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The 3000-Mile-No-Support Baja XL Rally with Andrew Szabo May 10, 2020

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Andrew Szabo created the zany Budapest-to-Bamako Rally and the 3000-mile-no-support-Baja XL Rally. In this podcast, we discuss adventure travel, Africa, Baja, off-roading, and how not to get shot when you steal a farmer's tractor to pull your car out of a silt bed!

The 2019 Baja XL Rally featured some 300 entrants in 140 vehicles hailing from 30 different countries. In 2017, Szabo created The Baja 4000 -for the four thousand kilometers, the event covered from LA to Cabo and back to LA. In 2019, the Slow Baja team competed in the Adventure 4x4 Catagory in the renamed Baja XL Rally.

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Ruben Hernandez Founder BCB Tasting Room in Tijuana May 10, 2020

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Ruben Valenzuela Hernandez is the owner of the BCB Tasting Room in Tijuana. With 42 beers on tap and another 400 in bottles, BCB is a mecca for craft beer drinkers from both sides of the border. In this podcast, we discuss the booming craft beer scene in Tijuana, the rise of the Valle de Guadalupe, Bichi Wine, tacos, and Ruben's favorite restaurants. Please note we taped this conversation in January 2020 before sheltering-in-place and social distancing due to COVID-19 was in practice.

BCB Tasting Room

Calle Orizaba 10335

Fracc. Neidhart 22020 Tijuana BC

+52.664.656.9405

Talking Chocolate at Casa Cacao in Tijuana May 10, 2020

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Recently Slow Baja spent a day exploring Tijuana. We had a great time eating, drinking, and recording. Our first stop was at the charming Casa Cacao for a late breakfast. The artisanal chocolate shop and mole restaurant -located just a few doors off of Ave. Revolution is a tiny slice of Oaxaca. Owners, Rosa, and Jose were eager to share their love and knowledge of cacao and its many healthful properties. We dined on enmoladas, tlayudas, and tamales with house-made salsas, and moles. Locally roasted dark coffee and traditional hot chocolate were an unexpected surprise. The conversation ranged from the healthful properties of cacao and dark chocolate to the state of the economy in Tijuana. Please note we taped this conversation in January 2020 -before social distancing and shelter-in-place orders due to COVID-19 were in place.

Casa Cacao

Calle 2da #8172

Zona Centro 22020 Tijuana BC

(664)215-6565

casacacaotijuana.com

Slow Baja - Art and Tacos with Adalberto Pérez Meillón May 01, 2020

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Adalberto Pérez Mellión is an artist and printmaker who operates Taller Pérez Mellión—initially opened as Galleria Pérez Mellión in 1988. In the beginning, he specialized in selling the art and crafts of the Paipai and the Kumeyaay Indian tribes of Northern Baja. He spent years traveling to their remote communities by four-wheel-drive vehicle trading for their handicrafts.

After an artist-in-residence scholarship took him to Zacatecas, to study printmaking at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Pérez Mellión returned to Ensenada and turned his gallery into a printing studio. Since that day, he has been teaching the craft of printmaking while selling the art of his students and local contemporary artists.

In this conversation, we discuss his progression from folk-art dealer to becoming an artist and a teacher of printmaking. Additionally, we covered a three-day hike with burros to see cave art he took with our mutual friend Ted Donovan led by Francisco Detrell. Last but certainly not least, we discussed the origins of fish tacos in Ensenada and his favorite tacos stands. Please note we taped this conversation in January 2020 before social distancing due to COVID-19 was in practice.

Taller Pérez Mellión
Lazaro Cardenas
22820 Ensenada, Baja California
+52 646 171 6127
www.facebook.com/pages/Taller-Pér…/113662939114683

Centro de las Artes de Baja California
Boulevard Lázaro Cárdenas y Avenida Club Rotario
22880 Ensenada, Baja California
(646) 173 43 07/08
www.icbc.gob.mx
www.facebook.com/CEARTEnsenada/

Francisco Detrell Baja Guide
Expediciones de Ecoturismo
(646) 178 0499
ecoturb@ens.com.mx

Tacos Corona Tacos de Pescado and Camaron
Avenida y, Espinoza, Benito Juárez,
tacoscorona.business.site

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