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jr rogers's avatar

Standing and applauding. Dang, Lee, can't play Top This with you. You newspaper guys have all the fun.

My Zona Norte (which is zona roja in my memory for some reason) story pales but does involve the total, though temporary, ruin of one poor hapless innocent's life, and whatever he likely picked up that night wasn't going to help.

When you were punching your frequent stay card at Rosarita, were they working on the main road through town? I think that road work started in the 70s and is still going. Rosarita Beach was the first and only place I've ever seen the road sign advising BURROS TRABAJANDO. Can't say I ever say any burros actually working though.

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Lee Judge's avatar

Can't take too much credit, Alex Drehsler was a real-life adventurer and Invited me along occasionally. And, yeah, I do remember road work being done and them pushing beer cans into the piles of gravel and whatnot so your headlights would pick up the shiny bottoms and turn them into warning reflectors when you were weaving your way home from Ensenada. Also remember driving between Tijuana and Tecate and the freeway just unexpectedly ending and my car flying off a couple foot drop onto dirt and rocks. Never saw a BURROS TRABAJANDO that wasn't painted like a Zebra and having its picture taken with some dumbass Anglo on it's back.

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Dan Walden's avatar

Sounded like great fun..when ur in ur 20's-30's when ur too stupid to know or care how dangerous some things were

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Lee Judge's avatar

But what's it mean when you're still doing that stuff in your 60s? back then it was stupidity, now it's "Well, you gotta go sometime."

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Dan Walden's avatar

Agreed.. I still do stupid stuff in my 60's

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Lee Judge's avatar

Good for you. You have to grow older, but nuthin' says you have to grow up.

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