Podcasts about baja peninsula

Sean Jansen, a lifelong surfer and adventurer, standup paddled over 1,000 miles along the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula with his camping gear, food, and camera strapped to his board. His goal was to document the journey and raise awareness about the vaquita, an endangered porpoise native to the region.Connect with Sean: Website InstagramPurchase Sean's book, Paddling with PorpoiseThank you to our sponsors: Capital One and the REI Co-op® Mastercard® Ocean Bottle 

Often neglected, the archaeology of Mexico's Baja Peninsula remains mysterious and problematic.

We've got some great guests for you checking in from the Washington Sportsmen's Show to include: 1.  Lester Blahuta with Lester's Marine Gear specializing in made in the USA crab pots, shrimp pots, crawfish traps and more. 2.  Leonard Phillips with Baja Pirates offering saltwater fishing trips on both the Pacific Side and in the Sea of Cortez on the Baja Peninsula in Mexio. 3.  Mike Codino who shares details about the award-winning Penn Fathom Electric Reel, which is now available for sale 4.  Keith "Catfish" Sutton shares how he catches catfish in the dead of winter   www.americaoutdoorsradio.com www.lesterscrabposts.com www.bajapirates.com www.pennfishing.com  www.catfishnow.com   

Jesse Ventura has had many lives as a Navy SEAL, a star of pro wrestling, an actor, and as governor of Minnesota. Listen to Michael's 2008 conversation with Ventura about his then-new book "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!" - the story of his controversial gubernatorial years and his life since deciding not to seek a second term as governor in 2002. Written with award-winning author Dick Russell at a secluded location on Mexico's Baja Peninsula, Ventura's bestselling book reveals for the first time why he left politics and what might be next. Original air date 23 May 2008. The book was published on April 1, 2008.

Sean Jansen is a freelance writer and seasonal wilderness guide in Yellowstone National Park. He's intense, slightly awkward, and deeply committed to dancing with the more raw frequencies of human experience. I love this guy. During his off-season from guiding, he partakes in a litany of expeditions from thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail to his recent trip, standup paddling more than 1,000 miles down the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Through recovery from alcoholism, he has moved into a van and spends his time flying fishing trout streams, training for ultra-marathons, and searching the coast for unsurfed waves. With a passion for wilderness and wild places, he often takes his pen and paper on trips and finds ways that the outdoor recreation activities he loves can give back to conservation and environmental areas in need. Follow him on Instagram and read his new book, Paddling with Porpoise.If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. I read them all. You can join my newsletter on Substack. It's glorious.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Sean Jansen is a freelance writer and seasonal wilderness guide in Yellowstone National Park. He's intense, slightly awkward, and deeply committed to dancing with the more raw frequencies of human experience. I love this guy. During his off-season from guiding, he partakes in a litany of expeditions from thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail to his recent trip, standup paddling more than 1,000 miles down the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Through recovery from alcoholism, he has moved into a van and spends his time flying fishing trout streams, training for ultra-marathons, and searching the coast for unsurfed waves. With a passion for wilderness and wild places, he often takes his pen and paper on trips and finds ways that the outdoor recreation activities he loves can give back to conservation and environmental areas in need. Follow him on Instagram and read his new book, Paddling with Porpoise.If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. I read them all. You can join my newsletter on Substack. It's glorious.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

This week Reid and Dan host international artist, Kip Moore, out in God's Country. The guys dive head first into breaking down the shift the Nashville music community is seeing, the art of original songwriting, and what it's been like witnessing the massive changes over the last 15 years. Kip shares his most recent adventure of taking a nine-day motorcycle trip down the coast of California and into the Baja Peninsula that has Reid and Dan terrified on his behalf. The discussion of work/life balance is a common theme throughout the episode as they chat about Kip's new song that is setting a precedent for his next chapter as an artist.  God's Country on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Subscribe to The MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop God's Country Merch Shop MeatEater Merch More from MeatEaterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alex and Paulina are our first guests from Mexico. And they seem to have many of the same challenges as in the rest of North America - problems with Chinese products and standards and certifications, for example. They are making headway on light pollution however, starting with some dark sky compliant areas in the Baja Peninsula and working its way through Mexico. Alex is an Architect and Lighting Designer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. With extensive experience in lighting design, mainly in the industrial and commercial sectors. He has collaborated on multiple projects to achieve green certifications, such as LEED. He is a university lecturer, teaching Lighting courses in the Architecture program. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he has conducted various workshops where light is the medium for expressing ideas. Co-founder with his wife Paulina of Wawa Lighting. Paulina is an architect from the National Technological Institute of Mexico and holds a master's degree in Lighting Design from Aalborg University in Denmark. She has over 10 years of experience collaborating on hospitality, residential, urban, and industrial projects in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. She is the co-founder of Wawa Lighting, an architectural lighting design firm. Committed to education, she actively participates in courses, diploma programs, master's programs, and workshops, where she seeks to share knowledge about the culture of light and dark skies. 

Full Text of ReadingsMonday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 377The Saint of the day is Saint Junipero SerraSaint Junipero Serra’s Story In 1776, when the American Revolution was beginning in the east, another part of the future United States was being born in California. That year a gray-robed Franciscan founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, now famous for its annually returning swallows. San Juan was the seventh of nine missions established under the direction of this indomitable Spaniard. Born on Spain's island of Mallorca, Serra entered the Franciscan Order taking the name of Saint Francis' childlike companion, Brother Juniper. Until he was 35, he spent most of his time in the classroom—first as a student of theology and then as a professor. He also became famous for his preaching. Suddenly he gave it all up and followed the yearning that had begun years before when he heard about the missionary work of Saint Francis Solano in South America. Junipero's desire was to convert native peoples in the New World. Arriving by ship at Vera Cruz, Mexico, he and a companion walked the 250 miles to Mexico City. On the way Junipero's left leg became infected by an insect bite and would remain a cross—sometimes life-threatening—for the rest of his life. For 18 years, he worked in central Mexico and in the Baja Peninsula. He became president of the missions there. Enter politics: the threat of a Russian invasion south from Alaska. Charles III of Spain ordered an expedition to beat Russia to the territory. So the last two conquistadors—one military, one spiritual—began their quest. José de Galvez persuaded Junipero to set out with him for present-day Monterey, California. The first mission founded after the 900-mile journey north was San Diego in 1769. That year a shortage of food almost canceled the expedition. Vowing to stay with the local people, Junipero and another friar began a novena in preparation for St. Joseph's day, March 19, the scheduled day of departure. On that day, the relief ship arrived. Other missions followed: Monterey/Carmel (1770); San Antonio and San Gabriel (1771); San Luís Obispo (1772); San Francisco and San Juan Capistrano (1776); Santa Clara (1777); San Buenaventura (1782). Twelve more were founded after Serra's death. Junipero made the long trip to Mexico City to settle great differences with the military commander. He arrived at the point of death. The outcome was substantially what Junipero sought: the famous “Regulation” protecting the Indians and the missions. It was the basis for the first significant legislation in California, a “Bill of Rights” for Native Americans. Because the Native Americans were living a nonhuman life from the Spanish point of view, the friars were made their legal guardians. The Native Americans were kept at the mission after baptism lest they be corrupted in their former haunts—a move that has brought cries of “injustice” from some moderns. Junipero's missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples. Through it all his unquenchable zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight till dawn. He baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000. His travels would have circled the globe. He brought the Native Americans not only the gift of faith but also a decent standard of living. He won their love, as witnessed especially by their grief at his death. He is buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. Pope Francis canonized him in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 2015. Reflection The word that best describes Junipero is zeal. It was a spirit that came from his deep prayer and dauntless will. “Always forward, never back” was his motto. His work bore fruit for 50 years after his death as the rest of the missions were founded in a kind of Christian communal living by the Indians. When both Mexican and American greed caused the secularization of the missions, the Chumash people went back to what they had been—God again writing straight with crooked lines. Saint Junipero Serra is the Patron Saint of: California Missions Click here for more on Saint Junipero Serra! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Monday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Junipero Serra, 1713-1784; born on Spain's island of Mallorca, and joined the Franciscans; set out to convert native peoples in the New World; worked in central Mexico and the Baja Peninsula, and then traveled 900 miles north to set his first mission, San Diego; other missions followed; Junipero's missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples--but he baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000; he gave the Native Americans the faith and a decent standard of living Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/1/24 Gospel: Matthew 8:18-22

As many of you know, we spent the coldest months of winter exploring the Baja Peninsula. This episode is about our experience.Want more The On Purpose Podcast?Find full episodes and more! Check in on Instagram , FacebookFind Us on iTunes, Spotify and anywhere you listen to podcasts!Connect with Jerrod!Linkedin, InstagramGet My Book! (Now available as an Audio Book)

Embark on a journey less ordinary with the indomitable Kristin Hanes, our guide from the Wayward Home podcast and website, as she shares her transformation from a conventional lifestyle to one of boundless exploration. Kristin's leap from radio journalism to steering the helm of her online presence unveils the allure of van and boat life, from the Baja Peninsula to the European van trails, she narrates a life where every day is a new horizon.Sail through the practicalities of nomadic existence with Kristin as she narrates the intricacies of boatyard camaraderie and the unexpected splendors found in the everyday. The tapestry of her tales extends from the Sea of Cortez to the grandeur of the Dolomites, where mountain huts serve gourmet delights. This episode doesn't just recount travel adventures; it probes the delicate balance of sustaining a traveling lifestyle with real-world demands, exploring how Kristin turned her blog into a flourishing business amidst the tumultuous seas of digital algorithms and the challenges of zoning laws for unique dwellings like shipping container homes.Wrap up your listen with an assortment of stories that celebrate the communal spirit of van and boat life, from sharing trail snacks across the globe to the vibrant customs that unite nomads during festive occasions. Kristin's narrative continues to inspire as she gives us a peek into her future plans, including sailing to the South Pacific and mountain biking expeditions. Her journey underscores the freedom found in simplicity and the community created amongst those who wander, inviting you to consider the road less traveled and the connections made along the way. You can find Kristin Hanes here:Website:https://www.thewaywardhome.com/YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/@TheWaywardHome/Podcast:http://www.pod.link/1588760553/Instagram:http://www instagram.com/thewaywardhomeKristin's Book - Van Life Italiahttps://sales.thewaywardhome.com/van-life-italia/Map of the Dolomites in ItalySupport the showPlease download, like, subscribe, share a review, and follow us on your favorite podcasts app and connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wherenextpodcast/View all listening options: https://wherenextpodcast.buzzsprout.com/HostsCarol: https://www.instagram.com/carol.work.lifeKristen: https://www.instagram.com/team_wake/ If you can, please support the show or you can buy us a coffee.

If you find yourself planning an excursion to the Baja Peninsula, be sure to add in the many Baja breweries to your travel plans, including Mulegé Brewing Co in the adorable seaside town of Mulegé, Baja California Sur.Mulegé Brewing planted roots directly in town in 2019 and soon grew out of their space. But not their roots, which will always be planted firmly within the Mulegé community. Now, conveniently located on Mexico Highway 1, the infamous transpeninsular highway that takes travelers through an array of stark desert beauty and glistening coastal aquamarine waters of the Sea of Cortez, Mulegé Brewing is a must-stop.Meet Brian and Miguel from Mulegé Brewing CoAnd that is exactly what happened to Brian Attard, owner of Mulegé Brewing Co. His first trip to Baja became his destiny. Rounding the corner into Santa Rosalia, his first glance of the Sea of Cortez called him home. And his retirement became a new endeavor. He and his wife, Anna Katherine, opened Mulegé Brewing Co, bringing a much needed craft brewery into the Baja craft beer scene.Miguel Ramirez, Mulegé Brewing Co's brewer, also fell in love with Mulegé when he came to visit from Venezuela. A chemistry teacher turned brewer, Miguel is Brian's brother-in-law, and eager to expand his love of craft beer and brewing, while helping to build a family owned and operated business.Join us as we chat with Brian and Miguel about owning a brewery in Baja California Sur, the joys of traveling and living here, and the community that you'll find all along the way.Click here for the full show notes, images, links, and more.Connect with Mulegé Brewing CoKM South of Pemex, México 1 KM 128 1, 23900 Heroica Mulegé, B.C.S.FacebookInstagramConnect with Us:The Craft Beer Travel & Adventure Podcast is hosted by Living a Stout Life, where we share stories, community, and resources for all your craft beer travel and adventure lifestyle needs.We would absolutely love it if you subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. As my nephew once said, "We say please and thank you!"Subscribe to Living a Stout Life:NewsletterYouTubeFacebookInstagramBuy Us a Beer:Like our podcast? Help keep it going with a donation for a beer. We'll even zoom ya for a happy hour, if you'd like. Or meet up in person if we can. Click here.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/craft-beer-travel-and-adventure/donations

Our Christmas Special Episode, details the shark the has the most Christmas spirt - The Megalodon! Miles has exciting new evidence that maybe their is something to this shark?!Trey has some interesting information who took the UFO Photo from the "I want to believe posters, " Flying Saucers were not the only thing this interesting man was seeing. Our Special Guest is Paleontologist - Tyler Greenfield. He gives an excellent defense against miles' "new information about Megalodon." Tyler has published papers on the topic, and you can learn more about his work here.The Monster Quest - S03E07 - Mega Jaws - Investigating sightings of a 60-foot shark that might be a giant new species or a prehistoric survivor in the waters off Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Mexican sailors report being stalked by the `Black Demon'.Support the show

TIME STAMPS: 02:29 How Baja Gold Living Sea Salt is sourced. 05:21 CURRENCY: A brief history of sea salt, and how it is different than TABLE SALT. 09:32 The natural process of obtaining salt water to be evaporated from the Baja Peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. 12:07 MAGNESIUM LEVELS of leading salt companies that source from the PACIFIC OCEAN. 14:49 What is the difference between a freshly sourced sea salt and PINK HIMALAYAN SALT? How is it different than REDMOND REAL SALT? 19:39 Moisture and nutrient profiles of MALDON and other sea salts. 22:02 Practical uses of NATURAL GRAIN CRYSTALS and FIND GROUND SALTS. 23:50 The PEANUT BUTTER and HONEY analogy! 26:06 The VITAL ROLE that salt plays in your body. 31:01 Is sea salt CONTAMINATED with MERCURY and other TOXIC HEAVY METALS?! 37:05 EPSOM SALT, DEAD SEA SALT, and BATH SALT BLENDS. https://bajagoldsaltco.com/ IG: bajagoldsaltco Shop Natural Sea Salts: https://supersetyourlife.com/collections/sea-salts Mark Ennis Consultations & Coaching Inquiries: https://instagram.com/fitnessbeyondtime01?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= SUPERSET Coaching membership inquiries: https://calendly.com/ssyl/meet-greet

In this episode of HYDRATE, Tracy sits down with Michael Sileck from Baja Gold Salt Co. - Artisanal, Unprocessed, All-Natural Sea Salt As Nature Intended Baja Gold is an unrefined sea salt harvested solely through solar evaporation in mineral rich waters off the Baja Peninsula, allowing it to retain over 90 essential minerals and trace elements found in ocean water.  Its unique source gives Baja Gold significantly higher levels of bioavailable macro elements like potassium, magnesium, and calcium, and micro ‘trace' elements such as zinc, boron, manganese, molybdenum, and more. compared to common sea salts. Tracy and Michael have an in-depth discussion on what makes Baja Gold the purest salt on the market. They explore how Baja Gold's ocean source and thorough independent testing sets it apart from other salts. They also uncover fascinating history behind Baja Gold's origin and roots in cellular agriculture and one doctor's mission to solve declining human health. Additionally, Michael provides tips on identifying quality sea salts, optimizing hydration and health through mineral-rich salt, and naturally boosting garden vitality with salt. Tune in to learn why Baja Gold is truly the world's purest and most nutritious salt. Enjoy the show!   Explore Baja Gold Products: BajaGoldSaltCo.com Use code HYDRATE to get 10% off of your order   Connect with Tracy: Website: TracyDuhs.com HYDRATE BOOK: https://tracyduhs.com/product/hydrate-with-tracy-duhs/ Tracy's Hydration essentials: Hydration – The Sanctuary Wellness Experience at sanctuarysd.com   More information on deuterium depleted water: Subscribe and Save: https://bit.ly/3p3F1lz Use code TRACYDUHS for 20% + 10% of subscription   Connect with Tracy on Instagram @TRACYDUHS

Bryce Menzies capped off a dominant 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship over the weekend by earning the overall win in the 56th SCORE Baja 1000, teaming up with Tavo Vildosola and Andy McMillin to conquer more than 1300 miles up the Baja Peninsula from La Paz to Ensenada. The win made him the 2023 Trophy Truck class champion with three wins in four races, as well as just the 10th driver in history to have won the Baja 1000, Baja 500, and San Felipe 250. Menzies' accolades extend far beyond SCORE or even just the desert, though; from short course championships in multiple classes, to a pair of wins in the unique Red Bull Frozen Rush, to a 379-foot jump over a New Mexico ghost town to set a Guinness World Record, his name is a consistent presence in record books of all types.Listen Now: Check out this episode featuring Bryce from March 2018! Other guests include NHRA Top Fuel champion Antron Brown and fellow Baja 1000 champion Justin Lambert.Be sure and find a General Tire for your ride here: General TireSubscribe here to the show: Apple PodcastsFollow us on YouTube here: Jim Beaver on YouTubeThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1021001/advertisement

On August 18, the National Hurricane Center issued the first Southern California tropical storm watch in history as Hurricane Hilary barreled up the coast. At its worst, Hilary was a category four Pacific Hurricane, which hit 145 mile per hour winds, brought flooding, mudslides, and torrential rainfall to the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States, and broke state rainfall records as far away as Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon.,In California, portions of I-8, I-10, I-15, SR 14, and the Pacific Coast Highway closed due to flooding and rockslides; more than 5,000 customers in LA were left without electricity, and rainfall totals reached as high as 11.74 inches around San Jacinto Peak. The worst of the damage, however, was in Mexico, where nearly 1,900 people were evacuated to shelters in the Baja Peninsula and the country has faced two casualties. In Los Angeles, this was many people's first hurricane, and while understandable that people may not have known what to do, it was a bit surprising to see the degree to which individuals failed to heed basic safety recommendations and downplayed the storm on social media. Ethan explores how climate change and El Niño could have impacted this historically unusual storm and why the response from Angelenos was so unsettling in this week's “Tip of the Iceberg.” The Sweaty Penguin is presented by Peril and Promise: a public media initiative from The WNET Group in New York, reporting on the issues and solutions around climate change. You can learn more at pbs.org/perilandpromise. Support the show and unlock exclusive merch, bonus content, and more for as little as $5/month at patreon.com/thesweatypenguin. CREDITS Writer: Ethan Brown, Velina Georgi, Mo Polyak, Emma Quarequio Fact Checker: Ainsley Jane Tambling Editor: Megan Antone, Saige Gipson Producers: Ethan Brown, Hallie Cordingley, Shannon Damiano, Owen Reith Ad Voiceover: Mo Polyak Music: Brett Sawka The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the host and guests. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of Peril and Promise or The WNET Group.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023. Bohnet Music Academy Isn’t it about time to take action on how you're going to give your children and grandchildren a good music education? Moses, David, and all the Saints of the church have worshiped God with musical might, so let’s be confidently found doing the same. Bohnet Music Academy instructs children and adults in how to be musically literate. That’s everything you need to know and do as the musician God made you to be. Lessons are available locally in Moscow, ID and online. What’s great is that in addition to getting vocal training, you can also study the piano, guitar, violin, cello, drums, or the trumpet. Visit Bohnetma.com/crosspolitic for more information on how to equip your family to serve God’s musical commands. B-O-H-N-E-T MA.com/crosspolitic https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/08/21/photos-hurricane-hilary-flooding-ravages-southern-california/ Hurricane Hilary Flooding Ravages Southern California Tropical Storm Hilary deluged arid parts of Mexico and then drenched Southern California from the coast to the desert resort city of Palm Springs and inland mountains, forcing rescuers to pull several people from swollen rivers. Even as the storm subsides across the coast, flooding and mudslides were expected across the parts of the southwestern U.S. The storm first made landfall in Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula on Sunday in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles (250 kilometers) south of Ensenada. One person drowned. It then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw nearly 3.18 inches (8 centimeters) of rain by Sunday evening. The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm in its early Monday advisory, and warned that “continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding” was expected over portions of the southwestern U.S. on Monday. All coastal warnings were discontinued. Forecasters warned of dangerous flash floods across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, and fire officials rescued 13 people from knee-deep water in a homeless encampment along the rising San Diego River. Meanwhile, rain and debris washed out some roadways and people left their cars stranded in standing water. Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Sunday was the wettest day on record in San Diego, with 1.82 inches (4.6 centimeters), the National Weather Service said in a post on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. The previous record was on Aug. 17, 1977, when 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) post-Hurricane Doreen dumped record rainfall on the area. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, said all campuses would be closed on Monday, as did districts across the region. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from Monday to Tuesday. The Palm Springs Police Department said in a statement Sunday that 911 lines were down and that in the event of an emergency to text 911 or reach out to the nearest police or fire station. The storm was projected to weaken as it continued moving northward over California and into Nevada, but Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said “very heavy” rain and strong winds are still likely. https://twitter.com/i/status/1693454589591523411 - Play Video Southern California got another surprise Sunday afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to a dispatcher with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. Hilary is just the latest major climate disaster to wreak havoc across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Hawaii’s island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed over 100 people and ravaged the historic town of Lahaina, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation’s worst fire season on record. As Hilary bore down on Mexico, one person drowned Saturday in Mugele, on the eastern side of the Baja Peninsula, when a vehicle was swept away by an overflowing stream. Rescue workers saved four other people, said Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, the mayor of Mulege. Mexican army troops fanned out across the area where some of the worst damage occurred Saturday. Soldiers used bulldozers and dump trucks to help clear tons of boulders and earth that clogged streets and roads. Power lines were toppled in many places, and emergency personnel worked to restore electricity. On Sunday morning in California, the warnings from officials didn’t keep everyone indoors. In coastal Carlsbad, just north of San Diego, 19-year-old Jack Johnson and his friends kept an eye on the huge waves, determined to surf them. “It’s really choppy out there, not really surfable yet, but I think we can find a good break somewhere later,” Johnson said. “I can’t remember a storm like this.” Also Sunday, one of several budding storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean became Tropical Storm Emily, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was far from land, moving west in the open ocean. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin formed in the eastern Caribbean. Tropical storm watches were issued for the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In September 1939, a tropical storm that roared into California ripped apart train tracks, tore houses from their foundations and capsized many boats, killing nearly 100 people on land and at sea https://www.dailyfetched.com/wef-adviser-population-collapse-is-good-for-the-planet/ WEF Advisor: Population Collapse is “Good for the Planet” Once a “right-wing conspiracy,” de-population is now being acknowledged by news outlets like The Telegraph. Prof Harper told the Telegraph: “I think it’s a good thing that the high-income, high-consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children that they’re having. I’m quite positive about that.” The WEF professor said declining fertility would help to address the “general overconsumption that we have at the moment,” which she claims has a negative impact on the planet. The WEF advisor also points out that a population collapse as a result in declines in births will bring about reductions in CO2 emissions. According to research, wealthy nations tend to have much larger carbon footprints than poorer countries because they can buy more goods, travel, and do other activities that generate emissions. World Bank figures show that carbon emissions from high-income countries were 29 times larger than low-income countries. In June, U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry declared that 10 billion humans on the planet is “unsustainable.” The global population hit eight billion people in November 2022, three times the figure recorded in 1950. According to U.N. projections, the current figure is set to hit 9.7 billion humans on the planet by the middle of the century. However, John Kerry expressed fears about the current population growth, outlining his plans to the AFP. “I don’t think it’s sustainable, personally,” Kerry said. “We need to figure out how we’re going to deal with the issue of sustainability and the numbers of people we’re trying to take care of on the planet,” he added. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-renew-push-americans-get-covid-19-boosters Biden admin to renew push for Americans to get COVID-19 boosters President Biden's administration is preparing another program to encourage Americans to get booster shots for COVID-19 in the coming months. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported an increase in COVID-19 infections across the U.S., though it remains far below levels seen during the pandemic. The Biden administration plans to urge Americans to get booster shots this fall, an administration official told FOX Business' Edward Lawrence. "We will be encouraging all Americans to get those boosters in addition to flu shots and RSV shots," the official said. The news comes days after the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) revealed they are tracking another variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. The newly discovered variant, referred to as BA.2.86, has been designated as a "variant under monitoring" by the WHO "due to the large number of mutations it carries." The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The variant is one of dozens being tracked by national health agencies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new booster program would come nearly a year after Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic "over" in September 2022, though he said, "We're still doing a lot of work on it."

