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[81Sprint]

That's where we stayed when the buddies were cuffed.
I started to go to Cabo in the 80's when the only hotels were The Hacienda, Finestera and Solimar. No marina, no stop lights, dirt road from the airport and you bought a bucket of Coronas for the trip. You always caught a Marlin.

Me and the wife got married on the beach at the Solimar, was an awesome hotel till they took it down and built a "resort", Finisterra also a great hotel.

 

[SnoC653]

So what happens if you get caught in Mexico without the proper papers? Just asking for a friend that thinks they give you gov't aid and free medical like we do for them.

 

[poncho]

That's when I really enjoyed Cabo, old Cabo and giant lobsters out at the Trailer Park. Mean looking teen soldiers with M16 at the scales I stayed at the old Finestera once, loved drinking beers watching the frigate birds dive bomb the bait schools off the beach. Then we found cheap, but really clean rooms at the Mar De Cortez downtown and it wasn't many stumbles from the Marlin Club

Had a Wife that flew for Alaska Airlines, rent a Yamaha BW200 for $40.00 a day in front of the Plaza Las Glorias. Ended most every night at the Trailer park, quart sized margarita's....that was one hell of a fun place back in the day.

 

[TPC]

One swing may have taken out the nut sac:

 

[Mandelon]

I enjoy the vacation times down there. Don't fuck with the drug narcos though. I've had two of my former employees murdered by them. Both did a drug deal that went bad and the bosses didn't like it. Both guys were beaten to death.

But stay in the tourist areas, don't do stupid things and problems are pretty rare. I've driven down dozens of times. Only had to pay a cop $20 once.

 

[boatdoc55]

Inflation.... cost me $10 to pay off a San Felipe cop for trailer tail light out in the late 1980s

Another time...south of the border

A couple guys and I drove to Cabo in the 80s.. A friend drove his Uniflite (the "Tio Lee") to Cabo for the winter and needed a vehicle while he was there so we volunteered to drive a truck to Cabo

On the way down we stopped in Ensenada to get our papers validated... the office was closed so we said.. what the fuk and proceeded south

3 days and nights of great times, small town food and drink and no issues...... until ..........

Few more days of fishing and drinking.. it was all good until we had to fly home and did not have the proper validation.... which we failed to get in Ensenada..

"No problem" our skipper said....

Off we go to the Cabo immigration office.. It cost us a "Tio Lee" ball cap to get our papers fixed..... good times

Same story here. 4 of us trailered a 23' Blackmans Fish Machine down to the Cape in 81'. When we went thru TJ at midnight and went thru a light that turned red with the trailer still in it. They pulled us over and all I heard from inside the camper shell over the bed of the truck was the owner of the boat say "give the fucking boat a ticket then" OH CHIT we're going to jail. Cost him $25.00 and off we went. Got to Ensenada and the damn check-in place was closed so we just kept rollin'.

Well 10 days later my buddy and I were supposed to fly home but the check-in/ check-out guy at the thatched roof terminal in San Jose Del Cabo said in broken English, "you two ain't going anywhere till I see your papers from where you checked in. Honest to God he said go back and sign in. Holy Chit now what. There we stood, airplane running and WAITING for the last two passengers and he finally said he could let us slip by if we had $50.00 each. We made the flight to the cheers of all the rest of the passengers. Two good things about down there back then, the fishing was fricking amazing and the beer was about 13 cents a bottle. We paid more for the ice than we did the beer.

 

[DLC]

Club Bar Miramar and Rueben's! Brings back some great memories of the early 80's. Both places that were easy places to get in trouble!!!!

we spent a lot of time down there!

one trip for spring break we were Juniors in high school, my mom and dad planned a family trip down and I invited a buddy he invited a buddy etc I had 22 friends with my mom and dad and 2 of their friends.... it was the best time!

we had fresh shrimp ( garlic butter salsa tortillas) for dinner every night and fresh hot tamales, Salsa and Coronas for breakfast!

living large at 17!

 

[500bbc]

Me and the wife got married on the beach at the Solimar, was an awesome hotel till they took it down and built a "resort", Finisterra also a great hotel.

The Solmar was a great old school hotel until they fucked it up. Haven't been to Cabo since.

 

[cofooter]

we spent a lot of time down there!

one trip for spring break we were Juniors in high school, my mom and dad planned a family trip down and I invited a buddy he invited a buddy etc I had 22 friends with my mom and dad and 2 of their friends.... it was the best time!

we had fresh shrimp ( garlic butter salsa tortillas) for dinner every night and fresh hot tamales, Salsa and Coronas for breakfast!

living large at 17!

Haha, found this, fun times at Rubins in the early 80's. I'd go down there aga

in in a heartbeat, been 25 yrs...........

 

[DLC]

When we graduated HS in 87 we went to Mazatlan for our big graduation trip, we had about 85 from our class all go! It was a blast! Somehow we got a 3 room suite and filled the bathtub up with corona and Pacifico’s, we would took 2 duffel bags to the liquor store and filled em up every 2-3 days with beers, the hotel wouldn’t allow cases of beer so we went undercover!

it was a great time! One of my buds nailed this smoken hot chick on the 1st night and she gave him crabs ! He was bitchen up a storm about it and after the 3rd day we were let’s get some crab burritos for lunch ...... he was so pissed and we wouldnt let it go!

