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Struck gold south of the border
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Struck gold south of the border
If you didn’t know by now, my name is Ron and I have lived down here in Mexico for the last 20 years where I would meet the love of my life Cristina in a cooking class in Tijuana and we are now sharing our 18th year of married bliss together. We have lived here at La Chorera, a small fishing community outside of San Quintin, for the last 15 years where we built our off-grid home and share it with a menagerie of 3 Dobermans and 9 rescue cats.
I need to also mention “Chappy”, a small young dog we are fostering currently and will be working to help her find her permanent family very soon.
Besides my work managing the Talk Baja community, while living here at La Chorera I have volunteered to work on an abalone restoration project out at San Martin as well as managed a pilot test program, successfully growing giant keyhole limpets in an aquaculture facility in a study for the FDA in coordination with a U.S. biotech firm in between teaching English to different grade levels at our local schools out here at the beach.
And just to make sure I never have a single moment to kick back and relax, I recently took on a restoration project, a 1990 Ford F150 4×4 with a straight 6 4.9L and manual transmission with a 5th gear (a rare combination) which I found covered in dirt, sitting behind a house up on the hill in El Rosario a few months back. It’s not going to be an authentic restoration project with hopes of producing a showpiece truck but if you saw this thing when we pulled it out from under the tree and shoveled the dirt out of it – just to see what color it was – you would understand what a task I have in the weeks and months ahead.
In spite of it all, I know that I truly am a blessed man in so many ways, and still pinch myself every morning when I get up out of bed.
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Man, you are busy. Do you ever plan to just retire and go fishing or something?
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While I do love to go fishing with my pals, just sitting around and doing nothing doesn’t work for me. I need to have things to do, it must be in my DNA.
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I’m impressed! So what was the limpet thing all about, what purpose?
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That was a collaboration project we were involved with a few years back. It’s a long story that I might make a separate post about. If you want to know a little bit more about the project, here is an article that covered the project originally reported by my good friend Sandra Dibble and was picked up by several major newspapers across the country as well as covered on CNN.
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That’s quite impressive! Is the project still ongoing?
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No, our collaboration partner was bought out by a Canadian biotech who has placed the project on hold for now.
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And you should do a thread on your restoration project – that’s a great truck if it still runs!
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I just might do that although I don’t have photos of some of the first steps, but I could fill that in.
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You are a man of many talents.
I have been through San Quintin several times but can’t place La Chorera, where is that exactly?
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La Chorera is located on the coast west-soutwest of San Quintin facing San Martin Island. To get here, turn west at the military base in Lazaro Cardenas and follow the dirt road out for about 15 miles, around the bay until you reach the coastline and you’re there.
Most people didn’t know where it was until more recently when a seafood village started taking roots, now bringing in travelers from the world over while still maintaining its simple and basic essence, offering the very best in fresh seafood, served to you just steps from a sandy beach.
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We will definitely add that to our itinerary next trip south.
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Let me know in advance and I will try to meet you…
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You teach English in the schools there? Do you have teaching credentials? Are you fluent in Spanish?
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No, I don’t have credentials and yes, I am 100% fluent.
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