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023. Bohnet Music Academy Isn’t it about time to take action on how you're going to give your children and grandchildren a good music education? Moses, David, and all the Saints of the church have worshiped God with musical might, so let’s be confidently found doing the same. Bohnet Music Academy instructs children and adults in how to be musically literate. That’s everything you need to know and do as the musician God made you to be. Lessons are available locally in Moscow, ID and online. What’s great is that in addition to getting vocal training, you can also study the piano, guitar, violin, cello, drums, or the trumpet. Visit Bohnetma.com/crosspolitic for more information on how to equip your family to serve God’s musical commands. B-O-H-N-E-T MA.com/crosspolitic https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/08/21/photos-hurricane-hilary-flooding-ravages-southern-california/ Hurricane Hilary Flooding Ravages Southern California Tropical Storm Hilary deluged arid parts of Mexico and then drenched Southern California from the coast to the desert resort city of Palm Springs and inland mountains, forcing rescuers to pull several people from swollen rivers. Even as the storm subsides across the coast, flooding and mudslides were expected across the parts of the southwestern U.S. The storm first made landfall in Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula on Sunday in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles (250 kilometers) south of Ensenada. One person drowned. It then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw nearly 3.18 inches (8 centimeters) of rain by Sunday evening. The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm in its early Monday advisory, and warned that “continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding” was expected over portions of the southwestern U.S. on Monday. All coastal warnings were discontinued. Forecasters warned of dangerous flash floods across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, and fire officials rescued 13 people from knee-deep water in a homeless encampment along the rising San Diego River. Meanwhile, rain and debris washed out some roadways and people left their cars stranded in standing water. Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Sunday was the wettest day on record in San Diego, with 1.82 inches (4.6 centimeters), the National Weather Service said in a post on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. The previous record was on Aug. 17, 1977, when 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) post-Hurricane Doreen dumped record rainfall on the area. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, said all campuses would be closed on Monday, as did districts across the region. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from Monday to Tuesday. The Palm Springs Police Department said in a statement Sunday that 911 lines were down and that in the event of an emergency to text 911 or reach out to the nearest police or fire station. The storm was projected to weaken as it continued moving northward over California and into Nevada, but Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said “very heavy” rain and strong winds are still likely. https://twitter.com/i/status/1693454589591523411 - Play Video Southern California got another surprise Sunday afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to a dispatcher with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. Hilary is just the latest major climate disaster to wreak havoc across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Hawaii’s island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed over 100 people and ravaged the historic town of Lahaina, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation’s worst fire season on record. As Hilary bore down on Mexico, one person drowned Saturday in Mugele, on the eastern side of the Baja Peninsula, when a vehicle was swept away by an overflowing stream. Rescue workers saved four other people, said Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, the mayor of Mulege. Mexican army troops fanned out across the area where some of the worst damage occurred Saturday. Soldiers used bulldozers and dump trucks to help clear tons of boulders and earth that clogged streets and roads. Power lines were toppled in many places, and emergency personnel worked to restore electricity. On Sunday morning in California, the warnings from officials didn’t keep everyone indoors. In coastal Carlsbad, just north of San Diego, 19-year-old Jack Johnson and his friends kept an eye on the huge waves, determined to surf them. “It’s really choppy out there, not really surfable yet, but I think we can find a good break somewhere later,” Johnson said. “I can’t remember a storm like this.” Also Sunday, one of several budding storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean became Tropical Storm Emily, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was far from land, moving west in the open ocean. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin formed in the eastern Caribbean. Tropical storm watches were issued for the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In September 1939, a tropical storm that roared into California ripped apart train tracks, tore houses from their foundations and capsized many boats, killing nearly 100 people on land and at sea https://www.dailyfetched.com/wef-adviser-population-collapse-is-good-for-the-planet/ WEF Advisor: Population Collapse is “Good for the Planet” Once a “right-wing conspiracy,” de-population is now being acknowledged by news outlets like The Telegraph. Prof Harper told the Telegraph: “I think it’s a good thing that the high-income, high-consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children that they’re having. I’m quite positive about that.” The WEF professor said declining fertility would help to address the “general overconsumption that we have at the moment,” which she claims has a negative impact on the planet. The WEF advisor also points out that a population collapse as a result in declines in births will bring about reductions in CO2 emissions. According to research, wealthy nations tend to have much larger carbon footprints than poorer countries because they can buy more goods, travel, and do other activities that generate emissions. World Bank figures show that carbon emissions from high-income countries were 29 times larger than low-income countries. In June, U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry declared that 10 billion humans on the planet is “unsustainable.” The global population hit eight billion people in November 2022, three times the figure recorded in 1950. According to U.N. projections, the current figure is set to hit 9.7 billion humans on the planet by the middle of the century. However, John Kerry expressed fears about the current population growth, outlining his plans to the AFP. “I don’t think it’s sustainable, personally,” Kerry said. “We need to figure out how we’re going to deal with the issue of sustainability and the numbers of people we’re trying to take care of on the planet,” he added. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-renew-push-americans-get-covid-19-boosters Biden admin to renew push for Americans to get COVID-19 boosters President Biden's administration is preparing another program to encourage Americans to get booster shots for COVID-19 in the coming months. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported an increase in COVID-19 infections across the U.S., though it remains far below levels seen during the pandemic. The Biden administration plans to urge Americans to get booster shots this fall, an administration official told FOX Business' Edward Lawrence. "We will be encouraging all Americans to get those boosters in addition to flu shots and RSV shots," the official said. The news comes days after the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) revealed they are tracking another variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. The newly discovered variant, referred to as BA.2.86, has been designated as a "variant under monitoring" by the WHO "due to the large number of mutations it carries." The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The variant is one of dozens being tracked by national health agencies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new booster program would come nearly a year after Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic "over" in September 2022, though he said, "We're still doing a lot of work on it."

In our news wrap Sunday, Hilary is set to become the first tropical storm to hit California's coastline in 84 years. Wildfires in eastern Washington state have killed one person and destroyed some 185 homes and buildings. The Netherlands and Denmark announced they will supply American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Spain won the Women's World Cup for the first time with its win over England. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Sunday, Hilary is set to become the first tropical storm to hit California's coastline in 84 years. Wildfires in eastern Washington state have killed one person and destroyed some 185 homes and buildings. The Netherlands and Denmark announced they will supply American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Spain won the Women's World Cup for the first time with its win over England. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In Episode 10 of the Dream Retirement In Mexico podcast, expats from Florida turned Cabo-based real estate agents, Tracey and Glen Muir share their journey from Canada to Tampa, Florida, and ultimately their decision to make the leap to move to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. They discuss the importance of careful planning and research before making such a big move. From listing and selling their house to navigating visa requirements and immigration processes, they offer valuable tips and insights for potential retirees considering a move to Mexico. One of the significant considerations they discuss is the topic of vehicles and the importance of understanding the rules and regulations regarding Mexican-plated vehicles versus American-plated vehicles. They also share a loophole they discovered in the Baja Peninsula, where American or Canadian-plated cars can freely travel without restrictions. Tracey and Glen emphasize the need for clarity and clear communication with their partners when making significant decisions. They share their experiences and the conflicting emotions they encountered throughout the process. Overall, the episode provides a wealth of information and personal experiences to guide and inspire those dreaming of retiring in Mexico.   Key Moments : [00:05:31] Choosing to leap for an extraordinary life. [00:09:32] Riskier move to different country with no prospects. [00:13:27] Important steps to consider for moving to Mexico [00:15:08] Options for permanent residency in Mexico  [00:23:13] Importing vehicles to Mexico can be complicated. [00:25:14] Taxes, import duties, insurance: car complications summarized. [00:31:47] Bank account is essential for house ownership. [00:35:06] Encourage expats to get medical insurance. About the Guests :  Glen Muir and his partner Tracy had full-time jobs in the United States when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Like many others, they faced the possibility of being laid off temporarily. Fortunately, they eventually returned to work, but this unforeseen break allowed them to pause and reevaluate their lives.  The couple had always dreamed of moving to Mexico for a new adventure, and this unexpected situation gave them the perfect opportunity to explore that possibility. With extra time, Glen and Tracy decided to go online and start researching houses in Mexico.  They crunched the numbers and realized that with the current exchange rate, the savings they had amassed could cover their expenses for a couple of years. Excited by this prospect, they felt that the pandemic had been a catalyst for reevaluating their priorities and taking the leap to pursue their dream of living in Mexico.  After careful consideration, Glen and Tracy boldly decided to pull the trigger and move to Mexico. They were ready for a change and felt that this new chapter in their lives would bring them fulfillment and adventure. By embracing the unexpected challenges brought by the pandemic, Glen and Tracy found the courage to create a new life for themselves in a country they had always dreamed of exploring.  They have since become real estate agents in the Cabo San Lucas area.

#063 - Here's your chance to embark on a vicarious adventure through the eyes of our brave guests, Hayley and Jake. This engineering duo decided to leave the conventional life behind and hit the road on a fascinating journey. They've transformed from mere engineers to accomplished vanlife adventurers, exploring the stunning terrains of Mexico, building their own van from scratch, and overcoming the challenges that come with an adventurous lifestyle.Our conversation with Hayley and Jake takes us on a ride across the beautiful Baja Peninsula, through the streets of mainland Mexico, and into their personalized van that's a marvel of self-reliance. Together, we navigate through their experiences with the welcoming Mexican locals, and the breathtaking landscapes that make this journey worth every mile. They also share the struggles they've overcome, like language barriers and navigation issues, and the tech solutions that have come to their rescue.But this episode isn't just about the road, it's about the journey within. Hayley and Jake open up about how this van life adventure has not just been a geographical shift, but a shift in their relationship and personal growth. From planning their wedding in the Yucatan to dealing with the grueling summer heat, they share insights that redefine the perception of van life. Whether you're a van life enthusiast, an aspiring adventurer, or someone who loves a good travel story, this episode is a treasure trove of experiences, advice, and the real deal about life on the road.Be sure and follow along with Hayley and Jake on Instagram @hayleyandjake and on their Youtube channel @HayleyandJake.  Please give me a follow on Instagram @journeywithjakepodcast to learn more about my guests and a little about your host as well!!  I would love it if you could leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  Thanks for listening to Journey with Jake!

Hey Festival Friends! What do you get when you combine great food, the best California wine, top chefs and top Food Network personalities with great weather? You get the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival. On this episode, our guest is Food Network personality and the co-founder of the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival, Troy Johnson.  A lifelong San Diego resident, Troy takes us through his career as a music and food writer and TV personality to launching this incredible festival in the city he loves.  For a decade now (yes, a decade) Troy has been a featured judge on Guy's Grocery Games on the Food Network and takes us behind the scenes to the hilarious story of the first time he met Guy Fieri himself.  Troy also shares his story of taking over San Diego Magazine with his wife and doing his part to use that platform to lift up restaurants during and after the pandemic. The inaugural Del Mar Wine & Food Festival will feature the best chefs of San Diego and the Baja Peninsula and will feature key events like a Dos Hombres Mezcal pairing dinner with Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. We also hear there will be a dry aged bone marrow tasting, which we've never seen on the food festival circuit before. There will also be appearances by other celebrities including Surfing Champion Rob Machado and a celebrity PickleBall Tournament hosted by Drew Brees!  Mark your calendars for September 6-11 and be there in San Diego for all the action!    To find out more about the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival and Troy: Del Mar Wine & Food Festival website:  https://delmar.wine/  Follow the festival on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delmarfest/   Follow Troy on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/heytroyjohnson/  Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_troyjohnson    Connect with Festival Pass! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/getfestivalpass/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/getfestivalpass/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/getfestivalpass Website - https://festivalpass.com

Full Text of ReadingsSaturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 376The Saint of the day is Saint Junipero SerraSaint Junipero Serra’s Story In 1776, when the American Revolution was beginning in the east, another part of the future United States was being born in California. That year a gray-robed Franciscan founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, now famous for its annually returning swallows. San Juan was the seventh of nine missions established under the direction of this indomitable Spaniard. Born on Spain's island of Mallorca, Serra entered the Franciscan Order taking the name of Saint Francis' childlike companion, Brother Juniper. Until he was 35, he spent most of his time in the classroom—first as a student of theology and then as a professor. He also became famous for his preaching. Suddenly he gave it all up and followed the yearning that had begun years before when he heard about the missionary work of Saint Francis Solano in South America. Junipero's desire was to convert native peoples in the New World. Arriving by ship at Vera Cruz, Mexico, he and a companion walked the 250 miles to Mexico City. On the way Junipero's left leg became infected by an insect bite and would remain a cross—sometimes life-threatening—for the rest of his life. For 18 years, he worked in central Mexico and in the Baja Peninsula. He became president of the missions there. Enter politics: the threat of a Russian invasion south from Alaska. Charles III of Spain ordered an expedition to beat Russia to the territory. So the last two conquistadors—one military, one spiritual—began their quest. José de Galvez persuaded Junipero to set out with him for present-day Monterey, California. The first mission founded after the 900-mile journey north was San Diego in 1769. That year a shortage of food almost canceled the expedition. Vowing to stay with the local people, Junipero and another friar began a novena in preparation for St. Joseph's day, March 19, the scheduled day of departure. On that day, the relief ship arrived. Other missions followed: Monterey/Carmel (1770); San Antonio and San Gabriel (1771); San Luís Obispo (1772); San Francisco and San Juan Capistrano (1776); Santa Clara (1777); San Buenaventura (1782). Twelve more were founded after Serra's death. Junipero made the long trip to Mexico City to settle great differences with the military commander. He arrived at the point of death. The outcome was substantially what Junipero sought: the famous “Regulation” protecting the Indians and the missions. It was the basis for the first significant legislation in California, a “Bill of Rights” for Native Americans. Because the Native Americans were living a nonhuman life from the Spanish point of view, the friars were made their legal guardians. The Native Americans were kept at the mission after baptism lest they be corrupted in their former haunts—a move that has brought cries of “injustice” from some moderns. Junipero's missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples. Through it all his unquenchable zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight till dawn. He baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000. His travels would have circled the globe. He brought the Native Americans not only the gift of faith but also a decent standard of living. He won their love, as witnessed especially by their grief at his death. He is buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. Pope Francis canonized him in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 2015. Reflection The word that best describes Junipero is zeal. It was a spirit that came from his deep prayer and dauntless will. “Always forward, never back” was his motto. His work bore fruit for 50 years after his death as the rest of the missions were founded in a kind of Christian communal living by the Indians. When both Mexican and American greed caused the secularization of the missions, the Chumash people went back to what they had been—God again writing straight with crooked lines. Saint Junipero Serra is the Patron Saint of: California Missions Click here for more on Saint Junipero Serra! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Frankly, I love doing all these interviews. I get to meet really creative people doing amazing work. Plus, I always feel I grow as a person after hearing their wonderful stories.My latest interview is no exception. She is smart, dynamic, and building an award-winning marketing/advertising firm that would make any community proud.Today I'm very pleased to introduce President/CEO & Owner, Allison Imre of Grapevine Communications.After buying this Lakewood Ranch firm in 2017 Allison continues to build upon the 20-year legacy of the previous owners by being CREATIVE. STRATEGIC. ACCOUNTABLE®In this episode, you'll learn ...One thing most people don't know about AllisonWhat led her to buy Grapevine over 5 years agoWhat type of work they do for their customersWhy it's OK to be authentic and unvarnished on social mediaWho should reach out to Grapevine... and much ... much ... more!Thank you for stopping by today. It is my hope you will listen ... learn ... and connect!FacebookInstagramLinkedInTwitterYoutubePinterestTikTokALLISON IMREPresident/CEO/OwnerBorn and raised in Kansas City, KS by a mother from LA and a father from NJ • Often regaled by stories of her parents' bi-coastal upbringing that created a hard-to-suppress wanderlust • Discovered her destiny for a career in communications at an early age, playing “radio” with family friend and veteran broadcaster Pete Gabriel • Landed a coveted position with the KC Royals Radio Network, combining her two loves: broadcasting and sports • Became the Owner/President of Grapevine in April 2017 • Lived in the Virgin Islands, on the Baja Peninsula, San Diego, New Orleans, Lake Tahoe and Colorado before settling in SRQ in 2004 • Married to a slightly above average fella named David • Mother to a toddler aptly named “Rip” • Paddleboarder, cancer survivor, snappy dresser and fantasy football champion.

At fifty-four, Alenka was running out of time to follow through on a dream she'd written down just after her first marriage crumbled. Years later, as she slowly rebuilt her life with her second husband, things started spiraling out of control with their health. The only way she knew how to heal and connect all painful parts of her life was by riding her bike, and she didn't want to have regrets. But was she brave enough to embark on an unknown path and risk losing everything . . . perhaps even her own life?Determined to awaken her dying spirit and heal her battered body, Alenka loaded her mountain bike with 50 pounds' worth of camping gear and set off on a 2,500-mile journey. Starting in Lake Tahoe, California, she hoped to ride to the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, following remote mountain trails, alone.What followed was an irrevocably transformational journey of love, hope, courage, and resilience—and here, Alenka tells that story in a voice stripped of self-pity and infused with a good dose of humor. Here book, She Rides, is a galvanizing wake-up call for anyone who wants to unearth and follow their own deeply buried dreams—and reclaim their life.Learn more about Alenka and her book, She Rides, below:www.mylifesuspended.comInstagram: @mother_lenTwitter: @AlenkaVrecekFacebook: @alenka.vrecekSponsor messages:Lectric eBikesLectric eBikes offers a wide range of customizable and adjustable eBike options to accommodate an array of different lifestyles. Including rides from the effortlessly fun XP Lite to a highly capable cargo eBike, the XPedition. Over 250,000 dedicated riders on the road so far!https://lectricebikes.com/Our Sponsors:* Check out Green Chef and use my code asp250 for a great deal: https://www.greenchef.com/asp250* Check out Oris Watches: https://www.oris.ch* Check out Roark and use my code ASP15 for a great deal: https://roark.com/* Check out Shopify and use my code asp for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com/aspSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventure-sports-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We are back on San Juan Island after our winter offseason. People often ask us what we do during our offseason. We go whale watching in other parts of the world! Daven joins us on this episode as we share stories of our offseason whale adventures. Between the three of us we traveled to the Canadian Arctic, Eastern Pacific off Mexico and the Sea of Cortez, the Southern Ocean off Australia, the Sliver Bank off the Dominican Republic, and Antarctica.    Daven starts off the by sharing stories from his experiences in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, highlighted by encounters with Northern bottlenose whales, Belugas, and a fleeting view of Narwhals. He also talks about spending two months in Antarctica seeing multiple species of baleen whales as well as different types of Antarctic killer whales.    Our stories continue with Sara's adventures to Bremer Bay, Australia with Naturaliste Charters to see the killer whales of Bremer Canyon. These are a recently discovered population of approximately 300 orcas that are thought to be related to Antarctic type A killer whales. They primarily prey on beaked whales but also eat a varied diet that includes squid and tuna. Sara shares her stories from spending a month on the water with these whales while she collected data for the Orca Behavior Institute.    Next, Jeff talks a bit about his last minute travels around the Baja Peninsula to sail one of the breeding areas for North Pacific Humpback whales. He also talks about a friendly Gray whale encounter in Magdalena Bay and a visit to the Museo de la Ballena in La Paz.    Finally, Jeff and Sara discuss their return to the Sliver Bank, the largest breeding area for North Atlantic Humpback whales, 75 miles offshore of the Dominican Republic. They share highlights from snorkeling with Humpback whales while out with Conscious Breath Adventures. For even more information on what it's like to experience the Silver Bank, you can listen to Episode 7.    There are several common themes throughout our discussions, including the remote locations of many of these special, wild places and the sometimes uncomfortable conditions that you have to endure to get there. But the payoff is life changing as evidenced by us choosing activities like this every offseason in the San Juan Islands.   Speaking of the San Juan Islands, our season has started and we are seeing amazing wildlife and whales. If you would like to join us on a tour you can get details and book your trip with Maya's Legacy Whale Watching.    If you are enjoying listening to our podcast, please follow/subscribe, leave us feedback/reviews and share with your friends! You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube. Please send us feedback or questions at afterthebreachpodcast@gmail.com. For complete show notes, links and photos, please visit our website: https://www.afterthebreachpodcast.com/e/our-offseason-whales-around-the-world/   Photos mentioned in this episode: Photo by Daven Hafey   Photo by Daven Hafey   Photo by Sara Hysong-Shimazu   Photo by Sara Hysong-Shimazu   Photo by Sara Hysong-Shimazu   Photo by Sara Hysong-Shimazu   Photo by Jeff Friedman    

BONES OF SKULL ISLAND by A. Remlov (a.k.a Mindy DuVernet“Bones of Skull Island” follows 11-year old Hunter Burrows and his amateur archeologist father, Mitch, on a dig for dinosaur bones and lost treasure. One day on the Baja Peninsula, they uncover the jawbone of a 700,000-year-old hobbit. They are amazed when the bone jumps to life and leads them on a perilous adventure of ancient curses and new discoveries.Mindy DuVernet (a.k.a. A. Remlov) is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She is a novelist and filmmaker. Her first book, “Pushkin's Ode to Liberty,” is about the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.  She has two daughters and five grandchildren. She enjoys visiting friends and family in Minnesota and Oregon. Co-author: Chase Stevens is in the six grade. He loves wrestling, baseball, football and video games. He is on the student council and is making videos about the student experience. Most of all, he loves to tell a good story.https://www.urlinkpublishing.com/www.amazon.comhttps://www.pushkinsodetoliberty.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/3923urlmd.mp3   

When Dr. Jon Rebman decided to take on the diversity of cholla cacti, little did he know what he was getting into. Luckily, this work led him down a road stoked by a deep passion for understanding the biodiversity of not only cacti, but the entire flora of southern California and the Baja Peninsula. Dr. Rebman believes in maintaining a classical botanist's approach to his work and as you will hear in our conversation, this has been quite fruitful. Thanks to Dr. Rebman and his colleagues, we have a deeper understanding of the flora of this region but there is still plenty of more work to be done. Join us as we revisit a fascinating discussion of botanical discovery. This episode was produced in part by Dorothy, Katherine, Emily, Theo, Nichole, Paul, Karen, Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.

