja XL Rally From Andrew Szabo from 2020-11-11T03:19:16
Andrew Szabo created the zany Budapest-to-Bamako Rally and the 3000-mile-no-support-Baja XL Rally. In this podcast, Szabo gives us an update on the latest developments for the 2021 Baja XL Rally...
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The Soul Of Baja Chef And Restaurateur Javier Plascencia from 2020-11-06T20:03:37
Javier Plascencia’s first book, The Soul of Baja, describes his approach to life (and cooking) like this, “...
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Tru Miller On Wine and Angels At Adobe Guadalupe Vineyards and Inn from 2020-10-26T23:00:47
Tru Miller, the lovely and gregarious owner of Adobe Guadalupe Vineyards and Inn, is the Grande Dame of Baja’s wine region. Originally from the Netherlands, Tru spent much of her youth exploring...
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Getting Dirty With Gerald Lee Savvy OffRoad from 2020-10-09T02:28:18
We met Gerald Lee in Ensenada, at the October 2019 NORRA 500 Rally. Lee and Kansas native, Miles Hasselquist, competed in a Ford ...
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Shari Bondy Sharing The Magic Of Whale Watching from 2020-09-24T18:38:48
Shari Bondy has been studying whales for more than thirty years. At eighteen-years-old, she moved to Vancouver Island, British Colombia, from Ontario, Canada. She wanted to get close to whales and ...
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Malcolm Smith Motorcycle And Off Road Racing Legend from 2020-09-17T19:47:45
Malcolm Smith is probably the greatest name in American off-road racing. He’s won more races in more places on both two wheels and four. Smith’s list of racing achievements is stunning. Between ...
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From Tecate To Tierra del Fuego With Overlanders Tim And Kelsey Huber Of Dirt Sunrise from 2020-09-11T22:16:20
Tim and Kelsey Huber bill themselves as two ordinary people living an extraordinary life. For the last two years, they've lived in "Goose," a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser modified for camping with a...
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Sarah Beck A Moms Guide To Traveling Baja from 2020-08-29T02:46:53
When she was ten years-old, Sarah Beck began traveling to Baja with her family to escape the drizzly Oregon winters. After several trips, they decided to put down roots and moved to San Juanico....
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Pete Springer Winner Of The 1973 Baja 1000 from 2020-08-19T18:02:57
79-year-old Pete Springer has been traveling to Baja for over 60 years. He attended the 1969 Mexican 1000 as a spectator, raced a home-built single-seater in 1970, and won the Baja 1000 in 1973!...
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Eve Ewing On Exploring Baja By Mule from 2020-08-11T04:14:39
Eighty-four-year-old Eve Ewing made her first trip to Baja in the back seat of her father's plane in 1952. Her father, the legendary Oceanographer Gifford Ewing, would fly his plane down annuall...
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WILDCOAST's Zach Plopper On Conserving Wildlife and Wild Lands in Mexico from 2020-08-03T23:06:02
Zachary Plopper is the Associate Director of WILDCOAST, a 501c3 non-profit organization that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife in the United States, Cuba and Mexico. An avid s...
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Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Tournament the Super-Bowl of Billfishing. from 2020-07-28T06:00:22
Sports Illustrated called Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Tournament the “Super-Bowl of Billfishing.” Now in its 40th year, with prizes and payouts in the millions of dollars, it is the richest...
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Outfitter Trudi Angell Talks About Forty Years Of Paddling and Saddling In Baja from 2020-07-22T17:54:55
Trudi Angell has been living in Baja since the mid-'70s. She made her first trip South to attend a 12-day Sea Kayaking course at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Mulegé. Angell fell in ...
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Mike Pearlman On The NORRA Mexican 1000 The Happiest Race On Earth from 2020-07-14T01:41:13
Mike Pearlman, talking about NORRA Mexican 1000, and the making of the Happiest Race on Earth. In the early 1960's, Mike Pearlman was a teenager growing up in Los Angeles when his father, Ed Pea...
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Author And Cancer Survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby The Mission Walker A 1600-Mile Journey On The El Camino Real From Loreto Mexico To Sonoma California from 2020-07-06T23:13:27
Edie Littlefield Sundby was arrogantly healthy when she received word that she had stage-four gallbladder cancer. The doctors gave her three months to live. "I had to kill cancer before it kille...
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Sportfishing With Jonathan Roldan And TailHunter International from 2020-06-29T23:23:39
When Jonathan Roldan was departing for a year-long job at a remote hotel on the East Cape of Baja, he needed a break. He had already had multiple careers as a fishing guide, deckhand, chef, broa...
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Off-Road Racing Wonderkid Jax Redline from 2020-06-21T16:34:38
In this Father's Day Edition of Slow Baja, we talk to fifteen-year-old off-road racer Jax Redline. At two-years-old, he started riding a Yamaha PW50 dirt bike with training wheels. He was so fas...
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Author And Historian David Kier Reflects On Fifty Years Of Baja Travel from 2020-06-15T01:51:33
David Kier is a humble historian who has been traveling to Baja since the early '60s. With a copy of Gerhard and Gulick's Lower California Guide Book -known as the "Baja Bible," he sat between h...
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Living The Dream With Geoff Hill Baja Bound Insurance from 2020-06-06T01:02:14
Geoff Hill is not your average Insurance agent. Since his first surf trip in 1990, he hasn't been able to escape Baja's pull. After surfing his way to a degree at UCSD, he joined Baja Bound Insu...
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Dog Rescue In Baja With Stephanie Nisan Founder Of The Animal Pad from 2020-05-30T18:32:07
Stephanie Nisan founded The Animal Pad (TAP) in 2010 after adopting a dog that was about to be euthanized. TAP is an all volunteer-run 501c3 non-profit that rescues dogs from the streets of Tiju...
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Mad Dogs & English Bikes Racing Vintage Dirt Bikes with Hayden Roberts, Scott Toepfer, & Joy Lewis from 2020-05-14T22:26:16
Hayden Roberts and Scott Toepfer race mid-’60s vintage British Dirt Bikes in events like the NORRA Mexican 1000, NORRA Baja 500, and The Mint 400. Roberts, originally from England, is now a fixt...
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The 3000-Mile-No-Support Baja XL Rally with Andrew Szabo from 2020-05-10T01:41:05
Andrew Szabo created the zany Budapest-to-Bamako Rally and the 3000-mile-no-support-Baja XL Rally. In this podcast, we discuss adventure travel, Africa, Baja, off-roading, and how not to get sho...
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Ruben Hernandez Founder BCB Tasting Room in Tijuana from 2020-05-10T01:31:13
Ruben Valenzuela Hernandez is the owner of the BCB Tasting Room in Tijuana. With 42 beers on tap and another 400 in bottles, BCB is a mecca for craft beer drinkers from both sides of the border....
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Talking Chocolate at Casa Cacao in Tijuana from 2020-05-10T01:28:36
Recently Slow Baja spent a day exploring Tijuana. We had a great time eating, drinking, and recording. Our first stop was at the charming Casa Cacao for a late breakfast. The artisanal chocolate...
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Slow Baja - Art and Tacos with Adalberto Pérez Meillón from 2020-05-01T21:49:39
Adalberto Pérez Mellión is an artist and printmaker who operates Taller Pérez Mellión—initially opened as Galleria Pérez Mellión in 1988. In the beginning, he specialized in selling the art and ...
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