Base Campers, howdy !!! I can give an explanation about Cahuamos (please bear with me, it might take a while). First of all, thanks for the extra run time, that's great !!! Back to the subject at hand... Cahuamos. I belong to a plastic model group, SMJ (Sociedad de Modelistas Jaliciences) and like any group, we have a mascot, which is the Caguamo turtle (Caretta caretta). But the reason we picked the turtle is because we are all nicely rounded at the waist (not much exercise done when building models), so we say we have an inverted turtle shell (our bellies). And to be original, the name of the turtle was misspelled on purpose to Cahuamos. When I invited my group to participate with the WCG, only 2 members were interested and started but soon lost interest and I'm the sole survivor and only active member of the Cahuamos Team. So there you have it, I can now take questions
Thanks !
CJSL

Keep Calm ad Crunch !!!

Good Morning Base Campers!
No new Base Campers joined, none left.
But so far eight Base Campers have earned the badge
a suggestion is at the Badge Review Committee at the moment
– which with the brilliant information our host captain gave us now with justification proudly can depict a turtle.


Look, I’m completely flat.
How long ago is it you climbed the stairs from the basement to the 14th floor which is a total of 15 floors as Danish floors go?
And they are HIGH floors. I didn’t count, but at least 22 steps between them.
That was my 15th heart fitness session - one more to go.
They have made me stronger, and they have made me feel increasingly like one big sore, throbbing boil.
This kind of exercise doesn't agree with fibromyalgia. I knew beforehand, but I'm out of Viking genealogy.
I did those stairs yesterday, and I’m NOT running around anywhere today.
Which is a shame Spring arrived today here and I have a walk in mind which must wait until tomorrow.

I have contracted with six keepers of striped donkeys in Tijuana.
The robustest six striped donkeys in all of Tijuana.

You are grown men, and we don’t want these striped donkeys to hurt their backs when you’re riding around in Mexico City.
You are free to go anywhere without supervision and enjoy what you see at donkey pace.

Enjoy fruits and veggies with your eyes – peel them and scorch them if you also want to eat them


listen to the music


find colorful souvenirs to bring home


and if you insist on keeping the cultured flame burning, a visit to Museo Soumaya will be worth your while - if not inside, then outside; this addition is designed by Fernando Romero and the museum is owned by Carlos Slim probably the richest man in Mexico.

Have an enjoyable day – and would you, please, hand me the Room Service Menu,
check that there is a reasonable supply of gin&tonic in the minibar and wheel next to me?

Thank you

Good Morning Base Campers!
Tomorrow will be our peak day. I wonder if any new Base Campers will come?
We shall not forget that we do this trekking partly to try to acquire new members for our host team.
Take Cahuamos and captain cjslman – all alone is he cruching with no company.
There’s gotta be somebody who wants to crunch next to this friendly, slightly vertical-turtle bellied man.

Mexico is roughly 3,200 km/2,000 miles long and from north to south runs a wide chain of mountains.
The Sierra Madre.
This name will forever remind me of

a movie with moral issues larger than life.
We could go north/south in these mountains, but I suggest we just do the desert nature part. The thing is, my school movie club showed ’The Living Desert’ when I was 10 or so. Disney made it in 1953 and it took a while to cross the Pond in those days.

That film made an enormous imprint in the imagination part of the brain of a 10-year-old girl.
I never thought I would get to visit a desert – like Alhambra it was a distant dream.

Today we have desert Disney style on our program. We shall begin our trip at the border with Arizona.
The Sonora Desert. On horseback. No more donkeys.
And yes, I understand it hurts after yesterday. I brought painkillers.

For those of us coming from temperate climates the spectacle is amazing. The desert vegetation has a beauty of it’s own and makes us think about how genially all living creatures adapt to make the best of what is dealt them.
Look at the saguaro flowers – no one around to admire them but the insects that take care of the pollination.

I vividly remember this cat from the film. Her ears are not lynx-like, but I know her tail is that short one.

I'm not sure we have sand fields in the Sonora Desert, but the pattern made by a snake in the hot sand and in a little girl’s brain by Disney has to be present
- and the scorpions

- and the aplomado falcon


The dahlia is Mexico’s national flower. I would have liked us to see them as wildflowers, but they are hard to find.
Most dahlias available are the cultured part. This may be a middle road:

Our lunch will be something with which I’m not quite familiar. I know the names: Taco, tortilla, enchillada … and I believe that's what's in our picnic basket.

Spreading the picnic blanket next to a prairie dog colony is so much nicer than atop an ant heap.

I'm a bit of a turtle myself. LOL
It's been a very enjoyable trip and always nice to meet a new fellow crunchers.
Excellent trip LM as usual, good to see correspondence from the team as well.

En fait, si on enlève les fautes d'orthographe, que je n'ai jamais fait d'Espagnol, sauf les trois semaines que j'ai passé au Chili, ça veut dire : "Je voudrais une bière s'il vous plait".
Je ne suis vraiment pas très doué avec les langues étrangères, mais il y a des priorités, comme savoir commander une bière. Même en Allemand j'y arrive !

Ce qui explique que je me sens bien faire partie du club des tortues ...
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In fact, if we take the spelling mistakes out, that I have never practice Spanish, except the three weeks I spent in Chile, it means: "I would like a beer please" .
I'm really not very good with foreign languages, but there are priorities, such as knowing how to order a beer. Even in German I get there!

Which explains why I feel like I'm part of the turtle club ...