Baja Btes Sportfishing Baja (Norte) Tournaments Announced That Baja Guy - Gary Graham Feb 15 Bajabytes Sport Fishing Update February 14, 2023 2023 Sportfishing Tournaments offered in the upper section of the Baja Peninsula has something for everyone – from fishing the shore to chasing bluefin tuna on the high seas. The various events offer fishing opportunities in Ensenada, San Felipe, Punta Bunda, San Quintin, Bahai De Los Angeles, Cedros Island, and the many destinations, beaches, and lagoons. Visiting anglers can compete in events with entry fees that range from very reasonable to very dear. In addition, when visitors and locals meet, they share their passion for sports fishing, comparing the ultra-new equipment to the techniques handed down from generation to generation This episode is also available as a blog post: http://bajabytes.com/2023/02/15/baja-norte-tournaments-announced/

Christian Beamish is a writer, craftsman, surfboard shaper, and all-around adventurer who lives and works between Ventura and Carpinteria, California. He's the author of one of my favorite books– "The Voyage of the Cormorant"– which tells his deeply personal story of building an open-hulled boat by hand and then sailing it down the Baja Peninsula alone, surfing and camping along the way. He's also the owner of Surfboards California, where he hand-shapes a wide variety of custom boards for surfers of all skill levels. - Christian grew up in California, and for as long as he can remember, he's been connected to the ocean and committed to building things. He's lived an adventurous life that included a stint in the military, surf trips to the far reaches of the globe, and sailing trips up and down the Pacific Coast. And in addition to his work shaping surfboards and writing, he's also a committed husband, father, and community member. I greatly admire how Christian manages to balance all of these sometimes-competing roles, and I gained a lot of valuable perspective from this conversation. - I met up with Christian in Carpinteria, just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean, in a building that is home to several surfboard shapers and various creative folks. I've admired Christian's writing for over a decade, so it was a dream come true to have the opportunity to spend the morning with him. We covered a ton in this hour-long conversation– his lifelong connection to the ocean and craftsmanship, lessons learned from the military, how he developed his skill for writing, his amazing book "Voyage of the Cormorant," fatherhood, dealing with intense emotions, the craft of shaping surfboards, favorite books and authors, and much more. You can check out the episode notes for a list of all the topics we discussed and links to everything. - A huge thanks to Christian for welcoming me into his shop, and thanks to all of you for listening. Hope you enjoy. --- Christian Beamish Surfboards California "The Voyage of the Cormorant" by Christian Beamish Full episode notes & links: https://mountainandprairie.com/christian-beamish/ Ed's 2023 Strenuous Life Retreat --- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 4:00 - Christian talks about where he grew up 9:15 - What influenced his desire to build things 10:15 - Christian's relationship to work 12:30 - His writing practice and talks about when writing came into his life  16:00 - Christian tangles with how his literary interests and writing reconcile with his service in the US Navy 17:15 - Overview of his book, The Voyage of the Cormorant 24:45 - Christian reflects on the person he was when he started the voyage that inspired his book 27:30 - The inner challenges he experienced during his voyage 31:30 - His strategies for dealing with emotional challenges 33:00 - How having kids has affected his life 38:45 - Christian describes the surfboards he designs 43:00 - His transition from more standard surfing to big wave surfing 50:45 - Christian and Ed briefly discuss skiing 54:30 - Book recommendations, and a discussion of his family's history 1:01:00 - Parting words of advice for budding crafters and creators --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes Mountain & Prairie Shop Mountain & Prairie on Instagram Upcoming Events About Ed Roberson Support Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of the Gospel for Everyone.  In this episode, Jason and Lane sit down with Stephen Stockbridge, a small business owner who is taking the call of Jesus seriously and is beginning the process of living part time in the mission field.  

Today's podcast was written by Dan and Lisa Goy and presented by Perry MackDan and his wife Lisa went on their first Mexican RV adventure in 1985, travelling in a Ford van conversion with their two young children. Both Dan and Lisa's parents were frantic and were convinced they would be murdered, and their grandchildren kidnapped, never to be seen again. Nothing could have been further from reality.Their initial four-month adventure was a life-altering experience as they fell in love with ‘everything Mexico.' They drove down the Baja Peninsula travelling from beach to beach and then took a ferry from Cabo San Lucas to Puerto Vallarta on the mainland. Some unique experiences included spending time in Pie de la Cuesta just outside of Acapulco as well as enjoying Christmas with a local family in Mexico City, before returning home to British Columbia.Many RVers that they I have met at RV shows, rallies and seminars over the years have always asked, “Is Mexico safe to travel in an RV?” After touring some 200,000 km, they have never had a dangerous encounter.A camping experience in Mexico is more than just a tropical experience. It's the culture and customs that are truly unique and the people are always helpful and friendly. It was their love of Mexico and extensive travels that made them start Baja Amigos RV Caravan Tours in 2009. They now offer tours of Baja and the mainland. Of the 31 states in the country, they have visited all but five.

NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Sunday afternoon just off California's Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The 26-day Artemis 1 test mission marked a significant step toward returning astronauts to the moon. Miles O'Brien joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the mission and what's next. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Sunday afternoon just off California's Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The 26-day Artemis 1 test mission marked a significant step toward returning astronauts to the moon. Miles O'Brien joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the mission and what's next. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Frankly, I love doing all these interviews. I get to meet really creative people doing amazing work. Plus, I always feel I grow as a person after hearing their wonderful stories.My latest interview is no exception. She is smart, dynamic, and building an award-winning marketing/advertising firm that would make any community proud.Today I'm very pleased to introduce President/CEO & Owner, Allison Imre of Grapevine Communications.After buying this Lakewood Ranch firm in 2017 Allison continues to build upon the 20-year legacy of the previous owners by being CREATIVE. STRATEGIC. ACCOUNTABLE®In this episode, you'll learn ...One thing most people don't know about AllisonWhat led her to buy Grapevine over 5 years agoWhat type of work they do for their customersWhy it's OK to be authentic and unvarnished on social mediaWho should reach out to Grapevine... and much ... much ... more!Thank you for stopping by today. It is my hope you will listen ... learn ... and connect!FacebookInstagramLinkedInTwitterYoutubePinterestTikTokALLISON IMREPresident/CEO/OwnerBorn and raised in Kansas City, KS by a mother from LA and a father from NJ • Often regaled by stories of her parents' bi-coastal upbringing that created a hard-to-suppress wanderlust • Discovered her destiny for a career in communications at an early age, playing “radio” with family friend and veteran broadcaster Pete Gabriel • Landed a coveted position with the KC Royals Radio Network, combining her two loves: broadcasting and sports • Became the Owner/President of Grapevine in April 2017 • Lived in the Virgin Islands, on the Baja Peninsula, San Diego, New Orleans, Lake Tahoe and Colorado before settling in SRQ in 2004 • Married to a slightly above average fella named David • Mother to a toddler aptly named “Rip” • Paddleboarder, cancer survivor, snappy dresser and fantasy football champion.

The Baja 1000 is an arduous 1000-mile drive through the remote and desolate Baja Peninsula. For many, it wasn't a question of when you finished, but if you'd finish at all. The route is treacherous, and so is the weather. Drivers face flash floods and fog. Scorching heat and freezing cold. Rocks and boulders and unpredictable herds of animals. And if one broke down or got injured… the journey might cost a driver their life. How did a publicity stunt organized by a Hollywood stuntman grow into such a prestigious race? What has kept drawing racers back to the Baja 1000 for the last 55 years? And what makes the Baja 1000 one of the most treacherous races in the world? Today on Past Gas, the story of the Baja 1000. More about Show: Follow Nolan on IG and Twitter @nolanjsykes.   Follow Joe on IG and Twitter @joegweber. Follow Donut @donutmedia, and subscribe to our Youtube and Facebook channels!   Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: http://bit.ly/PastGas. If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/PastGas. Thanks to our sponsors: Get 33% off everything, plus free shipping at https://TommyJohn.com/GAS. It's one of Tommy John's BIGGEST sales of the year! Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/pastgas. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Go to https://PHILO.TV and use promo code GAS to get 50% off your first month to start watching today!  Start your credit journey today at https://chime.com/gas.  This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at https://BetterHelp.com/pastgas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Los Cabos Billfish Tournament Oct. 16-20, 2022 Each October, the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament kicks off the season with a fun, participant-focused event in one of the most action-packed fishing destinations in the world – Cabo San Lucas. Located at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean and the legendary Sea of Cortez meet, it is the dream destination of the competitive angler. In addition, it provides a plethora of billfish action and world-record-size gamefish to lure the big money and big fish tournaments, which is complemented by an all-star lineup of accommodations and activities. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://bajabytes.com/2022/10/11/los-cabos-million-dollar-tournaments-begin/

In the mid-1800s, the United States was full of adventurers and entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of the country's ever-expanding boundaries. One of them was a young lawyer and newspaper editor from Tennessee named William Walker. Hoping to establish his own republic, like Texas, Walker became a “filibuster” – a mercenary who attempts to colonize foreign lands without government authorization. He set his sights on a remote corner of Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula. But Walker's ragtag band of soldiers-for-hire quickly ran afoul of the Mexican authorities. This series was originally released as a Wondery+ exclusive.Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. https://wondery.app.link/historytellersSupport us by supporting our sponsors!Netsuite - Head to netsuite.com/tellers for a 1-of-a-kind financing offer to grow your business!Sleep Number - Special offers for a Limited Time are available at sleepnumber.com/tellers!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast, the hosts make their case for two great golf vacation destinations in Mexico. They explore the quality and quantity of golf in Cancun (a.k.a. the Riviera Maya), known for its tropical setting, and Cabo San Lucas (or Los Cabos) on the Baja Peninsula, where the desert meets the sea. They also answer a reader question and discuss their favorite golf books. This episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast is presented by Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Text of ReadingsFriday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 381All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint Junipero SerraIn 1776, when the American Revolution was beginning in the east, another part of the future United States was being born in California. That year a gray-robed Franciscan founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, now famous for its annually returning swallows. San Juan was the seventh of nine missions established under the direction of this indomitable Spaniard. Born on Spain's island of Mallorca, Serra entered the Franciscan Order taking the name of Saint Francis' childlike companion, Brother Juniper. Until he was 35, he spent most of his time in the classroom—first as a student of theology and then as a professor. He also became famous for his preaching. Suddenly he gave it all up and followed the yearning that had begun years before when he heard about the missionary work of Saint Francis Solano in South America. Junipero's desire was to convert native peoples in the New World. Arriving by ship at Vera Cruz, Mexico, he and a companion walked the 250 miles to Mexico City. On the way Junipero's left leg became infected by an insect bite and would remain a cross—sometimes life-threatening—for the rest of his life. For 18 years, he worked in central Mexico and in the Baja Peninsula. He became president of the missions there. Enter politics: the threat of a Russian invasion south from Alaska. Charles III of Spain ordered an expedition to beat Russia to the territory. So the last two conquistadors—one military, one spiritual—began their quest. José de Galvez persuaded Junipero to set out with him for present-day Monterey, California. The first mission founded after the 900-mile journey north was San Diego in 1769. That year a shortage of food almost canceled the expedition. Vowing to stay with the local people, Junipero and another friar began a novena in preparation for St. Joseph's day, March 19, the scheduled day of departure. On that day, the relief ship arrived. Other missions followed: Monterey/Carmel (1770); San Antonio and San Gabriel (1771); San Luís Obispo (1772); San Francisco and San Juan Capistrano (1776); Santa Clara (1777); San Buenaventura (1782). Twelve more were founded after Serra's death. Junipero made the long trip to Mexico City to settle great differences with the military commander. He arrived at the point of death. The outcome was substantially what Junipero sought: the famous “Regulation” protecting the Indians and the missions. It was the basis for the first significant legislation in California, a “Bill of Rights” for Native Americans. Because the Native Americans were living a nonhuman life from the Spanish point of view, the friars were made their legal guardians. The Native Americans were kept at the mission after baptism lest they be corrupted in their former haunts—a move that has brought cries of “injustice” from some moderns. Junipero's missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples. Through it all his unquenchable zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight till dawn. He baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000. His travels would have circled the globe. He brought the Native Americans not only the gift of faith but also a decent standard of living. He won their love, as witnessed especially by their grief at his death. He is buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. Pope Francis canonized him in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 2015. Reflection The word that best describes Junipero is zeal. It was a spirit that came from his deep prayer and dauntless will. “Always forward, never back” was his motto. His work bore fruit for 50 years after his death as the rest of the missions were founded in a kind of Christian communal living by the Indians. When both Mexican and American greed caused the secularization of the missions, the Chumash people went back to what they had been—God again writing straight with crooked lines. Saint Junipero Serra is the Patron Saint of: California Missions Click here for more on Saint Junipero Serra! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