I was 18 and it was June of 1987! My friends mom picked us up at the airport and we were like we need a caguama for the ride home!

caguama is a 40 oz bottle in Mexico

 

[DLC]

that is great! On the weekends an old lady would walk thru the camp selling fresh hot tamales... we were there off/on from 82-88

Haha, found this, fun times at Rubins in the early 80's. I'd go down there aga View attachment 968824 in in a heartbeat, been 25 yrs...........

 

[was thatguy]

That was the standard TJ shake down.... nothing more.... I had to learn that way as well. Hated watching that but the van would always be shaken down and those rosta hairdos are an invitation for sure. When I saw them go get all that cash exchanged I figured they didn't know to hide the bulk of it. Unfortunately they'll come back penniless and will never return to Baja ..... That stop could've been a $50 bribe in experienced hands. Learning curve

Exactly.
And that’s just entering!
Imagine the shake downs that await from there!
They don’t stand a chance. Lol

I drove to Cabo once...stayed in Toto Santos for like 2 months at San padrito rv park. $2 a night for a beach spot with a palapa.
I’d say we went through maybe 6-8 full blown army checkpoints. Some were complete searches, some were painless.
After the second one I got some tips from some RV campers.
From there on at the army stops we would get out of the truck, whip open our camp chairs, open the little travel cooler and crack a Tecate. I’d leave a $20 on the seat and we never got tore down again.
I also skipped the Ensenada paper shuffle.
Got stopped at one point in the middle of nowhere by 2 guys with a weed sprayer and tyvek suit. They were sort of an agricultural looking station. Like the CA bug stations.
They asked for our paperwork,’said I didn’t have it.
They said $20 and we have to spray under your truck.
You got it chief! So the dude with the tore up Tyvek sprayed som water under it, I gave em 3 $10 bills and away we went.
In La Paz I got pulled over by LaPaz cop.
They had a line set up and were pulling over us plated cars.
Guy didn’t speak English so waved to follow him. Couple blocks up he pulls over in front on the station. Chief walks up and says “the officer says your passenger wasn’t wearing her seatbelt.”
“OK, how do we handle this?”
He whips out a xerox sheet with prices on it, like a menu, and says “That’s $40 US”.
You got it chief!
So I asked him if I get a copy of the citation or anything. He leans up to my truck window and says...
“Si Amigo...lets go in the Station and I’ll get that for you...if you want...”
NOPE! I’m good hefe!!

$500 at the damn border...they need to go back to the valley.

 

[poncho]

I enjoy the vacation times down there. Don't fuck with the drug narcos though. I've had two of my former employees murdered by them. Both did a drug deal that went bad and the bosses didn't like it. Both guys were beaten to death.

But stay in the tourist areas, don't do stupid things and problems are pretty rare. I've driven down dozens of times. Only had to pay a cop $20 once.

My Assistants son was recently murdered by them. He lives there and his son got mixed up with them years ago and wanted out. Jorge I know paid them a lot of money but apparently it wasn't enough.
He has a nice place, walled, gated, cameras all that.
They went into his house and killed his son while everyone slept, never heard a thing.

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[LazyLavey]

We were on this cruise. Almost booked the excursion but decided to walk the beach front and drink and crap shop. Cruise was way late leaving port. Excursion was thru the cruise.. https://www.wsmv.com/news/rutherfor...cle_6300b0f8-1556-11ea-8c28-5b42971e4279.html

scary chit

 

[Caydens Cat]

Fuckin Cantamar Trailer Park, Crazy times. late summer 66', three of us head down to surf. Drunken non-uniformed security cop at Cantamar picks a fight, I win, he pulls a 45 and he wins, and I end up in the Rosarito Jail. Fuck that place.
But I did made numerous trips fishing in Cabo in the 90's, great times without a single incident. View attachment 968744

Sucks that you had a bad experience in Cantamar. I have a condo there on the beach and never had any real issues with the locals. Well... except for one incident where pops tossed a guy off the balcony in the 80’s for breaking into our place in the middle of the night! [emoji2959]


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[Taboma]

Sucks that you had a bad experience in Cantamar. I have a condo there on the beach and never had any real issues with the locals. Well... except for one incident where pops tossed a guy off the balcony in the 80’s for breaking into our place in the middle of the night! [emoji2959]


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Remember, this was in 1966, and nobody in that park liked that normally drunk, armed security cop. When this fiasco started he was passed out on the beach, I guess we woke him up and he was stumbling around taking swings at folks. There's been plenty of previous issues with this guy according to park residents.
The park owner at the time was an American Doctor, very nice man and went out of his way to help me out of this situation HIS guard put me in.
American owner was apologizing for his guard's misconduct --- BUT, one of his employees had already called the cops. When the cops showed up, the American owner was shocked and not happy, but as he explained to me apologetically --- When they come, they don't have the discretion to return empty handed, so sorry young man --- ADIOS

Thanks to the owner's help and free attorney, we got it sorted out with a minimum fine to me for punching the asshole and larger punishment for the guard, requiring him to be uniformed.

Upon my release the park threw me a nice beach party