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...just as expensive. The mature males who drive open-cockpit racers, production vehicles and jerry-rigged "Baja bugs" at insane speeds over camel-backed "whoopdedoos" spend a minimum of $10,000 on their rigs. The cash prizes for most races are about $2,000. In Laughlin, a rest-stop community of 100 residents and three casinos tucked away in Nevada's desolate southern tip, the car with the fastest time...
...Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced; Manzanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, promises to become the world's next deep-sea fishing capital. Nicaragua and Colombia are also enjoying...
...American geographer; in Berkeley, Calif. As chairman of the geography department of the University of California at Berkeley from 1923-54, Sauer impressed on his students the need to find "humane ways" to use earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly exterminated the region...
Walton calls himself "a revolutionary" and "an internationalist." He says that he cannot understand labels of nationality or why people in California are so much more affluent than those just across the border in Baja California. "My concept of revolution," he explains, "has nothing to do with violence. Instead, each person starts within himself questioning his own values, judgments and relationship to society. Ultimately, you wind up living as part of the problem or part of the solution...
...stunning earth pictures ranged from such geological phenomena as craters on snow-capped volcanoes to sweeping views of Hurricane Ellen to an unusual formation of swirling clouds known as the Von Kármán vortex (after the aeronautical pioneer) over the Mexican island of Guadalupe off Baja California...