In this week's Fatal Conceits Podcast, we're joined by globetrotting editor of the Real Estate Trend Alert, Ronan McMahon... If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that the “new normal” is unlikely to look anything like the “old normal.” That goes for the financial world as much as it does the job market and practically everything else about the way you live, work and even spend your leisure time. The “Great Covid Interruption” (and the governments' responses to it) accelerated a nascent trend away from congested, overpriced, high-crime metropolises toward remote work and retirement destinations… many of them overseas. Just as Californians and New Yorkers are ditching their overtaxed, over-regulated, over-mandated home states in record numbers, opting for relaxed and rural alternatives, so too are Americans and Europeans in general looking beyond their own borders, wondering…“Could I enjoy the same – or even better – lifestyle on the Riviera Maya… or Los Cabos… or Portugal's wild Costa de Prata? And could I do so… for a fraction of the cost?”With inflation biting big time at home… and self-serving politicians looking to tighten the screws further on honest, working folk… maybe it is time to look for a better way?We caught Ronan mid-migration, en route from Mexico's Baja Peninsula to his summer residence in Ireland. What this man doesn't know about international real estate opportunities is simply not worth knowing. So whether you're looking to invest some time and/or money abroad… or you just want to escape the rat race for an hour and imagine yourself on a white sandy beach with a margarita and a good book, this episode of the Fatal Conceits Podcast is for you…Saludos!Joel BowmanP.S. For readers interested in learning more about Ronan's work, you can access a 100% risk free trial of his Real Estate Trend Alert service for 90 days, right here…As always, go right ahead and drop any comments… including YOUR favorite overseas destination (and why it is so)… in the section below. Also, feel free to share our humble podcast with globetrotting friends and desk-bound foes alike, here…TRANSCRIPT:Joel Bowman:Welcome to the Fatal Conceits Podcast dear listener, a show about money, markets, mobs, and manias, not necessarily in that order. If you're a first time listener or you are joining us once again, please do head over to our substack page, that's at bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com. There you'll be able to find hundreds of articles and research papers on everything from high finance to lowly politics, and plenty more besides, including many discussions under the fatal conceits podcast section, just like this. And for today's episode, I'm delighted to welcome back. One of my very favorite guests, a long time personal friend and friend of the Bonner Private Research family, a man with I think possibly the coolest job title in the world that is International Real Estate Scout. Please welcome Mr. Ronan McMahon. How do you do sir?Ronan McMahon:Joel, lovely to be here as always, doing good.Joel Bowman:Fantastic. Now mate, last time you and I spoke, if you'll recall on this podcast, I was in your sometimes hometown of Cabo San Lucas on the Baja peninsula in Mexico. And you were in, I guess, one of your other sometimes homes on Portugal's west coast. Where do we find you today?Ronan McMahon:I'm talking to you today from an Airbnb in Guadalajara-Joel Bowman:Of course, you are.Ronan McMahon:Of all Places. I did just to kind lower the sexiness of it. I'm not quite beachfront. I'm looking out at beautiful flowering, Hacienda trees, but I'm making my way east, my eastward migration from Cabo San Lucas to Ireland to Portugal is underway.Joel Bowman:Okay. Yeah, we were mentioning just before going on air here, that we're both in the midst of packing for our seasonal migrations. For listeners who are unfamiliar with your no air condition and no heating rule that you've imposed upon your life, do you want to give us your migratory pattern of an International Real Estate Scout?Ronan McMahon:Absolutely Joel. So the maybe starting where I'm now in terms of this block of the year, summer is in Ireland. I'm Irish as you well know, I like to take that high summer in Ireland where we've got these long summer days until 10:30, 10:45 at night, everything is green, everything is beautiful. The weather can be okay. It can be mixed. I don't really mind if it's rainy because I'm coming from sunny, Mexico, and I've got my fix of sun. Then typically both shoulder seasons, spring and fall. I like to be in Portugal. It's actually the silver coast that stretch of coast, north of Lisbon, amazing big wide, long sandy beaches, kind of wild Atlantic weather, but it's warm and it's pleasant and I'm right on a beautiful beach and on a great ocean front golf course in Praia del Rey, and got wide open spaces, great food, really, really special place to spend time.And then my winters are in my home in Cabo, San Lucas, Mexico. So there again, I get these beautiful winters in Cabo where it's kind of mid seventies, low eighties, nearly always t-shirt, but often it's long pants in the evening. So following that route, I learned a couple of things Joel when I started traveling, first is weather and at this very conditions are very important to my overall sense of wellbeing. I had asthma, and a mild asthma, when I was young I would've told you it wasn't a big deal, but then when I moved to a low humidity place or spent time in a low humidity place, like Cabo San Lucas, I started to realize, geez, I really, really feel a lot better with this sunshine and low humidity. And I also don't do well in heat. That's the Irish boy in me.So I found life is a lot better when I just move around and follow both weather conditions and places that agree with me. And along the way too, I'll get to scratch a lot of those itches. I mean, I love to live in places that are really quiet and have the sense of isolation while being relatively close to an international airport. But I also like to get my big world class city fixes. So I think no year is complete without some time in London and Paris and so that's how I like to organize and work and do my research and do my deal making along the way as I go.[Ed. Note: Learn more about Ronan's Real Estate Trend Alert, and how to start your own 100% risk free trial, right here.]Joel Bowman:Well, I want to get into that work that you're doing and that you've been doing, of course, with Bill Bonner, for goodness, as long as I've known you. And that Bill has been doing since going back, I guess, to the seventies, with the founding of International Living, but just right off the top, it seems like just such a kind of bond spy-esque, existence, just sort of cruising from one place to the next. But you've spent the better part of your career showing people how actually to do this and actually sort of where the rubber meets the road with regards to how they can potentially make that happen in their life. But I wanted to just go back to one point that we mentioned in our last conversation on this show, and that was over the past few years, there seems to have been this catalyzing event with the sort of the global pandemic and people have been locked in their homes for a long time.And now it seems they've gotten out the world is just beginning to start opening up again. They're starting to look over the back fence and reimagine themselves on these sort of grand tours, if you will. But I think one of the points you brought up last time was that a lot of people who had been living in very high price cities, maybe San Francisco or Chicago or New York, came to find that actually, they weren't really getting the bang for their buck with regards to rent, let's say San Francisco, I think it's the highest in the U.S. at some astronomical figure, but it did seem like the pandemic catalyzed a bit of an outflow from those cities. There were, of course, these famous zoom towns and people commuting to work.I know there was a lot of talk about that trend reversing, or maybe even just contracting in the wake of the pandemic, but it does seem like people who got a bit of a whiff of freedom are reluctant to give that up. And that maybe actually, this is the beginning of a kind of reverse migration from those big cities that people are now trying to get out of. Does that resonate with you and your experience?Ronan McMahon:I mean, first of all, Joel, I would say straight up, you will have heard no talk from me of reversal, not for a second. And secondly, this has been the... It's a big acceleration rather than something that COVID has triggered. So let me right back to the start because you're scratching on something here that is so integral to the way the world is changing, it's so integral to the opportunities that we have in terms of how we organize ourselves, and so integral to investment opportunities. So first of all, this was happening anyway. So over the last 10 or 15 years, just this thing of remote work, remote managing a business, remote and enjoying your retirement. That was really, really becoming a thing.I was seeing just the explosion of beach cities, like Playa del Carmen in Mexico, or Lagos in Portugal. So this is all happening anyway, and along the way, there have been a few kind of accelerating events. And it's really interesting to look at these accelerating events because they might surprise you. So one accelerating event was the last crisis, the great financial crisis followed by the Arab spring and instability in the Middle East and North Africa. So I think a lot of people perceive these jolts to the system as somehow leading to stagnation. But what it really means is that the people who are in a position financially and in terms of skills get out. So the great recession, the last financial crisis, upended things, people moved to where... It just challenged everything.So people moved to places like the Costa del Sol in Spain, and they figured out how to make a better life for themselves. And likewise, with the Arab Spring, now this is for a very different type of group, but I think it's a really, really interesting example because all that instability led to an influx again, into places like the Costa del Sol in Spain and Paris. So when the system gets shaken up, what happens is people reassess. So before COVID, we had been seeing this it was almost like a rough run, people left... Maybe that's an inappropriate analogy, but the people left San Francisco, because it was too expensive and too this and too that and to the other thing, and they moved Austin. And then from Austin, they were moving to Tulum or to Panama or to Lisbon. And then COVID hit and everything goes up in the air and people are going straight from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas or Tulum.Even though people are flooding into Austin as an example, many, many people are also leaving and going to these other locations. During COVID, we saw how older people were less inclined to travel. Since things have started opening up and freeing up, they're traveling in great numbers to enjoy their time and enjoy their retirement. I'm seeing more and more of these places, these very desirable places to spend time. Think about living in your dream beach city, you've got pristine white sands, you've got the best restaurants imaginable, you're surrounded by a group of like-minded individuals, your accommodation, and all your costs of living are a quarter or a fifth of what they're in in San Francisco.These places are developing into their own ecosystems with their own startups, with their own vibrancy, with their own energy. This genie is not going back in the bottle. Now, Joel, that's not to say people won't return to offices to some extent, and that's not to say that every company will be remote or stay remote, but just remember the have a dramatic impact on places like Cabo San Lucas are like Lagos in Portugal. It just takes a very, very small percentage of San Francisco tech workers or New York bankers, it just takes a very small amount to them to really, really move the needle. And this is creating maybe the biggest investment opportunity of my lifetime in places like, these places I'm talking about.And I'm thinking particularly about kind of Cabo San Lucas as I speak with you because tomorrow we open a new opportunity that's members only to my group of real estate investors. And in Cabo San Lucas, we've just seen incredibly fast rates of capital appreciation from our members only deals. And we've seen rental rates more than doubled since pre COVID. So it's been a great opportunity in terms of financially for us to be able to tap into these trends too.Joel Bowman:Yeah, that's fantastic. And I'll include a link to the work that you do at Real Estate Trend Alert in our transcript here. (See Ronan's RETA service here.) When you and I was speaking about Cabo San Lucas and I was ironically there and you were in Portugal at the time, one of the things that struck me that you had observed, and this is speaking as a, I won't say a young father, but the father of a young daughter is that when people move to these... To work remotely in places like Cabo and places like in, on the Maya Riviera, et cetera, or in Europe, they bring with them a certain demand for example, education for their kids. And you were seeing small communities of generally like-minded individuals, young professionals with elastic salaries that were now going a lot further.Those people were starting to demand on location, education for their kids, which I know for a lot of people a lot of my friends in the U.S. are paying through the nose for what they're increasingly finding out is substandard education or indeed indoctrination for their kids. And as with people who are starting to work remotely, people who are living remotely are quickly realizing that for a lot less pennies on the dollar, they're able to afford some help around the house, a nanny, a private tutor, piano lessons, all this kind of stuff that would've just been absolutely impossible had they stayed at home, but that creates a whole sort of sub economy that's very vibrant in places like Cabo. Would you agree there?Ronan McMahon:Absolutely. And I mean, this exists at every level. You take you as a father of a young child you're thinking about the various infrastructure that goes with that. Maybe you're an avid golfer and you realize that now you come here and you need golf lessons, or you're a tennis player, and you need tennis coaching followed by a massage and you like certain types of food. And all this is just people and ideas in a mobile virtual world, people and ideas are the resources that make an economy kick. So not only do you have, and do you develop that service infrastructure, nannies, kindergartens, accredited schools, universities, all this stuff, but you also find that ingenuity starts to get transferred.So for example my team is dotted around the world. And now I see for example some of my team is based in Medellin in Columbia. So now we need to get tech consulting services, close to that person and close to that little team. So now we're going out a level in the ring because it's more convenient to have our tech consultants close on hand to that person. It's easy for them to connect and collaborate on certain things. So now these little pods, so where I maybe had two team members, now maybe they have another four or six people supporting them and providing frequently very, very high level services. And those services are priced at a global market price because all those people are selling their time and selling their ideas and selling their brain power into a global market. So it's transformational what this brings to a lower wage economy when all of a sudden you've got this cohort that are earning at U.S. levels.Joel Bowman:Yeah, there's a huge opportunity there and having lived abroad myself in the middle and the far east and down, down here in south America, I think when we spend our childhoods in one country in, be that Europe or in the U.S., or in Australia, in my case, we get used to a certain type of market and forget that it's a big, big world out there. So speaking of which one of your mantras, I guess, or one of your sort of guiding principles when it comes to looking at places around the world to invest, and you've mentioned a few of them here is this idea, this path of progress idea. And I wonder if you could just take a second just to explain that what you mean by that, and then we can get into some places that potentially you're looking at presently.Ronan McMahon:Yeah. Exactly Joel. What I see as a path of progress event is something that makes a place and typically in my context, it's a place that's very beautiful, very attractive. Something happens that all of a sudden makes that accessible. So historically, that's been big infrastructure event. A new airport comes to a Caribbean island, a new bridge connects two areas. So big infrastructure projects that made beautiful places that were historically difficult to get to much much more accessible. So the big examples of this I like to use Mexico's Rivera Maya as the classic example, because this is the stretch of coast that starts out of Cancun and goes down to Tulum, those pristine white sand beaches. And there was nothing there, go back to the sixties, there was, I mean, literally nothing. A few Mayan villages in land, but nothing on the coast.And then the Mexican government through their tourism promotion body came up with the idea of creating a tourism destination. So they built Cancun airport and built the infrastructure for a hotel zone. So this was like a master planned tourism event. And then from there, they built roads. So first Cancun developed, it developed, thanks to that improved air accessibility, then they built a highway to Playa del Carmen, development followed, and then onto Tulum. So it's typically these big infrastructure events that improve accessibility. Now, that idea of this being infrastructure driven, I'm really broadening it out over the past couple of years to include things like technological developments that allow for remote work just these big changes that support and accelerate these trends.Joel Bowman:Yeah, that's very interesting. I was speaking with our mutual friend Will Bonner, Bill's son when he came to visit his dad up in Salta and we traveled around... And this is in the Northern reaches of Argentina for our listeners and where Bill has some property and he, and Will run a wine partnership up there. Very remote part of the world, really arid kind of Luna-esque landscape in many ways. And that's part of the reason that they have their wine partnership up there. This really extreme altitude vineyards and extreme conditions for growing grapes.But it's very interesting, he was mentioning that, or one of our co-travelers was mentioning that the Saltan government had some conversations or some inroads with setting up Starlink internet access up there, which is this decentralized very, very futuristic sounding private internet satellite connections. Which when I think about something like that it going back to the sixties, it was, you had to land an airplane on a strip somewhere to bring people and bring opportunities to a place like Cancun. Now we go to somewhere it's that this is about as remote as you can get up in, on the Bolivian, Chilean border in far Northern Argentina. And we walk around and we see kids in cafes on their laptops doing their business. It's this sort of progress. It almost feels like the whole world is opening up. In that scenario, how do you pinpoint one particular place over another when something like a tech expansion or liberation feels like it could be just super ubiquitous.Ronan McMahon:And just the other thing too, Joel, that's going on is that the governments right across the world are competing for us. There is just now this succession of golden visa programs, remote work visas. Governments right across the world are looking to attract in mobile people. So it comes down to, and so just, how do you pinpoint the next areas that are set to explode? For me, this is really, really easy right now, because what we're talking about is a mass acceleration. So there's this variety of places that have proven themselves free acceleration to be the most desirable places for remote workers, for mobile people, for retirees, for this whole cohort, which it's very interesting that can exist so seamlessly side by side, because you say digital nomads, people might have some preconception, but you go to a place like Playa del Carmen in Mexico, and you have young trendy, digital nomads, you have young families, you have older retirees. These places broadly have the same kind of basket of things that are appealing to everyone.So our strongest opportunity in terms of tapping into this is to go with places that have already proven themselves pre COVID, pre mass transformation, that's number one. And secondly, look to their hinterland and to see where the next places in proximity, where is the overflow going to go? So to give an example and I'm, again I've just been the past few months in Cabo, and that's where I've been doing a lot of research and scouting, but Cabo are the lost Cabos area of Mexico. Let's say Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. That's had this massive explosion fueled by a range of things, including all this stuff we've been talking about, plus improved air accessibility.Now, on the margins of that, there's this whole bucket of new places, okay. So Cabo San Lucas has been this like, well established Uber luxury destination for decades. In the last couple of years, development has been moving along the coast to Pescadero and Todos Santos. I predicted transformation of both Pescadero and Todos Santos five years ago, now those two areas and Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico, Pescadero is an area 10 minutes closer to Cabo San Lucas that's got an abundant supply of water. So it's attracted all these really cool foodie destinations. But those places you've got, let's call it the overflow. And I'm hesitant, it's quasi overflow, but it's also that the pioneers who came there 10, 20 years ago all of a sudden Cabo is too mainstream, too many big box stores, too many of all these things that are attracting maybe the more conventional, practical people. Next thing, the pioneers are going an hour down the road.So outside of Cabo, we're seeing this transformation of the Baja I've just come from La Paz, which is the state capital of Baja, California Sur. And that's this beautiful sleepy kind of seaside town with the lovely Malecon. And it is just exploding with new restaurants, just this vibrancy in the foodie scene, new boutique hotels, new niche developments popping up all around. So the Todos Santos and Pescadero are along the Pacific coast that runs north of Cabo San Lucas. You go east of Cabo and you hit the east Cape, and that's on the Sea of Cortez side. And again there, there's all this new funky stuff happening. Some of those beach towns to the east of Los Cabos like La Ventana, they feel like Tulum on the Caribbean side of 15, 20 years ago.So the way to play this is to back the horse, that one in a more challenging environment, that's step one, that's the most solid play. And then the more speculative play, if you want to get out ahead of the next trend, find the places that's one step removed, one step away from that proven place. And you can take wild speculative hunts on, let's say an Albania, for example, I could make a very compelling argument for why Albania might be very much worth looking as a speculative long term punt. But then I think to myself, why would I bother looking to Albania when I can look two hours north of Cabo San Lucas, where I literally can look two hours north of a market where the average nightly hotel rate is $455, where a significant portion of the tourist industry is the luxury segment with nightly rates starting at 1500 bucks a night, where you go in through the airport and you see everything from new budget airlines to the most congested, private jet parking lot I see everywhere.So that in my view, Joel, we can look to kind of very speculative upsides in a way that's very low risk by following that strategy.Joel Bowman:Yeah. So interesting that you mentioned Albania, my wife and I were there, what would've been maybe 10, well, eight years ago say, and we were at the very Southern tip there just right on the Greek border at a little place called Butrint. And my wife is an avid classist and has her own classics website, classicswisdom.com., if you want to head over and check it out. But we were there on a, just on a whim it's very difficult to get to. At least it was at the time. You had to go... You couldn't cross over the border from Montero, you had to sort of zigzag ferries up and down the Adriatic, and we ended up getting a taxi to take us over the Greek border. And went on a floating bridge, and there was a mule ride. At some point it was very, very off the beat track, but once we got to the beach, my goodness, it was just a little slice of paradise.And there was an old ancient ruin there that was said to have been Odysseus's first stop on his way home from the Trojan war. It was all very, very interesting. And we had the place practically to ourselves because there was literally, nobody had heard of it. And Albania of course, had been such a hermit kingdom for so long that it was... It very much felt that we were off the beaten path and maybe the opposite of Corfu or something where it was just a more regular open to practical travelers, shall we say. But it's interesting that you remark on Todos Santos and places like this.I've been thinking for many years that it's these little in the knowledge communities who are going a little further beyond who discover these things. And I'd heard about Todos Santos many years ago, having grown up as a surfer because of, as you, of course know, it's been and long been a big destination for big wave surfers off the west coast there. And it's interesting to see now these people coming in and putting tennis courts in and infinity pools and that's in the next wave of progress, but it does go to show that you really need to be amongst those circles, talking about these places, getting your boots dirty, doing the investigative and scouting work that you do, because it's oftentimes within those small communities, just word of mouth where you hear about the next thing that's taking off.I wanted to ask you about Tulum on the other coast, because I know you've been doing some workout there, and then maybe sort of get into exactly what kind of opportunities it is by way of construction and investment and pre-construction deals you're able to leverage for your readers and into a bit of the nuts and bolts. But I guess just selfishly I'm very intrigued by what I've heard about Tulum recently. Can you give us a bit of an insight there?Ronan McMahon:Yeah. And just when you mention surfers too, Joel, I think of Nicaragua and I think of how the first of international visitors were those avid surfers who crossed the border from Costa Rica. Costa Rica gets discovered, Northern Costa Rica becomes moderately busy. Again, those people on the frontier on the edge, they're looking for the next place. You just see this time and time again, the artists, the French and Italian cooks, you just follow these types around because they're only looking for the best. So they're mobile, they'll go wherever is best. And they, different groups unlock are they both find, and then they also create some of these transformations because a lot of these transformations come about when a certain community brings a certain design sense or something to a neighborhood and triggers a gentrification.And Tulum is just one of those places where you just have this like 13 kilometers of just absolute pristine beach. You have got an area of town around, along the beach that backs the beach, and then you've got Tulum town itself, which is vibrant and diverse. It's just incredible to just see the transformation within Tulum. Yeah, I remember it's probably just a few short years ago, popup restaurant. So Tulum was the place when Bill created international living, the very first issue of international living in 1979, I believe was about Tulum. And Bill rode about finding naked hippies frolicking in the beach. Now, there's still hippies and partially clad hippies, but there's a type of-Joel Bowman:Now there's highly paid models.Ronan McMahon:And there's the types of hippies who are paying $1,500 per night to stay in a beach house.Joel Bowman:Right. I'd take a piece.Ronan McMahon:Yeah. So like, I mean, I for a long time, every time I'd go, I'd send Bill a photo of a kind of line of hipsters queuing up to have dinner in one of these trendy restaurants. And Bill was blown away that this was Tulum. And then he came down there with me just before COVID became a thing for us. So I guess, February of 2020, but it is just this pristine, beautiful beach, for me, it's the nicest beach on earth or one of the nicest beaches on earth, certainly that top, top, top tier, and you just have this amazing experience of great food, great beach, people bike around the place.It's just very funky and very vibrant and just really, really beautiful. And then so much to do around because you've got ancient Mayan ruins on the cliff, you're a short drive to Coba, which is this Mayan ancient Mayan city. You've got Cenotes which are these kind of these sinkholes so the whole peninsula is built on limestone. So over the centuries, some of these have just collapsed into giant holds that just leave these beautiful, fresh water kind of sink holds or lakes with caves. And it's just really, really beautiful and a very, very special and vibrant and diverse place.And it's created a huge real estate opportunity just for all those reasons that we've talked about. And investors who've got in have, have done extremely well and will continue to do extremely well as those both long term and short term rental rates increase.Joel Bowman:Yeah. I bet I'm cognizant of the fact that I'm sure our listeners realize in both yourself, Ronan and myself, that we're wonder lost people. And we could rhapsodize about exotic places around the world, probably for a lot longer than we've got time for on this particular show. But I wanted to get to exactly how investors, whether or not they're people who want to spend a significant portion of their time, let's say, and actually physically be in one of these many places that we're talking about, or if perhaps they wanted to place sort of a, put some capital down and invest in something along the risk profile from steady high rental rate security to perhaps something more speculative at the other end, how your Real Estate Trend Alert can help identify opportunities for them and get them started on one of those paths.Ronan McMahon:Yeah. So I guess, Joel first of all, the research that I do along with my team, because again, it's a very, very big world. And since I've founded Real Estate Trend Alert way back in 2008, I've realized that it's a big patch of ground. We have to cover. So the more help I have the better, but we pan out across the globe and we find places that are set to be very, very strong beneficiaries from these big trends that we're seeing. So the first thing people can do is invest in those recommendations. So for example, five years ago was a, what I would call a macro recommendation, which was to buy land or homes in a certain neighborhood of Todos Santos. And that's a scenario where I've identified the place that's on the up. And I've explained to readers what I see as the best way to profit from it.The next step where it becomes, I guess, more easily actionable for readers is where I sit down with the developer and I use our group buying power to negotiate special members only pricing and terms on the deal. So for example, tomorrow in Cabo San Lucas, we have a new members only deal that's opening up. We get to buy ahead of this deal being announced to the general broader and local market. We get to pick the best inventory and we get a very, very significant discount on what the developer will charge to everyone else. So the benefit of that is we get the benefit of the group buying power, because I invest along with my fellow RETA members in many of those deals in fact, in this Cabo deal tomorrow, I plan on buying two condos.We get the benefit of our combined group buying power because when I sit down with the developer, I can get a pricing based on us taking a big number of condos. Maybe it's a hundred condos rather than just getting a price on one condo for myself. And then secondly, we also to get to leverage me and my teams research, identifying the best neighborhoods and very, very importantly, the best developers to work with. Individually, every RITA member should absolutely do their own due diligence, but we certainly do a lot of the grunt work and provide a lot of the filtering out of the people that you certainly don't want to be doing business with. So there's the macro research that you can just take and figure out your own land deal yourself, or we'll introduce you to brokers in many cases and you go figure out your pricing and do your own negotiation there, and then from time to time probably about eight times a year, we'll have a big member only deal. And that's what we have tomorrow in Cabo San Lucas.Joel Bowman:All right, mate. Fantastic. I'm looking forward to joining your group on one of these future joints, somewhere around the world, but I think before then, you and I might have a chance to catch up in Ireland. I'm going to be there for most of... Well, I'm going to be there for a short while at the end of June. I'm not sure what your movements are, but we might potentially be able to sneak in a pint of Guinness sometime along the way.Ronan McMahon:Would absolutely love to. And are you going to be circling back through Ireland as well?Joel Bowman:I'm not quite sure yet, where we've got a bit of a... It was interesting you were mentioning that so many retirees are now reentering the outside world again after the great interruption that was the past couple of years and my parents are among them. So they had a lifelong dream trip that they had planned to go to Scandinavia and check out the fjords in Norway. They had planned that trip for February of 2020, so obviously that got shelved and they were sort of waylaid in Australia for a couple of years. So anyway, they've now just embarked on that trip, long overdue. So my wife and daughter are I are going to go and meet them, check out the fjords and hang out with the grandparents for a little while.The reason that we're coming through Dublin just, and my readers are going to hear a bit more than they probably want to hear about this, but I'm going to go to the birthplace of your kin, Mr. James Joyce. Of course, he has his blooms day celebration on June 16th of every year. So this is the Centennial celebration a hundred years since the release and publication of Joyce's Ulysses. So geeks and literary freaks such as my own kind will be converging on your fair capital for June 16th celebrations and following in Leopold Bloom's footsteps. And again, my readers will hear way more than this, about this and than they want to, but that's the primary reason for going. We may circle back through depending on time constraints and some other things, but one way or another mate, let's make that Guinness happen either there or maybe well, we've got plenty of other places to catch up in the world too.Ronan McMahon:Absolutely. And my summer base is very close to you all. So I'm 33 minute drive from Bill and you all. So if you're taking a summer tea or a summer malbec under the big tree in front of his kitchen, which is a lovely spot to look down on the black water and the rolling Hills of East Cork and Waterford, that would be a lovely spot for us to connect and catch up there too.Joel Bowman:Oh, perfect. Mate, let's make that happen. Okay. I'm going to put a link to your Real Estate Trend Alert underneath, and Ronan as always. It's a real pleasure catching up, and I hope that our readers have enjoyed this virtual tour around the world and are looking forward to embarking on one of their own pretty soon. Please, to our readers checkout our Substack page once again, it's bonnnerprivateresearch.substack.com for many more conversations like this. Ronan, thanks you very much for your time. Catch you again soon.Ronan McMahon:Thanks, Joel. Take care.Thank you for reading Bonner Private Research. This post is public, so feel free to share it with homebodies and globetrotters alike... 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The next generation of culinary artisans are changing up the industry. These artisans have a whole new approach to reaching and satisfying the next generation consumer. In this podcast we will explore chefs and artisans from around the world diving into their story and passion. In this episode of Chef AF, Pepe chats with Chef Jose Garces about growing up around fantastic Ecuadorian cuisine, why he started developing plant-based foods and launching his latest concept.When asked about becoming a chef, Garces talks about growing up and watching fantastic cooks, his Mother and Grandmother, preparing foods revolving around the cuisine of Ecuador. Garces talks about attending cooking school in Chicago at Kendall, moving to Spain and working at the local eateries and hotels. He talks about moving to New York, where he worked under mentors at the Four Seasons and the Rainbow Room. He says, “I'd say that part of my career is where I really learned how to cook, how to become a Chef. I would say it was my heaviest training there.” Garces moved from New York to Philadelphia in 2000. He shares that the next part of his career involved leaning into ownership and entrepreneurial opportunities. He opened his first restaurant, Amada, named after his Grandmother, in 2005. He talks about competing on ‘The Next Iron Chef',  becoming an ‘Iron Chef', and appearing on 5 seasons of the show. He says, “I have quite a few battles under my belt.”Pepe and Garces discuss why he started developing plant-based foods. He shares that there were a few factors in the decision. He tells Pepe that a colleague had reached out to him and asked if he would be interested in collaborating on a project to create Latin inspired plant-based meals. Garces says that around the same time-frame, his daughter was having gluten allergies as well as lactose intolerance, and they found that a plant-based diet worked better for her. Garces says, “I was challenged to create these plant-based foods and I took it on wholeheartedly.” He says the result was the launch of Casa Verde.Pepe asks Garces about his most recent endeavor, a Mexican fast casual concept. Garces is excited to talk about the opening of Buena Onda, which means ‘Good Vibes'. The restaurant, a Baja Taqueria, was inspired by the spirit of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Garces talks about how the restaurant is scaling in both units and with new franchising opportunities. He adds, “This should be a national brand within this year.”To hear Garces talk more about plant-based foods, virtual brands, and the Garces Foundation, check out this episode of Chef AF “It's All Food” or you can listen at Spotify!Produced by Lisa Pepe

People used to say "If you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you," but they really should have said, "I have some lovely acres in the Republic of Poyais you can buy, but you have to act now!"  Presenting one of my favorite con artists ever, the man who declared himself prince of a South American country that didn't exist, Gregor MacGregor (yes, that's really his name). Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   Remember back in episode 155, Hate to Burst your Bubble, we talked about, among other things, the Florida real estate boom and bust of the 1920s?  It's where we get the phrase, “if you believe that, I have some real estate in Florida to sell you.”  100 years before that, we could have been saying, “I have some acreage in Poyais to sell you.”  Never been to Poyais?  Trust me, it's amazing.  The weather is always perfect, sunny and warm.  Located along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, the soil of Poyais is so fertile, you can get three harvests of corn a year.  The trees are heavy with fruit and the forests teem with entrees in the form of game animals.  If you look into the rivers, you'll not only see water cleaner and more pure than you've ever seen in your life and more fish than you could hope to catch, but in the river bed, the sparkle of gold fills your eyes, not from flecks and dust, but nuggets as big as walnuts, just laying there, waiting for you to scoop them up.  The only thing missing is settlers to develop and leverage its resources to the fullest.  Wanna get your share?  Better hurry; hundreds of people are investing all their savings in a piece of the perfect Poyais.  All you have to do is [] to the Cazique or prince.  Who is the prince of this equatorial new world paradise?  A Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor.     MacGregor was born in 1786.  His father, who died when Gregor was 4, was a captain sailing with the East India Company, so adventuring on a quest for riches might well have been in his blood.  A clever chap from the get-go, Gregor enrolled in the University of Edinburgh at age 15, though he never finished his degree.  No shade thrown there, I'm a 3-time community college drop-out and look how I turned out!  (pause, sigh)  At age 17, he took after his grandfather and joined the British Army, where he quickly rose up the ranks to lieutenant, captain, and major, largely by buying the next rank up, but that's pretty much how it was done back then.  Two years after enlisting, MacGregor married a Royal Navy Admiral's daughter, and a mere five years after that, probably because he'd married into money, he retired from the army.  The young couple moved to London, where Gregor called himself Sir and claimed to be a baronet, which ranks underneath baron in British noble hierarchy and is apparently a modest enough lie that no one would think to put the effort and time into checking it out.     But ‘easy street' only lasted another year before his wife died.  No more wife meant no more wealthy in-laws, so MacGregor sold his Scottish estate and relocated to Caracas, Venezuela, where he married another wealthy family's daughter.  Never let it be said he's not consistent.  Wife 2 was actually a cousin of Simon Bolivar, of Bolivia fame.  He was able to sell his military prowess to Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan revolutionary general.  There was rather a lot of revolution going on in Spanish colonies at the time while Spain was well distracted dealing with a certain actually-of-average-height French emperor.  At least MacGregor wasn't lying about his soldiery, securing a number of victories and becoming a notable figure for the revolutionary set all across LatAm.     In 1820, MacGregor moved to a former British Colony, in Nicaragua, which, true to its name, a swampy and pest-infested area that Europeans had until that point left to the Mosquito Natives.  In 1830, MacGregor traded jewelry and rum for eight million acres of land.  Now that was either an F-ton of rum or the land was utterly worthless.  I'll give you three guesses.  The land was completely useless for farming, kinda of a big deal, being the production of foodstuff and whatnot.     Realizing there was no way he could draw settlers in with the land as it was, MacGregor decided to draw them in with the land as it wasn't.  So he headed back to England, where he was well-known in society circles for his military achievements, leading his men into battle against great odds.  Society not knowing that he'd also abandoned his men.  Twice.  But he rubbed elbows with the muckety-mucks nonetheless, telling them all about his new world paradise, the Republic of Poyais.  And he went so far beyond Baron Munchausenian story-telling.   Gregor made up a whole country and everything that goes along with it.  To hear him tell it, the Republic of Poyais was not an impenetrable, parasite-ridden jungle, but a glorious tableau with a thriving civilization with a parliament, banks, an opera house and cathedral.  The weather was ideal, a perpetual summer that was very appealing to Londoners.  The soil was so rich that farming required almost no labor.  The rivers that wound down the mountains teemed with fish and the surrounding forests were thick with game animals.  In this dubious district, the capital of St Joseph had a massive infrastructure and a population of about 20,000 people.  The economy was robust, if you felt like doing anything other than scooping up all the gold that was just laying around.  MacGregor had pamphlets promoting printed, and they sold in the thousands around the streets of London and Edinburgh.  He started a nationwide campaign to attract investment, taking out big ads in newspapers and even opened sales offices.     The world-building that went into this scam would have made GRRM blush.  Maybe even JRR Tolkien.  Feel free to at me on social media; I love a spirited nerd debate.  He came up with a tricameral Parliament and a commercial banking system.  Like an African dictator, he designed Poyaian military uniforms, several, different ones for different regiments.  He published a 350 page guidebook, under the pen name Thomas Strangeways, with a sliver of real facts about the region, but the Pacman portion of the pie chart all came from his preposterous posterior.  The book was full of detailed sketches and MacGregor had a seemingly endless supply of official-looking documents.  He had offices set up in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh to sell land certificates, which people eagerly bought.  The whole operation looked completely legit; you wouldn't even think to doubt it.  MacGregor didn't just succeed in his con, he was *wildly successful.  Not only did MacGregor raise £200,000 directly – the bond market value over his life ran to £1.3 million, or about £3.6 billion today – but he convinced seven ships' worth of eager settlers to make their way across the Atlantic. It became a popular investment, and many sank their life savings in land deed in Republic of Poyais.  A London Bank underwrote a £2000 pound loan, £23mil or $30mil today, secured with the land sales.     MacGregor was signing up settlers left and right.  Settlers meant development, which meant the value of bonds and land certificates would go up, which would attract more settlers and investors, driving the price up further.  Gee, it's like crime does kinda pay.  Skilled tradesmen were promised free passage and ostensibly, supposedly government contract work.  Don't think it was only the under-educated among the population that bought into this – bankers, doctors, civil servants, you name it.  Whole families signed up and backed their bags.   In September 1822, the first fifty settlers sailed for Poyais and were very confused when the landed.  There was…nothing there.  No port, not even a dock.  I mean, there were trees and snakes and mosquitos, but no city, no road, no nothing.  The settlers believed they were lost, but they couldn't get a ride to the “right” place because that ship had sailed.  Literally, the ship left them immediately.  So they set up camp.  150 more people, including children, shortly joined them.  They searched for civilization as best they could, but the rainy season descended on them, bringing on clouds of mosquitos, whose tiny bags were packed with yellow fever and malaria.  A few settlers who were saved by a passing ship informed the British Colony of Honduras about the situation. The colony organized a rescue mission, but only a third of the population was still alive and rescued. In the meantime, five more ships set for Poyais had to be stopped by the Honduras government.  They were informed that Poyais did not exist. It was Mickey Mouse, mate, spurious, not genuine.  Twisting the knife counter-clockwise, the King revoked the land grant and told them they were now illegal squatters and had swear allegiance or GTFO.  Dozens were too weak to leave.  In a particularly depressing bit of math, of 250 or so who had set sail for Poyais, with all their hopes and dreams pinned to this mythical land, 180 died.      That's not even the crazy bit.  Of those 70 who barely survived their ordeal, many of them did *not blame MacGregor.  Six of the survivors, including one man who lost two children to the ordeal, signed an affidavit insisting that blame lay not with MacGregor but with Hector Hall, a former army officer who was supposed to be in charge of the settlement.  They declared "[W]e believe that Sir Gregor MacGregor has been worse used by Colonel Hall and his other agents than was ever a man before, and that had they have done their duty by Sir Gregor and by us, things would have turned out very differently at Poyais". MacGregor claimed he's been a victim too, defrauded and embezzled from by his own agents and undermined by merchants in British Honduras because the richness of Poyais threatened their profits   Now I love a Scottish accent, but this must have been one charming melon-farmer.  MacGregor didn't know it, but he had actually been using “the six principles of persuasion.”  These comes from a 1984 book by Robert Cialdini, “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,” which looked at the factors that affect the decisions that people make, especially as pertains to sales, naturally.  At the core of his work is the idea that decision-making is effortful, so individuals use a lot of rules of thumb and decision making shortcuts (heuristics) when deciding what to do, and of course once you know what those things are, you can manipulate them to your advantage.  They are authority (in the sense that they're an authority on the subject), scarcity, reciprocity (i.e. you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours), consistency (I still believe in this idea as much as I always have), social validation (everyone you know is buying one of these), and friendship or liking (picture the smile on a used car salesman).  MacGregor seemed to know these instinctively.   Mcgregor skipped town when the scandal broke, claiming he needed to take his wife to warm, dry Italy for her health, and headed across the channel to France and began the whole thing all over again.  In Paris, he persuaded the Compagnie de la Nouvelle Neustrie, a firm of traders looking to break into the South American market, to seek investors and settlers for Poyais in France.  In a matter of months, he had a new group of settlers and investors ready to go.  Concurrent to all this, he tried to get in good with King Ferdinand VII of Spain, proposing to make Poyais a Spanish protectorate and a base of operations from which Spain could reconquer Guatemala.  Spain, at least, ignored MacGregor.  MacGregor might not have realized that France was more stringent than England in its passport requirements: when the government saw a flood of applications to a country no one had heard of, a commission was set to investigate the matter.  Or maybe he figured he was on a roll and utterly bulletproof.  This time, Mcgregor et al were arrested and tried.  But he was found not guilty on all accounts, mostly because one of his accomplices was hiding in the Netherlands with a ton of incriminating documents.  Once he felt that London had probably forgotten his colossal scam, he headed back…and started another scam.  Smaller this time; I guess he's learning.  But the bonds didn't sell well this time, and what's worse -for everyone- other fraudsters started pulling their own fake paradise scams following his model.  He retired to Edinburgh, then to Venezuela after the death of his wife, where he was granted citizenship and a pension as a retired general.  He never faced any consequences for his actions and when he died in 1845, Gregor MacGregor was buried with full military honors.  So the moral of the story is … crime does pay?  That's a terrible lesson.     Crocker Land   In 1907, Robert Peary was the most famous, and most experienced Arctic explorer in the world, but he had a problem—he hadn't yet managed to become the first to visit the most arctic of arctic places, the North Pole, and his cash reserves were becoming nonexistent. The previous year, he had almost made it—supposedly getting within 175 miles or 280 kilometers—but was turned around by a combination of storms and depleting supplies, but Robert Peary was sure he could get there if he just had another try. He possessed the kind of confidence that only a man with a Lorax level mustache can have. All he needed to make another journey was money. However, the arctic adventure capital market was a bit reluctant to give him more after the previous failures, so, Peary hatched a plan. The key to that plan was a wealthy San Francisco financier named George Crocker, who had previously donated $50,000 to Peary's failed 1906 voyage. This was, of course, a time when 50k bought you more than two buckets of movie theatre popcorn and a calculus textbook. Peary wanted Crocker to help fund his new voyage but, considering the previous trip he financed achieved diddly squat, this could be tough. But what if, and hear me out, the previous voyage wasn't a colossal failure. Peary thought of a way to not only convince Crocker that the previous voyage hadn't been a failure, but also to butter him up a little bit by doing the one thing that rich people love more than anything else—naming things after them. And so, Peary revealed that on his 1906 voyage, though he hadn't made it to the North Pole, he had seen, from a distance, an enormous, previously undiscovered land mass. He wrote that he spotted, “faint white summits,” 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, and that once he got closer, he could make out, “the snow-clad summits of the distant land in the northwest, above the ice horizon.” In honor of George Crocker, the San Francisco financier, Peary named this beautiful, snow-peaked land mass, “Crocker Land.” But then Robert Peary had two problems. The first problem? George Crocker had already given most of his money to boring causes like rebuilding San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906, and so as flattered as he may have been, there wasn't money left for funding Peary's arctic antics. The second problem? The island was totally, 100%, made up. Now normally, this might not be such a big deal. Guy makes up an imaginary island, who cares? Captain James Cook did so three centuries ago and still nobody's called him out, but this fake island ended up mattering a lot. You see, eventually, Robert Peary did manage to secure funding for another voyage, mostly from the National Geographic Society. On April 6, 1909, he finally made it to the North Pole, or at least, he said he did. He had a picture, but this could be any old pile of snow. He returned home proudly proclaiming that he was the first man ever to reach the North Pole, to which a guy named Frederick Cook, another Arctic explorer, replied, “um…I was there, like, a year ago,” but, Cook said that he'd sailed through where this giant land mass called Crocker's Land was supposedly located. If I know anything about boats, it's that they don't work well on land and, since Cook hadn't found a thing except for cold water and walrus farts, someone's lying here. But, because of this, the existence of Crocker Land became crucially important as it would prove who had really gone to the North Pole first. If it did exist, then Frederick Cook must be lying about going to the North Pole. If it didn't exist, Frederick Cook did go to the North Pole, and Robert Peary was the liar. Of course, at that time you couldn't just fire up your handy household satellite to check and so, to settle it, a man named Donald McMillian decided to go on another expedition to find the land. Not only would this prove who was telling the truth, but it would possibly give McMillan the opportunity to be the first to step onto what was considered, “the last great unknown place in the world.” That voyage was, incredibly, a failure. In addition to their ship getting stuck in the ice for three years before they could return home, the only bright spot came when a crew member saw what looked to be the island—a beautiful, snowy-peaked landmass—but it turned out to be a mirage. In light of that fact, some have suggested that Peary didn't lie about the island, but was actually just seeing a mirage, but unfortunately for Peary's reputation, it looks like that's letting him off too easy. Historians looked at Peary's original notes and logs for the date that Crocker's Land was supposedly discovered, and they found that he doesn't mention anything about it. All he says happened that day was that he climbed up some rocks, and then climbed down the rocks. Plus, the early drafts of his book even didn't include anything about it, but then three paragraphs about Crocker Land mysteriously showed up just before the book was published—just when Peary needed to get more money. In other words, Crocker Land was a load of crock. One of Peary's major issues, aside from inventing an island, was that, when he supposedly went to this north pole, his crew did not include a single navigator who could make their own independent observations as to whether or not they were truly at the pole, or just some pile of ice, and so people didn't believe him. In the archives of the American Geographical Society in Milwaukee lies a century-old map with a peculiar secret. Just north of Greenland, the map shows a small, hook-shaped island labeled “Crocker Land” with the words “Seen By Peary, 1906” printed just below.   The Peary in question is Robert Peary, one of the most famous polar explorers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the man who claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole. But what makes this map remarkable is that Crocker Land was all but a phantom. It wasn't “seen by Peary”—as later expeditions would prove, the explorer had invented it out of the thin Arctic air.   By 1906, Peary was the hardened veteran of five expeditions to the Arctic Circle. Desperate to be the first to the North Pole, he left New York in the summer of 1905 in a state-of-the-art ice-breaking vessel, the Roosevelt—named in honor of one of the principal backers of the expedition, President Theodore Roosevelt. The mission to set foot on the top of the world ended in failure, however: Peary said he sledged to within 175 miles of the pole (a claim others would later question), but was forced to turn back by storms and dwindling supplies.   Peary immediately began planning another attempt, but found himself short of cash. He apparently tried to coax funds from one of his previous backers, San Francisco financier George Crocker—who had donated $50,000 to the 1905-'06 mission—by naming a previously undiscovered landmass after him. In his 1907 book Nearest the Pole, Peary claimed that during his 1906 mission he'd spotted “the faint white summits” of previously undiscovered land 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, one of the most northerly parts of Canada. Peary named this newfound island “Crocker Land” in his benefactor's honor, hoping to secure another $50,000 for the next expedition.   His efforts were for naught: Crocker diverted much of his resources to helping San Francisco rebuild after the 1906 earthquake, with little apparently free for funding Arctic exploration. But Peary did make another attempt at the North Pole after securing backing from the National Geographic Society, and on April 6, 1909, he stood on the roof of the planet—at least by his own account. “The Pole at last!!!" the explorer wrote in his journal. "The prize of 3 centuries, my dream and ambition for 23 years. Mine at last."   Peary wouldn't celebrate his achievement for long, though: When the explorer returned home, he discovered that Frederick Cook—who had served under Peary on his 1891 North Greenland expedition—was claiming he'd been the first to reach the pole a full year earlier. For a time, a debate over the two men's claims raged—and Crocker Land became part of the fight. Cook claimed that on his way to the North Pole he'd traveled to the area where the island was supposed to be, but had seen nothing there. Crocker Land, he said, didn't exist.   Peary's supporters began to counter-attack, and one of his assistants on the 1909 trip, Donald MacMillan, announced that he would lead an expedition to prove the existence of Crocker Land, vindicating Peary and forever ruining the reputation of Cook.   There was also, of course, the glory of being the first to set foot on the previously unexplored island. Historian David Welky, author of A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier, recently explained to National Geographic that with both poles conquered, Crocker Land was “the last great unknown place in the world.” American Geographical Society Library. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. After receiving backing from the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Illinois, and the American Geographical Society, the MacMillan expedition departed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in July 1913. MacMillan and his team took provisions, dogs, a cook, “a moving picture machine,” and wireless equipment, with the grand plan of making a radio broadcast live to the United States from the island.   But almost immediately, the expedition was met with misfortune: MacMillan's ship, the Diana, was wrecked on the voyage to Greenland by her allegedly drunken captain, so MacMillan transferred to another ship, the Erik, to continue his journey. By early 1914, with the seas frozen, MacMillan set out to attempt a 1200-mile long sled journey from Etah, Greenland, through one of the most inhospitable and harshest landscapes on Earth, in search of Peary's phantom island.   Though initially inspired by their mission to find Crocker Land, MacMillan's team grew disheartened as they sledged through the Arctic landscape without finding it. “You can imagine how earnestly we scanned every foot of that horizon—not a thing in sight,” MacMillan wrote in his 1918 book, Four Years In The White North.   But a discovery one April day by Fitzhugh Green, a 25-year-old ensign in the US Navy, gave them hope. As MacMillan later recounted, Green was “no sooner out of the igloo than he came running back, calling in through the door, ‘We have it!' Following Green, we ran to the top of the highest mound. There could be no doubt about it. Great heavens! What a land! Hills, valleys, snow-capped peaks extending through at least one hundred and twenty degrees of the horizon.”   But visions of the fame brought by being the first to step foot on Crocker Land quickly evaporated. “I turned to Pee-a-wah-to,” wrote MacMillan of his Inuit guide (also referred to by some explorers as Piugaattog). “After critically examining the supposed landfall for a few minutes, he astounded me by replying that he thought it was a ‘poo-jok' (mist).”   Indeed, MacMillan recorded that “the landscape gradually changed its appearance and varied in extent with the swinging around of the Sun; finally at night it disappeared altogether.” For five more days, the explorers pressed on, until it became clear that what Green had seen was a mirage, a polar fata morgana. Named for the sorceress Morgana le Fay in the legends of King Arthur, these powerful illusions are produced when light bends as it passes through the freezing air, leading to mysterious images of apparent mountains, islands, and sometimes even floating ships.   Fata morganas are a common occurrence in polar regions, but would a man like Peary have been fooled? “As we drank our hot tea and gnawed the pemmican, we did a good deal of thinking,” MacMillan wrote. “Could Peary with all his experience have been mistaken? Was this mirage which had deceived us the very thing which had deceived him eight years before? If he did see Crocker Land, then it was considerably more than 120 miles away, for we were now at least 100 miles from shore, with nothing in sight.”   MacMillan's mission was forced to accept the unthinkable and turn back. “My dreams of the last four years were merely dreams; my hopes had ended in bitter disappointment,” MacMillan wrote. But the despair at realizing that Crocker Land didn't exist was merely the beginning of the ordeal.   MacMillan sent Fitzhugh Green and the Inuit guide Piugaattog west to explore a possible route back to their base camp in Etah. The two became trapped in the ice, and one of their dog teams died. Fighting over the remaining dogs, Green—with alarming lack of remorse—explained in his diary what happened next: “I shot once in the air ... I then killed [Piugaattog] with a shot through the shoulder and another through the head.” Green returned to the main party and confessed to MacMillan. Rather than reveal the murder, the expedition leader told the Inuit members of the mission that Piugaattog had perished in the blizzard.   Several members of the MacMillan mission would remain trapped in the ice for another three years, victims of the Arctic weather. Two attempts by the American Museum of Natural History to rescue them met with failure, and it wasn't until 1917 that MacMillan and his party were finally saved by the steamer Neptune, captained by seasoned Arctic sailor Robert Bartlett.   While stranded in the ice, the men put their time to good use; they studied glaciers, astronomy, the tides, Inuit culture, and anything else that attracted their curiosity. They eventually returned with over 5000 photographs, thousands of specimens, and some of the earliest film taken of the Arctic (much of which can be seen today in the repositories of the American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee).   It's unclear whether MacMillan ever confronted Peary about Crocker Land—about what exactly the explorer had seen in 1906, and perhaps what his motives were. When MacMillan's news about not having found Crocker Land reached the United States, Peary defended himself to the press by noting how difficult spotting land in the Arctic could be, telling reporters, “Seen from a distance ... an iceberg with earth and stones may be taken for a rock, a cliff-walled valley filled with fog for a fjord, and the dense low clouds above a patch of open water for land.” (He maintained, however, that "physical indications and theory" still pointed to land somewhere in the area.) Yet later researchers have noted that Peary's notes from his 1905-'06 expedition don't mention Crocker Land at all. As Welky told National Geographic, “He talks about a hunting trip that day, climbing the hills to get this view, but says absolutely nothing about seeing Crocker Land. Several crewmembers also kept diaries, and according to those he never mentioned anything about seeing a new continent.”   There's no mention of Crocker Land in early drafts of Nearest the Pole, either—it's only mentioned in the final manuscript. That suggests Peary had a deliberate reason for the the inclusion of the island.   Crocker, meanwhile, wouldn't live to see if he was immortalized by this mysterious new land mass: He died in December 1909 of stomach cancer, a year after Peary had set out in the Roosevelt again in search of the Pole, and before MacMillan's expedition.   Any remnants of the legend of Crocker Land were put to bed in 1938, when Isaac Schlossbach flew over where the mysterious island was supposed to be, looked down from his cockpit, and saw nothing. Bradley Land was the name Frederick Cook gave to a mass of land which he claimed to have seen between (84°20′N 102°0′W) and (85°11′N 102°0′W) during a 1909 expedition. He described it as two masses of land with a break, a strait, or an indentation between.[1] The land was named for John R. Bradley, who had sponsored Cook's expedition.   Cook published two photographs of the land and described it thus: "The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice."[2]   It is now known there is no land at that location and Cook's observations were based on either a misidentification of sea ice or an outright fabrication. Cook's Inuit companions reported that the photographs were actually taken near the coast of Axel Heiberg Island.[   Cook described two islands lying at about 85 degrees North, which he named Bradley Land.  These islands, like Peary's “Crocker Land,” do not exist, yet Cook's partisans have tried to resuscitate Cook's credibility by linking “Bradley Land” to a discovery made in the Arctic only since Dr. Cook's death.      After World War II, aerial reconnaissance revealed a number of large tabular bergs drifting slowly clockwise in the arctic basin north of Ellesmere Island. Several arctic researchers and scientists have suggested these so-called ice islands—breakaway pieces of its ancient ice shelf—are probably what Cook mistook for “Bradley Land,” and Cook's advocates have repeated these statements to support the doctor's claim.       Cook gave this description of “Bradley Land”: “The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice.”      Ice islands are no more than 100 to 200 feet thick, total. They are nearly flat with only rolling undulations and rise only about 25 feet above sea level. Cook's “Bradley Land” therefore does not remotely resemble an ice island, or even an ice island magnified by mirage. And Cook published two pictures of the high, mountainous land he called “Bradley Land.”        Cook's Inuit companions are reported to have said these pictures were of two small islands off the northwest coast of Axel Heiberg Island; others believe they are of the coast of Heiberg Island itself, though the pictures have never been duplicated.      Ren Bay  has been suggested as the site.  Ellesmere trekker Jerry Kobalenko reports he could not match the picture exactly to that site, but Cook might have taken it at a time when fog obscured prominent landmarks, as he did in Alaska, making it impossible to duplicate now.  In each picture the photographer is standing on a point above the flat ice.  Kobalenko's was taken off a ten-foot hillock.   Sources: https://www.jetsetter.com/magazine/islands-to-visit-before-they-disappear/ Brigadoon https://www.history.com/news/the-con-man-who-invented-his-own-country https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sandy-island-doesnt-exist_n_2184535 https://interestingengineering.com/10-islands-on-maps-that-never-actually-existed https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8350278/mysterious-island-that-didnt-exist-four-years-ago-is-now-teeming-with-life-sea-volcano/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audaciou s-scam https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/notable-collections/profiles/crocker-land.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/crocker-land-peary-arctic-continent https://research.bowdoin.edu/crocker-land-expedition/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_KQOeh-Co http://humbug.polarhist.com/bland.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/gregor-macgregor-prince-poyais   There are Islands that have disappeared and not in the global warming, vanishing coastline type of way. These Islands are called Phantom Islands. To be considered a Phantom Island, a piece of land must have been agreed to exist at one point before eventually being undiscovered or corrected. Basically, academics and cartographers thought an island was real and then eventually found out it wasn't. For example, Atlantis would not be considered a Phantom Island because it was always considered a legend. But perhaps the best example of a Phantom Island is Burmeja. Bermeja first appeared on maps in the year 1539, and for nearly 400 years, it was accepted as a real island located in the Gulf of Mexico. But in the 2000s, the United States and Mexico were in a dispute over an oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. Basically, Burmeja marked the outermost limit of Mexico's economic territory. The oil field would have been within that border marked by Burmeja, thus making it Mexico's property. But when the Mexican government set a team to verify the island's position, it was gone. The team had the exact coordinates for the island, and Bermeja had appeared on maps for 400 years, but it just wasn't there. The team searched all over the Gulf of Mexico and concluded that Bermeja simply no longer existed. There are a few theories about how Bermer disappeared. One is that it vanished into the ocean as a result of natural geographic shifts. This has happened elsewhere in the world, so it's entirely plausible. There's also a theory that Birmingham was intentionally destroyed by the United States so they could gain access to the oil field. It's a bold strategy, and you would think someone would have noticed an entire island being blown up. But America has done worse things in the name of oil. Some people say early Mexican officials may have added it to the map in an effort to just expand their borders. This, again, would be a pretty bold strategy, but perhaps an effective one in the 15th century. The most likely explanation is that Burmeja never existed. It was a mistake by some cartographer in the 1500s, and everyone just went with it. Early cartographers were also known to add fake Islands to their maps to prevent plagiarism. These fake Islands would tip them off if their map was ever copied. But Burmeja has appeared in various ships, logs, and inventories, some of which were official documents from the Mexican government. Ultimately, Burmette was never found, and no one really knows why. But Bermuda has not been the only Phantom Island. The Baja Peninsula was believed to be the island of California for years before it was corrected. A fictitious place called Sandy Island appeared on maps for over a century near Australia. It was even on Google maps. Today, scientists think early explorers just saw a large piece of pumice stone floating in the ocean. Arctic Explorer Robert E. Pierre made up the Island Crocker land in an effort to scam some money from one of his investors. There have been dozens more of these Phantom Islands over the years with each having been undiscovered for different reasons. Today, though, thanks to satellite imagery, Phantom Islands are probably a thing of the past you. Con artists have long recognised that persuasion must appeal to two very particular aspects of human motivation – the drive that will get people to do something, and the inertia that prevents them from wanting to do it. In 2003, two social psychologists, Eric Knowles at the University of Arkansas and Jay Linn at Widener University, formalised this idea by naming two types of persuasive tactics. The first, alpha, was far more frequent: increasing the appeal of something. The second, omega, decreased the resistance surrounding something. In the one, you do what you can to make your proposition, whatever it may be, more attractive. You rev up the backstory – why this is such a wonderful opportunity, why you are the perfect person to do it, how much everyone will gain, and the like. In the other, you make a request or offer seem so easy as to be a no-brainer – why wouldn't I do this? What do I have to lose? Psychologists call it the ‘approach-avoidance' model of persuasion They called the juxtaposition the approach-avoidance model of persuasion: you can convince me of something by making me want to approach it and decreasing any reasons I might have to avoid it. According to Columbia University psychologist Tory Higgins, people are usually more likely to be swayed by one or other of the two motivational lines: some people are promotion-focused (they think of possible positive gains), and some, prevention-focused (they focus on losses and avoiding mistakes). An approach that unites the alpha with the omega appeals to both mindsets, however, giving it universal appeal – and it is easy to see how MacGregor's proposition offered this potent combination.  

Chef James Rigato reports back from his trip to the Valle de Guadalupe in the Baja Peninsula. He talks about regional differences in tacos, and how he approaches a food trip.

There is so much history in offroad racing!  From the days of guys getting a printed map and driving 1000 miles down the BAJA Peninsula to now driving with GPS at over 100 miles per hour!  The history of Offroad show was pretty amazing and it's so cool to see what the teams used back in the day. Even more impressive the teams that are winners!!! Thanks to @bfgoodrichtires for your support and heritage in the Offroad world!!!Check out the show, link in bio.Thanks to @bobbower for the gift! Thanks to all the guests tonight! @teamlerner @racersonly @jeff_furrier @upr_offroadracing @therickyjohnsonSupport the show (http://www.thedirtlifeshow.com)

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme is a true LEGEND of racing. Starting in the 60s, over 32 seasons, he was one of the most dominant drag racers ever. Four NHRA championships, the first funny car driver to break 250 mph, and along with Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, he brought drag racing into the mainstream with their own Hot Wheels cars!! He retired in 1994…but you don't  just go from burning up the quarter mile to just sittin' around…which is why, at age 80, The Snake is heading to Baja to take on the Baja Peninsula!! We talked to the man, the legend this morning…and he's every bit as bad ass as you could hope!! PLUS… When you grow up with the last name Van Halen, in the shadow of your legendary father, a lot can be expected of you. And, as such , you can flame out, or rise to the occasion. Which, in the case of Wolfgang Van Halen, he has more that risen to the occasion with his debut  solo album/band “Mammoth WVH”!! He performed every instrument on the album, it's received rave reviews from critics, and even under the watchful eyes of critics and the public, he has walked his own path as his own man, with his own sound and vision. And for us, growing up as Van Halen fans, and as fans of his mother Valerie Bertinelli, we feel like we've know him all of his life…but today was the first time we met him, and we found him to be an amazingly  well adjusted guy who knows exactly where he's going!

The Baja Peninsula is famed for it's 50+ year history of the Baja 1000, 500 and 250. Not a house hold name to most, but, the legends of Baja are in a league of their own; Espo is one of those legends. There is a mystique south of the border that very few get to experience, but, for those lucky enough to experience it…they get it. Shane brings us back to where it all started and explains how he got started on the path to becoming one of the best there is. Growing up like any kid in the 80's he was not groomed for motocross, he played normal sports and didn't get serious about it until he was forced to turn pro. Like most moto kids, or sports kids in general, there is a support system that is needed to be able to push through. We get a quick glance into Shane's parents and how his dad gave him the opportunity to make the choice on what he wanted to do; however, once that choice was made it was all or nothing. Unlike today, there were opportunities to jump around from local races and make a pretty good living, and Shane was content with that. He has been called a 70 percenter, and he doesn't contest it. Knowing he has the talent to stack #1 plates, he is content with the grind as giving 100% would have taken him on a completely different path. Knowing Shane, and seeing first hand his ability, his 70% most riders 150%…so it makes sense that he's still able to do what he done while not giving it everything. Shane is a humble workhorse and is willing to throw his leg over a bike to help teams win. He may not be the rider of record, but, his record speaks for itself. One of my favorite is him finishing the Baja 1000 in first and second place as he rode nearly 700 miles for two different teams…insane! His talent provided him the opportunity to race the ultimate off-road race, the Dakar Rally where he held his own and finished in the top 20. While this is respectable in any case, this is also after a 2 hour penalty on day 1. While most train for years to be able to race Dakar Mr. 70% was drinking beers with us on New Years eve, hadn't asked for the time off from his day job, and wasn't even sure he was going to board the plane on Jan 2. To finish Dakar is respectable, to finish top 20 is impressive…to do it with no training tells you everything you need to know about this guy. Like always there was much we didn't talk about so next time we'll dig a little deeper... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drinkinthinkin/message

MT Solomons is a link to the early days of deep freediving before the modern competition era, along with her partner at the time Aharon Solomons they were there in the time of Pipin and Audrey, Umberto Pelizzari and Davide Carrera, a young Martin Stepanek was around, Kirk Crack, Tanya Streeter, a whole host of freediving royalty, a time when things were simpler in the world and also in freediving, when freediving was still very exploratory and deep diving logistics and training were being figured out as they went along.You'll also hear about the shared history I discovered I had with MT and Aharon with a place called Agios Pavlos in southern Crete in Greece, which blew my mind, and then we'll move on to talk about MT's life in Baja, Mexico, where she is running unique freediving training courses and we talk about her experiences with plant medicines and the ultimate potential of the deep diver outside of just training and performances.In this episode we discuss:MT was back in the UK for the holiday season when we spoke.About the Huniquin people, Ayahuasca ceremonies.How MT discovered freediving.Our shared history of Crete, Agios Pavlos, Triopetra, Derek Ireland and shout out to Helen and Phil at Yoga Rocks.https://www.yogaholidaysgreece.comHow Aharon Solomons introduced her to freediving in Crete.Diving with a yellow submarine!The days of early deep diving with Pipin Ferreras, Martin Stepanek,Umberto Pelizzari, Davide Carrera and Tanya Streeter.How MT got started in Mexico.The ecology and weather of the Baja Peninsula and the Sea of Cortez.How diving works in MT's area and the experience on offer.MT's relationship with plant medicine and how that experience ties in to the experience of freediving.The deeper experience of freediving and the possibilities of deep human diving.DESERT ISLAND QUESTIONS - PATREON EXCLUSIVE

20 years at one company is a big milestone for anyone, but for Julie Byrd it's been a labor of love and legacy. Julie recalls the early days of selling newspaper ads to CaboVillas.com founder, Don Hirschaut, which led to a full time position with the company and the beginning of Julie's inspiring career under his mentorship. When Don tragically passed away in 2019, he left behind a passion for excellence and innovation that remains at the heart of the business and can be easily seen in the efforts of Julie and her team to create dream vacations for their guests. Through collaborative partnerships with Los Cabos tourism boards, local tours & activities providers, restaurants and attractions, CaboVillas.com has found the secret sauce to delivering the ultimate, personalized guest experience for families, groups and couples visiting the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Watch episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/k2dQgedqL04CONTACT ALEX & ANNIEAlexandAnniePodcast.comLinkedIn | Facebook | InstagramAlex Husner - LinkedinAnnie Holcombe - LinkedinPodcast Sponsored by Condo-World and Lexicon Travel

Join authors Rachel Kushner and Wallace Shawn for a conversation on Kushner's latest, The Hard Crowd. Rachel Kushner's latest collection, The Hard Crowd, addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform the author's fiction. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. Wallace Shawn will join Kushner for a conversation on The Hard Crowd, our current political situation, and what it means for art to engage with our world. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Kushner's latest book, The Hard Crowd, gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years. Kushner is also the author of The Mars Room, and The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Paris Review. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2016 Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. More at http://www.rachelkushner.com. Wallace Shawn is an Obie Award–winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor. His plays The Designated Mourner and Marie and Bruce have been produced as films, as has his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Master Builder. He is co-author of the movie "My Dinner with André" and the author of the plays The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors, as well as the nonfiction books Essays (featuring the essay “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”) and Night Thoughts (Haymarket Books). His latest play, Evening at the Talk House, premiered at the Socialism conference in Chicago and was performed at The National Theatre in London and The New Group in New York. His plays The Designated Mourner and Grasses of a Thousand Colors will soon be available as multipart podcasts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/GjkhBO97Bzw Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

►Check out our fanlink.to/Y0UTUBE for your audiovisual experience◄ Coming up on Schirmchendrink is a healthy drink that has already been consumed for thousands of years: Kombucha! And it also happens to be a favorite drink of our next guest on the show, GIAX. Other than he does vinyl sets and plays few shows only, nothing is known about the selector based in Todos Santos, a small surf town in Mexico's Baja Peninsula. GIAX posted some mixes on SoundCloud and they made their way to the Schirmchendrink headquarters, where they are played on a regular base. His style is more minimalistic than our usual lineup, works well for dancing as well as for listening at home. GIAX' exclusive mix for Schirmchendrink is a journey with a variety of genres of what he likes to play and listen. And we'd like to order a second round, please!! Cheers The bartenders GIAX @clandestineartists Schirmchendrink @schirmchendrink www.facebook.com/schirmchendrink www.instagram.com/schirmchendrink

Fletcher Wheaton had been investing in real estate in the New Orleans area since 2008 until one weekend trip pushed him to change course and jump cross-country. Now, he's investing in the Baja Peninsula in Mexico, specializing in pre-construction, vacation homes, and investment rental properties. He stopped by in our podcast to share his journey from the United States to Mexico, his jump from oil and gas to real estate, and the strategies that helped him succeed in this industry. Listen to Fletcher and learn ways to invest outside the United States!  [00:01 – 04:45] Opening Segment Let's get to know Fletcher Wheaton He talks about this life-changing weekend getaway [04:46 – 15:05] The Truth About Investing in Real Estate Why he jumped from the oil & gas industry to real estate  What real estate investors should know about risk levels  Are you looking for a property in Mexico? Listen to Fletcher's insights  [15:06 – 25:03] The Reality of Investing Outside the United States How old are the properties that Fletcher is talking about?  Here's another reason to fall in love with Los Cabos Fletcher talks about the first step in investing outside the United States [25:04 – 30:50] Boosting Your Online Presence With Videos  Fletcher shares his experience shooting drone videos of his properties  He talks about the power of video in boosting your online presence  The challenges of outsourcing video production  [30:51 – 37:43] The Contrarian 3-Pack What would you say is the most contrarian investment you've made?  Drifter hotel in New Orleans What's your favorite activity to do with your friends and family outside of work? Outdoor activities What offers you the most fulfillment in life? Providing for his family through something he enjoys the most Connect with Fletcher. Links available below. Tweetable Quotes: “As long as you're staying consistent and you have processes...I think that's a good thing." –  Fletcher Wheaton “Being able to provide for my family by doing something that I really enjoy...that means a lot to me." –  Fletcher Wheaton Resources mentioned https://www.zillow.com/ (Zillow) You can email fletcher@bajasmart.com to connect with Fletcher or follow him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/fletcherwheaton/ (LinkedIn) and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtgoukcsVZ9pOUBnOWsC5Vg (YouTube). Check out his https://cabokey.com/ (website) to learn more about his work in Mexico!  LEAVE A REVIEW + help the podcast grow by sharing it with your friends, family, or someone in need. Follow me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/joblanto/ (LinkedIn) or visit our http://contrariancashflow.com/ (website) to know more.  Think Different. Earn Different. Live Fulfilled.

Javier Alejandro Inzunza and Leopoldo (Polo) Sanmiguel are passionate about sharing the stark beauty of Baja with the world. The Tijuana-based duo created the beautiful travel site Baja Adventures, "To inspire people to live in a more sustainable way by adventuring into The Baja Peninsula and rediscovering the unique bond between themselves and nature." On a recent trip to San Diego, I reached out to Javier -we had been trying to get together for months and hadn't been able to make it work. I suggested that I drive down for tacos. Polo and Javi changed their schedules to make time for me, and I booked a one-day policy on Baja Bound Insurance. Less than five minutes later, I was on my way to meet them in Tijuana. We met at Taconazo, a fantastic local taqueria. I ordered an Al Pastor taco and a carne asada taco. The Al Pastor was sublime, cut right off the giant trompo, and served with a fat slice of pineapple. The carne asada came with cheese and guacamole and was divine! Stuffed from our lunch, we adjourned to Javier's nearby loft to continue the conversation over a few cold beers. Follow Baja Adventures on Instagram Follow Baja Adventures on Facebook

Full Text of ReadingsThursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 380All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint Junipero SerraIn 1776, when the American Revolution was beginning in the east, another part of the future United States was being born in California. That year a gray-robed Franciscan founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, now famous for its annually returning swallows. San Juan was the seventh of nine missions established under the direction of this indomitable Spaniard. Born on Spain's island of Mallorca, Serra entered the Franciscan Order taking the name of Saint Francis' childlike companion, Brother Juniper. Until he was 35, he spent most of his time in the classroom—first as a student of theology and then as a professor. He also became famous for his preaching. Suddenly he gave it all up and followed the yearning that had begun years before when he heard about the missionary work of Saint Francis Solano in South America. Junipero's desire was to convert native peoples in the New World. Arriving by ship at Vera Cruz, Mexico, he and a companion walked the 250 miles to Mexico City. On the way Junipero's left leg became infected by an insect bite and would remain a cross—sometimes life-threatening—for the rest of his life. For 18 years, he worked in central Mexico and in the Baja Peninsula. He became president of the missions there. Enter politics: the threat of a Russian invasion south from Alaska. Charles III of Spain ordered an expedition to beat Russia to the territory. So the last two conquistadors—one military, one spiritual—began their quest. José de Galvez persuaded Junipero to set out with him for present-day Monterey, California. The first mission founded after the 900-mile journey north was San Diego in 1769. That year a shortage of food almost canceled the expedition. Vowing to stay with the local people, Junipero and another friar began a novena in preparation for St. Joseph's day, March 19, the scheduled day of departure. On that day, the relief ship arrived. Other missions followed: Monterey/Carmel (1770); San Antonio and San Gabriel (1771); San Luís Obispo (1772); San Francisco and San Juan Capistrano (1776); Santa Clara (1777); San Buenaventura (1782). Twelve more were founded after Serra's death. Junipero made the long trip to Mexico City to settle great differences with the military commander. He arrived at the point of death. The outcome was substantially what Junipero sought: the famous “Regulation” protecting the Indians and the missions. It was the basis for the first significant legislation in California, a “Bill of Rights” for Native Americans. Because the Native Americans were living a nonhuman life from the Spanish point of view, the friars were made their legal guardians. The Native Americans were kept at the mission after baptism lest they be corrupted in their former haunts—a move that has brought cries of “injustice” from some moderns. Junipero's missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples. Through it all his unquenchable zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight till dawn. He baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000. His travels would have circled the globe. He brought the Native Americans not only the gift of faith but also a decent standard of living. He won their love, as witnessed especially by their grief at his death. He is buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. Pope Francis canonized him in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 2015. Reflection The word that best describes Junipero is zeal. It was a spirit that came from his deep prayer and dauntless will. “Always forward, never back” was his motto. His work bore fruit for 50 years after his death as the rest of the missions were founded in a kind of Christian communal living by the Indians. When both Mexican and American greed caused the secularization of the missions, the Chumash people went back to what they had been—God again writing straight with crooked lines. Saint Junipero Serra is the Patron Saint of: California Missions Click here for more on Saint Junipero Serra! Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media

In the mid-1800s, the United States was a young nation awash with mercenaries, adventurers, and entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of the country's ever-expanding boundaries. Into this chaotic atmosphere stepped a young lawyer and newspaper editor from Tennessee named William Walker, who wrapped his personal ambitions in the cloak of American expansionism and the credo of “Manifest Destiny.”Hoping to establish his own republic, Walker became a “filibuster,” a 19th century term for American mercenaries who attempted to colonize foreign lands without government authorization. He set his sights on a remote corner of Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula. But Walker's ragtag band of American mercenaries quickly ran afoul of the Mexican authorities. Outgunned, and cut off from reinforcements, they retreated to the U.S. border, where federal soldiers stood waiting to arrest Walker for his unsanctioned invasion of a sovereign nation.This is a sneak preview of a Wondery+ exclusive season of American History Tellers. To listen to the entire season, join Wondery+ in the Wondery app now. https://wondery.app.link/americanhistorytellers.Privacy Policy and California Privacy Notice.

In Episode 60, Chris answers a listener question about The Royal Yacht Britannia, we have a great round up of the latest cruise news from around the world and finish the show with Emma from Emma Cruises reflection on the first UK Cruise onboard MSC VirtuosaThis podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. It is just like shouting your mate a coffee, and we consider our listeners close mates.  https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXThe Royal Yacht Britannia - Credit Marc MillarMARITIME HISTORY & LISTENER QUESTIONFurther information on The Royal Yacht Britannia & Fingal (Hotel Ship): https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/CRUISE NEWS Cunard Announces New Itineraries across FleetCunard resumes operations from July 19, 2021 as Queen Elizabeth welcomes guests on board for a series of UK voyages from Southampton, England; and beginning October 13, 2021, sailing internationally with new voyages including to the Iberian coast and the Canary Islands. Queen Elizabeth will then leave the UK in mid-February to resume her previously scheduled season in Japan from April 13, 2022.Queen Mary 2 will resume sailing with a Transatlantic Crossing on November 14, 2021 as per her existing schedule, and will now sail on a series of voyages around the Caribbean between January and April 2022, with embarkation options from Southampton, New York and Hamburg before resuming her existing published schedule on April 24, 2022.Queen Victoria will embark on three new voyages departing from Southampton from April 22, 2022 which includes Western Europe, the Baltics and the Iberian Coast before resuming her existing published schedule on May 20, 2022.Due to the ongoing complexities of navigating global travel, Cunard has today announced that they will be cancelling the following voyages:Queen Elizabeth's sailings from the UK to Australia and her homeport season in Australia from October 18, 2021 up to and including March 9, 2022.World Voyages on Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria in 2022 are now cancelled.Queen Victoria's sailings from September 10, 2021 up to and including April 29, 2022 are now cancelled.However, five of Queen Victoria's sailings will transfer onto identical voyages on sister ship Queen Elizabeth. These voyages are V126, V128, V129, V130 and V201.A-ROSA sets sail againRiver cruise line celebrates successful first departure of 2021A-ROSA successfully welcomed guest back onto its cruises on the river Douro. After an enjoyable first night on board in Porto, this morning, A-ROSA ALVA and her guests departed on a seven-day cruise through the Douro Valley to the Spanish border and back.Cruises on the Danube will resume in two days' time on 19 June, on board A-ROSA DONNA, calling at three European capital cities – Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava. By the end of this month cruises on the Rhine will be back in operation and by the middle of the summer, A-ROSA plans to have three quarters of its fleet operating along the Rhine, Main, Moselle, Danube, Douro and Rhone rivers.Having sailed successfully for over five months in 2020, A-ROSA used the winter months to further fine tune its sophisticated health and hygiene protocols. 2021 will see the return of A-ROSA's popular gourmet buffets, plus as in 2020, the SPA-ROSA with its sauna, treatments room and gym, the pool/whirlpool and a range of excursions will be available, all in compliance with strict hygiene measures.An Icon Is Born As Royal Caribbean Starts Construction On Revolutionary ShipAn iconic day for the cruise industry's next iconic ship took place on Monday, June 14 when Royal Caribbean International marked the start of construction on its first Icon Class ship. To celebrate the milestone, the world's largest cruise line held a steel-cutting ceremony at Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku, where the revolutionary ship's name was revealed as Icon of the Seas.Debuting in fall 2023, Icon will be the cruise line's first of three ships to be powered by LNG (liquefied natural gas). LNG and the state-of-the-art ship's additional environmentally friendly applications, such as shore power connection, will boost energy efficiencies and reduce carbon footprint. More details about Icon's advanced environmental technologies will be revealed at a future date.Viking ex Malta Viking announced new details about its upcoming Welcome Back voyages in the Mediterranean that launch in July 2021. Over the course of summer and early fall, Viking will homeport three sister ships—the Viking Star®, the Viking Sea® and the company's newest ship, the Viking Venus®—for three different 11-day itineraries that explore the Mediterranean, roundtrip from the Maltese capital city of Valletta, a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site. Viking also announced today that it has partnered with Lufthansa to offer non-stop flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Malta, exclusively for Viking guests.Mediterranean Voyages Beginning in July 2021Malta & Adriatic Jewels (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Croatia, Montenegro & Malta) – Discover Malta's millennia of history and visit ancient UNESCO sites. Explore Croatia's captivating coastline and some of the great iconic cities of antiquity. Stroll the majestic city walls of Dubrovnik and visit Diocletian's Palace. Or immerse yourself in nature and the great outdoors during a visit to Krka National Park. Join us for a fascinating journey as you witness rolling landscapes and ancient architectural treasures along Adriatic shores. Multiple sailing dates July through October 2021.Malta & the Western Mediterranean (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Italy, Spain & Malta) – Traverse the historic and heritage-rich waters of the Western Mediterranean during a 10-night roundtrip voyage from Valletta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You will discover the magnificent Amalfi Coast from elegant Naples, gateway to Pompeii, and visit Messina, Sicily's cultural crossroad. See the storied sites of ancient Rome and immerse in Tuscan Florence and Catalonian Barcelona's art and architecture during your unforgettable journey. Multiple sailing dates in September and October 2021.Malta & Greek Isles Discovery (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Greece & Malta) – Immerse in the ancient world as you discover the early empires of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Visit historic UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as the Maltese capital of Valletta and Rhodes' Palace of the Grand Masters. Enjoy dramatic views of the Parthenon in Athens, uncover the mysteries of the Minoans on Crete and admire the white facades and azure domes of the clifftop villages of Santorini during this enchanting voyage through the centuries. Multiple sailing dates July through September 2021.Viking opens up Europe to American cruisers Viking today welcomed Americans back to a reopened Europe. The 27 European Union countries reached an agreement to again allow travellers from the United States in a vote earlier today—a long-expected move that complements the CDC's recent announcement that it has eased travel recommendations for 110 countries and territories. As part of the new recommendations, the CDC has specifically ranked Iceland and Malta—two key destinations for Viking's Welcome Back voyages, which are offered exclusively for vaccinated guests – as “Level 1” or the lowest for risk of COVID-19.Viking successfully restarted operations in May and has been sailing in the United Kingdom with British guests since May 22. Nearly 100 percent of guests on these sailings provided exceptionally high ratings. Earlier this week, on June 15, the company welcomed its first American guests back on board in Bermuda for the first of eight sailings of Bermuda Escape. Over the next month, Viking will launch Welcome Back sailings around Iceland and in the Mediterranean – and will restart its European river operations with select itineraries in Portugal, France and along the Rhine.Crystal Expedition Cruises Announces 2023-2024 Deployment for Luxury Expedition Yacht Crystal EndeavorCrystal Expedition Cruises today announced the full roster of 2023 voyages as well as two early January 2024 itineraries for its luxury expedition yacht Crystal Endeavor.  The first ever “Made in Germany” Polar Class Six (PC6), all-suite, all-verandah ship will feature 27 world-spanning itineraries, taking guests on adventurous journeys to new and remote corners of the globe in bespoke luxury and comfort on the line's state-of-the-art vessel.Highlights include polar expeditions, remote island explorations, immersive voyages to Japan, Russia's Northeast Passage, cruising into the heart of Seville, and moreThoughtfully crafted itineraries range from 10 to 28 nights and will offer intrepid travellers a diverse range of adventures including expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic; South America and offshore islands; Cape Verde and the Canary Islands; the Mediterranean and Western Europe; the British and Scottish Isles; Iceland and the Faroe Islands; Norway, the North Cape and Svalbard; the Russian Arctic and the Northeast Passage; Japan and the Inland Sea; the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago; and Australia including New Year's Eve in Sydney.See Cruise News Post for full list of voyages: https://bit.ly/3vGlbdtPhilippines, Borneo & Indonesian Quest (Remote Expedition) – 16-night, November 21 – December 7, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan to Bali, IndonesiaExpedition to Bali, the Raja Ampat & Queensland (Remote Expedition) – 16-nights, December 7 – December 23, 2023, Bali, Indonesia to Cairns, AustraliaHoliday Expedition: Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania (Destination Exploration) – 14-night, December 23, 2023 – January 6, 2024, Cairns, Australia to Hobart, AustraliaDisney Cruise Line Offers More Holiday Cheer Than Ever Before in Fall 2022The magic of the holidays returns to Disney Cruise Line in the fall of 2022 with Halloween on the High Seas and Very Merrytime Cruises across the fleet, including the first fall season on the all-new Disney Wish. With cruises departing from Florida, New York, Texas and California, guests will have many opportunities to experience holidays at sea with Disney Cruise Line.“With five ships setting sail in fall 2022 from different homeports around the country, we are excited to offer more ways than ever before for families to make special memories with Disney Cruise Line,” said Thomas Mazloum, president of Disney Cruise Line.Halloween on the High Seas returns to Disney Cruise Line in mid-September through October 2022. On select sailings across the fleet, guests can dress up and join Disney characters in their Halloween costumes at Mickey's Mouse-querade Party; enjoy themed food, beverages and crafts; and immerse themselves in a ghostly ship takeover with elaborate decor and a magical Pumpkin Tree.From early November through December, the Disney Cruise Line fleet is decked from bow-to-stern with holiday cheer and entertainment during Very Merrytime Cruises. Holiday magic is unwrapped for the whole family with festive holiday decor, favorite characters in their finest holiday attire and a special visit from none other than Santa Claus.Bookings open to the public June 24, 2021Tropical Escapes from FloridaIn fall 2022, the Disney Wish and Disney Fantasy will embark on guest-favourite itineraries out of Port Canaveral, Florida, while the Disney Dream continues to sail from Miami.The Disney Wish will continue its inaugural season with its first-ever fall and holiday sailings, offering a series of three- and four-night voyages to the Bahamas, while the Disney Fantasy will offer six-, seven- and eight-night vacations to the eastern and western Caribbean.The Disney Dream will take guests on four- and five-night Bahamian itineraries and five-night Caribbean cruises to ether Grand Cayman or Cozumel, Mexico.All sailings from Port Canaveral and Miami will include a stop at Castaway Cay, Disney's private island paradise outfitted for family fun and relaxation and brimming with special Disney touches.Caribbean Cruises from San JuanThe Disney Magic will sail out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for two special itineraries in early November. A seven-night southern Caribbean sailing will visit Antigua, St. Lucia, Aruba and Bonaire, while a following six-night voyage will feature stops in St. Thomas and Falmouth, Jamaica.Baja Peninsula Voyages from CaliforniaSpooktacular sailings return to California in late September with Halloween on the High Seas cruises to the Baja Peninsula from San Diego. The Disney Wonder will host three-, four-, five- and seven-night vacations from southern California, allowing guests to celebrate the Halloween season at sea while taking in the mesmerizing beauty of Mexico.Sailings to Bermuda and Canada from New YorkThe Disney Magic returns to New York in late September for a series of Halloween on the High Seas sailings to Bermuda and Canada. Guests can visit Bermuda's pink sand beaches and colorful coral reefs on five-night vacations or set their sights for a special six-night cruise to the Canadian ports of New Brunswick and Halifax that includes a stop in Bar Harbor, Maine.Vacations to Bahamas and Caribbean from TexasThe Disney Magic will visit Galveston, Texas, in late November for a variety of five- and seven-night Very Merrytime Cruises. Guests can experience the magic of the holidays on western Caribbean itineraries with ports of call that include Cozumel and Progreso, Mexico; Falmouth, Jamaica; and Grand Cayman.Aida announces 2022 World Cruise After the great success of past world voyages, AIDA Cruises today announced that AIDAsol will sail its first world cruise in winter 2022-2023, a 117-day adventure that includes rounding Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope and visiting destinations such as Glacier Alley, Tierra del Fuego, Mauritius, Cape Town and New Year's Eve in Sydney. In addition to popular destinations, AIDAsol will make first-time port calls at Suva in Fiji, Nuku'alofa in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga, Mystery Island in Vanuatu, Île des Pins in New Caledonia and Geraldton in Australia.From October 26, 2022, AIDAsol will call at 43 ports in 20 different countries on four continents, pass the International Date Line and cross the equator twice. From Hamburg, the ship will first set course for South America. After calls on the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands, dream destinations such as Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Ushuaia and Chile await guests.From there AIDAsol continues westward to Tahiti, Bora Bora, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu (Christmas), New Caledonia and Australia to Mauritius. Guests welcome the New Year against the magical backdrop of Sydney.The last leg of the voyage takes guests aboard AIDAsol via La Reunion to South Africa and Namibia. On the way back to Europe, travellers visit Tenerife and Madeira. The voyage continues via Lisbon and Cherbourg/France, to Hamburg, where it ends on February 20, 2023.In addition, three legs of the world cruise can be booked. The duration of the voyage varies between 30 and 48 days — a perfect opportunity to fulfil the dream of a unique voyage in shorter stages. For example, AIDA guests can travel from Hamburg to San Antonio in 36 days, from San Antonio to Mauritius in 48 days or from Mauritius to Hamburg in 33 days.On sale now via travel agents.Coral Expeditions releases two new North Australian expeditions in 2022Coral Expeditions, Australia's pioneering small ship cruise line, has today announced two special departures ‘Across the Top' of Australia for early in the new year. The itineraries will operate between Broome and Cairns in January 2022 with only two 18-night voyages planned on the company's state of the art 2019 expedition ship Coral Adventurer.  Covering over 4,000 km of remote coastline, the voyage will take a small number of like-minded guests through Australia's great rivers, pristine outer reefs, and ancient traditional communities seen by very few in their lifetime. The expeditions will be hosted by Coral Expeditions' renowned guides who will share insights into the rich history, geology, and indigenous cultures of the region.“These voyages have been created for Australians and inspired by guest demand we see each year to join together our 10-night Kimberley and 11-night Cape York and Arnhem Land voyages” stated Commercial Director Jeff Gillies. “These are two of our most popular Australian expeditions.  This combined voyage brings together our greatest hits”Voyage Details: 18-nights | Broome to Cairns departing 1 January 2022 | Aboard Coral Adventurer18-nights | Cairns to Broome | departing 20 January 2022 | Aboard Coral AdventurerFred. Olsen Cruise Lines unveils brand new sailings aboard new ships Bolette and Borealis in 2022Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has today unveiled 16 brand new sailings aboard new ships Bolette and Borealis departing in early 2022.The new cruises include a 34-night sailing to the Caribbean and a 15-night Mediterranean discovery, as well as sailings closer to home with a five-night scenic Ireland sailing and a two-night ‘no port' short break. Also included are scenic sailings to the Norwegian fjords, opportunities to witness the Northern Lights and voyages to the Canary Islands or Iceland, to name a few.Durations range from two to 38 nights, with departures available from Southampton and Liverpool.Highlights of the new 2022 programme include:Borealis' 34nt ‘Cultural Caribbean and the Americas' cruise, departing from Southampton on 6th January 2022. Departure of a 38-night sailing is also available from (and returning to) Liverpool on 4th January 2022.  Itinerary: Southampton, England – Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal – St John's, Antigua and Barbuda – Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis – Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – Santa Marta, Colombia – Colon, Panama – Puerto Limón, Costa Rica (overnight stay) – Belize City, Belize – Cozumel, Mexico – Kings Wharf, Bermuda (overnight stay) – Southampton, EnglandBolette's 14nt ‘In Search of the Northern Lights' cruise, departing from Southampton on 30th January 2022.Itinerary: Southampton, England – Trondheim, Norway – Alta, Norway (overnight stay) – Tromsø, Norway (overnight stay) – Bodø, Norway – Ålesund, Norway – Southampton, EnglandBolette's 19nt ‘Ancient Adriatic with Venice' cruise, departing from Southampton on 13th February 2022.Itinerary: Southampton, England – Cartagena, Spain – Valletta, Malta – Split, Croatia – Venice, Italy – Zadar, Croatia – Dubrovnik, Croatia – Cruising Strait of Messina, Italy – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy – Lisbon, Portugal – Southampton, EnglandBorealis' 5nt‘Touring Scenic Ireland in Five Nights' cruise, departing from Liverpool on 14th April 2022.Itinerary: Liverpool, England – Cruising by Spike Island, Ireland – Cobh, Country Cork, Ireland – Galway, Ireland – Cruising by Cliffs of Moher, Ireland – Cruising by Dún Aonghasa, Aran Islands – Cruising by Clare Island, Clew Bay – Cruising by Croaghaun, Achill Island – Cruising by Inishkea Islands – Cruising Wild Atlantic Bay, Mayo – Cruising by Downpatrick Head, Mayo – Cruising by Malin Head & Sliabh Liag, Ireland – Cruising by Arranmore, Ireland – Cruising by Tory Island, Northern Ireland – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Liverpool, EnglandSaga Cruises' new ship Captains announced as the cruise liner returns to the wavesSaga Cruises is welcoming two new Captains to operate the cruise company's sister ships, ‘Spirit of Discovery' and ‘Spirit of Adventure', as they return to the waves this summer, along with a familiar face who will be returning to take the brand new ‘Spirit of Adventure' on her inaugural cruise.Darin Bowland and Jason Ikiadis will join Kim Tanner as the Captains of Saga's cruise ships that are exclusively designed for guests who are over 50.Captain Bowland will take the helm of Spirit of Discovery on June 27 as she heads off around the British Isles, and Captain Tanner will take Spirit of Adventure on her inaugural 15-night cruise around the British Isles on July 26.Captain Darin Bowland has previously held positions with Royal Caribbean and Carnival Corporation (Holland America), after starting his career as a cadet with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1985.Captain Jason Ikiadis comes from a long line of seafarers, including his own father who was a ship's Captain, and his paternal grandfather who was in the Royal Navy. “Captain Ikiadis first went to sea in 1984, and has held many positions since, working up the ranks to Captain for cruise lines such as Azamara and TUIRegular Saga Cruisers will also recognise Captain Kim Tanner who has been with the cruise line for five years and is popular with guests and crew alike. MSC VIRTUOSAEmma from Emma Cruises recently sailed on the first UK sailing onboard MSC Virtuosa. 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How did an IT consultant from Chicago end up dominating the second-home real estate market on Mexico's Baja Peninsula? Nick Fong joins me on today's Tom Ferry Podcast Experience to explain all! On pace for 700 transactions in 2021, Nick and his Ronival Real Estate team are always testing to discover the best strategies to attract new leads, nurture them, and convert! Nick reveals his process – along with some of the mistakes he's made along the way. Even if you're not in a second-home market, many of Nick's strategies can be applied toward standard residential real estate to improve your follow-up strategies and master conversion!

Are we alone in the universe? Probably not. Have aliens visited us on Earth? Maybe. Did they come here on fully sick spaceships that defy the laws of physics? Hmm. Not sure. But Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Donald Trump all think there might be something behind the video that showed a fairly boring dot on an infra red camera darting around like a lunatic off the Baja Peninsula off Mexico. We take a peek at what Chad Underwood and David Fravor have to say about seeing mysterious aircraft from their fancy jet planes and we also speculate that Bob Lazar might be full of shit. We also look at the idiots that marched in Melbourne in defiance of the lockdown and how a very silly theory about the millions of vaccine murdered people will be turned into fertiliser actually has a kernel of truth to it. Pete Evans is really not well. After copping an almost $80k fine in the mail he has ripped his website to bits and even stopped shitposting. If you're knocking about near Uki, go check on him. I don't think he is doing well. Loved making this one even though it was a slog. Do us a favour and share it around - and give a review if you can on your app - and make it worth having my weekend sucked into an alien vortex to bring you this ridiculous ninety odd mins of bullshit!

Wanna split £100? You get £50 free AND save money on 100% green electricity by moving to Octopus Energy. Plus I get £50 to support this podcast but ONLY if you do it by using my unique referral code. I moved to Octopus recently and had been putting it off for ages,  but I kicked myself for not doing it sooner, as it’s literally a 5 minute job to give them your details.   Click here: https://share.octopus.energy/free-puma-452   On today’s podcast: Volkswagen ID.4 Survives Mexican 1000 Off-Road Race VW plans to design its own computer chips Tesla Avoiding Global Chip Shortage Stellantis to hit emissions target without Tesla's help BMW / Ford Invest In Solid State Batteries Huawei deepens dive into EVs, seeks control of small automaker Tesla steps up engagement with Chinese regulators Germans discover lithium for 400 million EVs Xpeng & NIO Sales Strong In April Polestar 2 EV can now use your phone as a Digital Key       Show #1072   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 4th May. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 SURVIVES MEXICAN 1000 OFF-ROAD RACE - Racer Tanner Foust has competed in countless long-distance off-road races, but after bringing the all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 home after the  National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) Mexican 1000 off-road event on the Baja Peninsula, he was surprised. This was the first time he and co-driver Emme Hall contested a 1,000-mile race without a single mechanical problem.   - the only electric vehicle entered in the event.   - To charge the ID.4 in the wilds of Baja, the Volkswagen team will use a portable biofuel generator powering a 50-kW portable fast charger. As the NORRA Mexico 1000 race will be run in loops due to COVID travel restrictions, the team will attempt to complete about 98 percent of the stages in the loop event without the need for recharging.   - The interior of the ID.4 has been stripped of features such as the HVAC system and modified with a roll cage, safety racing seats and supplemental screens for key data like battery temperature.   - Foust noted that their main issue was charge time; he and Hall could travel similar distances to their ICE counterparts, but they needed to wait longer to fill up the battery.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/ErqCx/ Original Source : https://jalopnik.com/volkswagen-id-4-survives-mexican-1000-off-road-race-wit-1846807213   SOFTWARE, SOLAR ENERGY: THE RISKY CONVERSION PLAN FROM VW BOSS DIESS - CEO Herbert Diess orders VW to launch the next revolution after electromobility : he wants to create the fully networked and self-steering vehicle with its own processors .The 2030 strategy , which the VW boss is currently working on, is intended to bring the group on a par with Tesla and Apple . But does the lucrative core business still attract enough attention ? Many in the company doubt this.In an interview with the Handelsblatt explained VW CEO Herbert Diess , why carmaker software and hardware need to understand   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/AGG4ev/ Original Source : https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/software-chips-solarenergie-die-autonome-bewegung-diess-verordnet-vw-nach-der-e-mobilitaet-schon-die-naechste-revolution/27144790.html?ticket=ST-1321144-ZGiNQZPYOCPzV7pVSB2a-ap6     VW PLANS TO DESIGN ITS OWN COMPUTER CHIPS | AUTOBLOG - Volkswagen did not plan to build semiconductors but wanted to own patents if possible, Diess said, adding that the group's software unit Cariad would develop the expertise and expand.  It would not, however, give VW an edge in terms of supply, which has been an ongoing issue for automakers in the face of skyrocketing demand from virtually every manufacturing sector that utilizes electronic components.   - "Apple and Tesla have higher competence in terms of how semiconductors are defined,   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/4Vx8y/ Original Source : https://www.autoblog.com/2021/05/02/vw-design-microchips/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZW5nYWRnZXQuY29tL3Z3LWNoaXBzLWZvci1zZWxmLWRyaXZpbmctY2Fycy0yMDI2NDU0ODIuaHRtbD9ndWNjb3VudGVyPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMWmSePSf6ogjjR9uSpjhrp3iCHKyAt18in5m_k38eMnjShjDMMMB0FIRZXpiyYjYG9Xy4k0g2XLXfNKywb5nRn_L5F62bFSDFXM3aExJH5SWgXCp1-YZB5Ang8EcQQmADpWPBaOfAtMdX-i5SszI1wCxPKA7f0iLgw24c95h3k2     HOW TESLA PIVOTED TO AVOID THE GLOBAL CHIP SHORTAGE THAT COULD LAST YEARS - ELECTREK - “In Q1, we were able to navigate through global chip supply shortage issues in part by pivoting extremely quickly to new microcontrollers, while simultaneously developing firmware for new chips made by new suppliers.”   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/91fOy/ Original Source : https://electrek.co/2021/05/03/how-tesla-pivoted-avoid-global-chip-shortage/     STELLANTIS TO HIT EMISSIONS TARGET WITHOUT TESLA'S HELP, SAYS CEO | REUTERS - Stellantis expects to achieve its European carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets this year without environmental credits bought from Tesla, its CEO said in an interview published on Tuesday.   - FCA, which spent about 2 billion euros ($2.40 billion) to buy European and U.S. CO2 credits from electric vehicle maker Tesla over the 2019-2021   - we will autonomously meet carbon dioxide emission regulations as early as this year,” Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares said in the interview with French weekly Le Point.   - FCA will no longer have to pool with Tesla or anyone.”   - European regulations require all car manufacturers to reduce CO2 emissions for private vehicles to an average of 95 grams per kilometre this year.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/YQVYj/ Original Source : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stellantis-environment-electric/stellantis-to-hit-emissions-target-without-teslas-help-says-ceo-idUSKBN2CL1IM     BMW GROUP STRENGTHENS LEADERSHIP POSITION IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY WITH INVESTMENT IN SOLID-STATE INNOVATOR SOLID POWER   - Solid Power, an   industry-leading producer of all solid-state batteries for electric   vehicles, today announced a $130 million Series B investment round led   by the BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and Volta Energy Technologies.   - BMW Group   and Ford aim to utilize Solid Power’s low-cost, high-energy all   solid-state battery technology in forthcoming electric vehicles.   - Ted   Miller, Ford’s manager of Electrification Subsystems and Power Supply   Research. “By simplifying the design of solid-state versus lithium-ion   batteries, we’ll be able to increase vehicle range, improve interior   space and cargo volume, deliver lower costs and better value for   customers and more efficiently integrate this kind of solid-state   battery cell technology into existing lithium-ion cell production processes.”   - Solid Power’s truly   all-solid cell designs achieve higher energy densities, are safer and   are expected to cost less than today’s best-performing lithium-ion   battery cells.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/7qu5v/ Original Source : https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0331495EN/bmw-group-strengthens-leadership-position-in-battery-technology-with-investment-in-solid-state     EXCLUSIVE HUAWEI DEEPENS DIVE INTO EVS, SEEKS CONTROL OF SMALL AUTOMAKER -sources | Reuters - China’s Huawei Technologies is in talks to take control of a small domestic automaker’s electric vehicle unit, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that would be a strategic shift for the world’s largest telecom equipment maker.   - Huawei, which has been battered by U.S. sanctions, is in talks with Chongqing Sokon (601127.SS) to acquire a controlling stake in the latter's Chongqing Jinkang New Energy Automobile, said the sources.   - inkang counts U.S. EV brand Seres, formerly known as SF Motors, as its main asset.   - Huawei's foray into EVs comes as technology firms such as Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) have been stepping up efforts in the world's biggest market for such vehicles, as Beijing heavily promotes greener vehicles to reduce carbon emissions.   - For months, Huawei has been deeply involved in the operation and manufacturing of the little-known Sokon and its loss-making Seres unit.Under the tie-up, Seres's first model, "Huawei Smart Selection" SF5, debuted at the Shanghai Auto Show and received over 3,000 orders within two days after the pre-sale started last week, according to Sere   - Huawei is selling sf5 vehicles in its stores across China including its online store VMall.com.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/gEUTw/ Original Source : https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-huawei-deepens-dive-into-evs-seeks-control-small-automaker-sources-2021-04-29/   TESLA, UNDER SCRUTINY IN CHINA, STEPS UP ENGAGEMENT WITH REGULATORS, REPORT SAYS - Tesla's change of strategy leading to more behind-the-scenes interaction with policymakers in Beijing compared to relatively little previously shows the seriousness with which the U.S. automaker views the setbacks in its second-biggest market.   - Manufacturers typically join such meetings in China, but unlike rivals including Toyota and General Motors, Tesla officials were largely absent from the closed-door gatherings, according to four people familiar with the matter.   - in past weeks, Tesla executives attended at least four policy discussions, on topics including auto data storage, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies, car recycling and carbon emissions, the people said.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/uznaS/ Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/tesla-under-scrutiny-china-steps-engagement-regulators-report-says     GERMANS DISCOVER ENOUGH LITHIUM IN THE RHINE RIVER VALLEY TO BUILD 400 MILLION EVS - SLASHGEAR - Germany has announced that it has discovered significant lithium deposits beneath the Rhine River and plans to mine the critical material. According to authorities, the deposit beneath the river could hold enough to build 400 million electric cars.   - The lithium is in a molten state and is trapped inside underground springs of boiling water thousands of meters below the Rhine River. If the estimates of the size of the lithium deposit are accurate, it would be one of the world’s biggest deposits.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/7foPW/ Original Source : https://www.slashgear.com/germans-discover-enough-lithium-in-the-rhine-river-valley-to-build-400-million-evs-02671220/     XPENG ALMOST QUADRUPLED EV SALES IN APRIL 2021 - Xpeng noted another 5,000+ electric car sales in a single month, quickly expanding its volume year-over-year. Last month, the company delivered 5,147 EVs (up 285% year-over-year). Most of the growth comes from the addition of the second model - P7, which joined the G3 in June 2020. Xpeng offers two models, the P7 and G3:   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/mE150/ Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/504994/xpeng-ev-sales-april-2021/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-all-articles   NIO EV SALES NEAR RECORD HIGH IN APRIL 2021     - NIO more than doubled its electric car sales in April to a near-record level despite the chip shortage affecting manufacturing. Last month, the company delivered 7,102 EVs in China (a fourth 7,000+ result in the last five months), which is 125% more than a year ago and very close to March's record.   - ES6 (5-seat SUV): 3,163 (up 9% year-over-year) EC6 coupe version of the ES6: 2,416 (new) ES8 (7- or 6-seat SUV): 1,523   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/VNFO2/ Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/504785/nio-ev-sales-april-2021/     POLESTAR 2 EV CAN NOW USE YOUR PHONE AS A DIGITAL KEY - ROADSHOW     - The Polestar 2 EV can now use your smartphone as a Digital Key, replacing the wireless key fob to unlock and start the car. An over-the-air (OTA) update for the vehicle and an updated version of the Polestar app are required to make use of the beta functionality.   - The Polestar 2's Digital Key feature makes use of 18 Bluetooth sensors in and around the vehicle's interior and exterior to detect the owner's smartphone running the Polestar app. An encrypted handshake enables the vehicle and the device to authenticate and communicate and allows the vehicle to accurately detect the position of the phone.   - Once the Polestar 2 detects that the car is inside of the cabin, the EV can be started and driven away.   - In addition to the Digital Key beta framework, the Polestar mobile app has gained a bit more functionality when away from the Polestar 2. The app can now display the EV's battery and range status, remotely activate climate preconditioning and lock and unlock the doors.   Highlighted Source : https://share.getliner.com/nVyfF/ Original Source : https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/polestar-2-ev-phone-as-a-digital-key/       QUESTION OF THE WEEK WITH EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM   EVs are connected cars. 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In episode 6 Adventure is afoot as Mark makes plans to attend the 2021 Biltwell El Diablo Run, talks about some of the messed up shit he's seen at night in the Mojave desert of southern Nevada and puts down some mileage on his long suffering Dyna. Bill interviews Mauro Manente and Mikey Lopez about their experience traveling the  desolate roads of the Baja Peninsula and the trials and tribulations of organizing a trip through this unforgiving desert region. Mike speaks about the origin of his 47 industries rigid scrambler build, his harrowing 2019 Motorcycle crash on the road to the last EDR and why he's the most death proof motherfucker on two wheels.  Along the way we'll hear his exciting account of flying shoes, improvised  emergency roadside repairs and gas station first aid. Mauro discusses putting together a survival tool roll, the power of gorilla tape, his much loved 1982 Harley Davidson Shovelhead FXR and newer Dyna Low Rider S. In his closing statements Mark reminds us to take a chance on life and not be afraid to gamble with death. Recipe for Mexican Street Tacos (They've been places and seen things that can't be unseen) Skill Level: Easier then yo mamaCourse: Lunch, DinnerCalories: a few...Serves: 6 People INGREDIENTS:2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice2 tablespoons canola oil, divided3 cloves garlic, minced2 teaspoons chili powder1 teaspoon ground cumin1 teaspoon dried oregano1 1/2 pounds skirt steak, cut into 1/2-inch pieces12 mini flour tortillas, warmed3/4 cup diced red onion1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves1 lime, cut into wedgesINSTRUCTIONS:1. In a medium bowl, combine soy sauce, lime juice, 1 tablespoon canola oil, garlic, chili powder, cumin and oregano.2. In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine soy sauce mixture and steak; marinate for at least 1 hour up to 4 hours, turning the bag occasionally.3. Heat remaining 1 tablespoon canola oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add steak and marinade, and cook, stirring often, until steak has browned and marinade has reduced, about 5-6 minutes, or until desired doneness.4. Serve steak in tortillas, topped with onion, cilantro and lime.  

In Episode Twenty-Eight, Ian speaks with Robert Logan, General Manager of One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos, Mexico. The hacienda style resort is at the southeastern tip of the Baja Peninsula, overlooking the Sea of Cortez, creating a sense of space and seclusion. Set where desert sands meet turquoise waters, complete with healing rituals from a local Shaman, Robert shares the elements that make the Palmilla experience so exceptional.

Since we are big fans of gin, we are always excited when we find something new to try. Recently, we reached out to the person who had previously given us two vodkas from Humboldt Distillery to thank her and to let us know if we could be of any help to her in the future. Much to our happiness and surprise, she offered to send us two more samples! One of them is a wine that we will be featuring on a future podcast and the other is what we are trying today. For this episode we will be trying the Gray Whale Gin from Golden State Distillery. Every year the Gray Whale makes a 12,000 mile migration from the Baja Peninsula to the Arctic and this small batch gin celebrates that journey. It features ingredients that can be found at different locations in California along the journey, including limes from Baja and mint from Santa Cruz. Another cool thing is that a portion of the profits support Oceana, the largest organization in the world solely devoted to marine conservation. Also, it comes in a cool blue bottle. What did we think? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below or join us live on Thursday nights to give us your feedback while we are live streaming on Twitch.

Chris DiCroce and his wife are experiencing an inner journey that people are undertaking now due to the inability to travel physically. But instead of feeling as if they've been backed into a corner, they’re discovering a door they never knew was there before. Chris is a best-selling author, musician, speaker, and sailor. After they sold their house and almost everything they owned to move onto a sailboat, they discovered the greatest triumphs sometimes came from their greatest challenges.Today they are back from an adventure in the Baja Peninsula that left them with new questions and thoughts for the future. Chris shares stories describing how the fear of the unknown did not keep them from going on what would became a magical trip and would end up giving him the space and energy to write his latest book, "The Quiet Goings On."

#288. Barry Walton speaks with ISBJORN skipper & guest-host August Sandberg about his documentary film series REACHING REALITY, where he and two friends set out down the Baja Peninsula in search of adventure on their 24-foot sailboat. -- Join 59º North LIVE! During the coronavirus lockdown we're hosting FREE Live Sessions, 1-2 hour topical discussions on all things ocean sailing. From Offshore Weather Fundamentals to Dyneema Splicing, Live Interviews & more. It's highly interactive - audience members can come on screen to ask questions, chat, etc. It's a blast! Check out 59-north.com/live to learn more and see the LIVE Session schedule! -- ON THE WIND is presented by Sailing Yacht Power Solutions - makers of the revolutionary power generation solution that eliminates the need for a separate generator and uses your current engine installation. Contact S/Y Power Solutions at Info@sypowers.com -- ON THE WIND is also supported by Weems & Plath, makers of fine nautical & weather instruments since 1928, And Chesapeake Sailmakers, Local Annapolis based sailmaker, and distributer of Elvstrom Sails. 

Inspired by Senior Editor Jim Frank’s “Consummate Cabo” piece in the Winter 2020 issue of LINKS Magazine, Digital Editor Al Lunsford brings Jim on to discuss golf on the Baja Peninsula in the Season 4 finale of the LINKS Golf Podcast. Jim gives perspective on what makes Cabo a “slam-dunk, bucket-list destination,” why there has been so much golf and resort development of late, and what any prospective traveler to the area needs to know. Jim also walks us through the courses he was able to visit during a week-long trip where he played five rounds in six days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This ‘Insight’ episode is taken from episode 010 of the podcast with Elena Finkbeiner. In this short segment, Elena discusses reflexivity in the scientific process and then explains the usefulness of games or behavioral economics experiments with fishers in Mexico.  Elena Finkbeiner is the Fisheries Science Program Manager at Conservation International’s Center for Oceans. She is interested in understanding and improving adaptive capacity and equality within and across fishing communities and integrating a human rights-based approach to fisheries governance. She has over a decade of experience working in small-scale fisheries along the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Elena holds a degree from UC Santa Cruz, a master’s degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School for the Environment and a PhD from Stanford University. Conservation International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with over 30 years of experience, with a mission statement to empower societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.  Conservation International - Center for Oceans https://www.conservation.org/about/center-for-oceans Check out: https://www.riseseafood.org/   Finding Sustainability Podcast @find_sust_pod https://twitter.com/find_sust_pod Environmental Social Science Network https://essnetwork.net/ https://twitter.com/ESS_Network @ESS_Network

Billy Egan Director 2019 WON Bass US Open on Lake Mead recapped this historic event for us. Cabo Greg Arizpe from Land’s End Charters had a report on the fishing conditions out of Cabo San Lucas. Award winning outdoor writer Gary Graham gave us a report on this year’s Bisbee Tournament and filled us in on others happenings on the Baja Peninsula

Motivation In Mexico – SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 Recorded in the living room of a vineyard chateau on the Baja Peninsula, episode 21 of NDFX features personality powerhouses Justin Yoo, Kristian Wong, and Duane Bada.  Join […]

Not everyone gets in their vintage land cruiser and sets out to tour the Baja Peninsula as “Slow” as they can. Mike Emery is an exception to the racers in my world but has seen a whole lot more by taking his time. Enjoy this casual interview with a man that has a love for Baja and all that it is. And why wouldn't he? Mike has been traveling to baja almost his entire life… Follow him on Instagram at @slowbaja

The Blackwell Brotherhood is a clan of four teenaged surfing brothers from the Central Coast of California. About 10 years ago their adventurous parents started building a home in San Jose Del Cabo at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula. The decade long project is finally near completion and the “Brotherhood" has just returned from a 3 week Baja trip that included some manual labor, a little film making and lots of surfing and tacos.

Over 30 years ago Englishman, Graham Mackintosh fell in love with Baja California on a day trip to Ensenada from San Diego. Not long after that first visit and despite a glaring shortage of both experience and money, Mackintosh, who described himself as the "least adventurous person in the world," set out to walk around the beautiful but dangerous coastline of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. The near two-year, 3,000-mile trip changed his life. When Mackintosh emerged from the cactus-strewn wilderness, he returned to England to write Into a Desert Place and there received the prestigious "Adventurous Traveller of the Year" award. But he could not stay away. Over the following three decades he returned to Baja multiple times and completed several astonishing treks with a few furry friends. In total he has written four books that chronicle these adventures and is currently working on a fifth. You can find all four of his books on amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Mackintosh/e/B001IQWG1QYou can learn more about Graham on his website at:https://grahammackintosh.com/

Elena Finkbeiner is the Fisheries Science Program Manager at Conservation International’s Center for Oceans. She wants to understand and improve adaptive capacity and equality within and across fishing communities and integrate a human rights-based approach to fisheries governance. She has over a decade of experience working in small-scale fisheries along the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Elena holds a degree from UC Santa Cruz, a master’s degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School for the Environment and a PhD from Stanford University. Conservation International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with over 30 years of experience, with a mission statement to empower societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.  https://www.conservation.org/about/center-for-oceans https://www.riseseafood.org/

The Baja Peninsula is home to a bewildering diversity of plant species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. Despite all of its botanical treasures, we are only just beginning to understand the biogeographical nuances of this small spit of land. That is where people like Dr. Sula Vanderplank come in. A freelance botanist by trade, Dr. Vanderplank has recently been lending her talents to finding, describing, and conserving the plants that call Baja home. Of course, such efforts are made possible only by strong cross-border collaborations focused on protecting these amazing plants. This episode was produced in part by Joey, Catherine, Brandon, Hall, Vegreville Creek and Wetlands Fund, Kevin, Oliver, John, Johansson, Christina, Jared, Hannah, Katy Pye, Brandon, Gwen, Carly, Stephen, Botanical Tours, Moonwort Studios, Lisa, Liba, Lucas, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, doeg, Clifton, Stephanie, Rachelle, Benjamin, Eli, Rachael, Anthony, Plant By Design, Philip, Brent, Ron, Tim, Homestead Brooklyn, Brodie, Kevin, Sophia, Brian, Mark, Rens, Bendix, Irene, Holly, Caitlin, Manuel, Jennifer, Sara, and Margie.

What The Hell Is Going With UFOs And The Department Of Defense? Article Link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense?fbclid=IwAR1PMy-rOTCmVW8z9OoBndPEG4UzQ57g_4jEACuuCQOkM99OHqLe4803i0s Few stories have garnered more requests from our readers for commentary than the recent news that the Navy has decided to very publicly change its reporting rules and procedures for when its personnel observes an unexplained phenomenon like a UFO and a USO. Politico was first to report on the Navy's new directions for reporting unexplained objects operating in the same environment as its vessels and aircraft. Politico's Bryan Bender writes The Washington Post did their own follow-up to Politico's story, stating: Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Citing safety and security concerns, Gradisher vowed to “investigate each and every report.” The Washington Post did their own follow-up to Politico's story, stating: Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Citing safety and security concerns, Gradisher vowed to “investigate each and every report.” He said, “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.” He said, “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.” When it comes to the so-called "Tic Tac" incident that involved the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off the Baja Peninsula in 2004, conclusions that are nearly impossible not to draw from it are so reality warping that even the forward-thinking aerospace community doesn't seem to have even begun coming to terms with them. Ideal test conditions What most don't realize is that the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group wasn't just equipped with some of the most advanced sensors the world had to offer, but that it also had hands-down the most advanced networking and computer processing capability of any such system. Dubbed Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), this integrated air defense system architecture was just being fielded on a Strike Group level for the first time aboard Nimitz and the rest of its flotilla. Show Stuff TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Trurh Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 Manny Moonraker: https://www.facebook.com/MannyMoonraker/ UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

What The Hell Is Going With UFOs And The Department Of Defense? Article Link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense?fbclid=IwAR1PMy-rOTCmVW8z9OoBndPEG4UzQ57g_4jEACuuCQOkM99OHqLe4803i0s Few stories have garnered more requests from our readers for commentary than the recent news that the Navy has decided to very publicly change its reporting rules and procedures for when its personnel observes an unexplained phenomenon like a UFO and a USO. Politico was first to report on the Navy's new directions for reporting unexplained objects operating in the same environment as its vessels and aircraft. Politico's Bryan Bender writes The Washington Post did their own follow-up to Politico's story, stating: Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Citing safety and security concerns, Gradisher vowed to “investigate each and every report.” The Washington Post did their own follow-up to Politico's story, stating: Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Citing safety and security concerns, Gradisher vowed to “investigate each and every report.” He said, “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.” He said, “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.” When it comes to the so-called "Tic Tac" incident that involved the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off the Baja Peninsula in 2004, conclusions that are nearly impossible not to draw from it are so reality warping that even the forward-thinking aerospace community doesn't seem to have even begun coming to terms with them. Ideal test conditions What most don't realize is that the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group wasn't just equipped with some of the most advanced sensors the world had to offer, but that it also had hands-down the most advanced networking and computer processing capability of any such system. Dubbed Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), this integrated air defense system architecture was just being fielded on a Strike Group level for the first time aboard Nimitz and the rest of its flotilla. Show Stuff TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Trurh Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 Manny Moonraker: https://www.facebook.com/MannyMoonraker/ UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Pete and Brother Tim return from their adventures on the Baja Peninsula and give us all excellent tips for travelling in Mexico.

Pete and Brother Tim return from their adventures on the Baja Peninsula and give us all excellent tips for travelling in Mexico.

BCR hosts--Becky and Alan--had been to Cabo, St Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula and loved the beaches, food and tequila -- but we yearned for something less touristy -- less honky-tonk and richie-rich. We had visited Todos Santos up the coast on the Pacific side of Baja and decided that we would vacation in this sleepy Mexican village. Becky found a spacious, airy room at Villa La Mar, nestled on the side of a hill facing the Pacific Ocean. The ride from Highway 19 was a bit rough over rutted dirt roads -- but we got used to it -- and our room was down a series of stone steps that seemed to be cut into the side of the landscape.We fell in love with our space -- a pool three steps up from our patio was continuously inviting and the service was friendly but never intrusive. For much of the week we had the Villa to ourselves.Though we were on vacation we could not pass up the opportunity of talking to the designer of Villa La Mar -- Miguel Ochoa-- and on the way to the interview we stopped at a local fish taco stand and grabbed a quick conversation with its owner -- Pepe Sosa.Pepe and Miguel speak about living in this small art community and what they think about the U.S. - Mexico relations under Trump. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.