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  • The Valley of Guadalupe is Mexico's premier wine region, and only a short drive from the U.S. along Highway 3 between Tecate and Ensenada. This ...

    Kenbrant: The Valley of Guadalupe is Mexico's premier wine region, and only a short drive from the U.S. along Highway 3 between Tecate and Ensenada. This ...

  • When crossing into Mexico at the town of Tecate, look towards the median at the plaque with a bust of John F. Kennedy. It comes ...

    Kenbrant: When crossing into Mexico at the town of Tecate, look towards the median at the plaque with a bust of John F. Kennedy. It comes ...

  • If there is one tree that signifies the special quality of Baja, it is the Boojum, scientifically known as Fouquieria columnaris. Those who've travelled south ...

    Kenbrant: If there is one tree that signifies the special quality of Baja, it is the Boojum, scientifically known as Fouquieria columnaris. Those who've travelled south ...

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Suicide Tourism

Baja | Cover Story
Published Aug. 20, 2008

Tijuana has long attracted people seeking medicine and medical procedures unavailable or unaffordable in their home countries. They've been joined recently by people seeking the means to kill themselves. And some of them are coming from ...

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Greetings from Tijuana

Baja | Cover Story
Published Aug. 6, 2008

The End of the World A mile east of the Tijuana International Airport is an area police call El Fin del Mundo, the End of the World, where drug-cartel assassins dump their victims. Both Mexican and ...

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Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation

Baja | Chula Vista | City Heights | College Area | Coronado | Cover Story | Downtown | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Imperial Beach | La Jolla | Lemon Grove | Logan Heights | Midway | Mira Mesa | Normal Heights | North Park | Oceanside | Otay Mesa | Pacific Beach | Solana Beach
Published Jan. 23, 2008

Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...

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Tijuana is a Wonderland

Back When | Baja
Published Oct. 4, 2007

Thirty Years Ago BOB CLARK: What are you up to? I'm cut off from civilization up here in hicktown with no Reader. "Charlie Mansoneer." YOU BETTER believe there are real women out here, but you won't ...

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Classic San Diego

Baja | Coronado | Cover Story | El Cajon | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Inland Border Towns | Julian | La Jolla | Lakeside | Pala | Potrero | SDSU | Vista
Published April 12, 2007

Most-Filmed Wild West Main Street Don't look yet. Turn off Woodside onto Maine and behold a li'l old Wild West street that'll knock your spurs off. It huddles beneath a perfect movie-set backdrop of towering granite ...

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Mexico's Tuscan Spirit

Baja | Crush
Published Jan. 25, 2007

Eileen Gregory didn't set out to open a popular restaurant/inn/spa/winemaking operation in Baja wine country and, in so doing, aid and abet the transformation and revitalization of the region. Together with her husband Phil, she set ...

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¡Baja!: Cooking on the Edge

Baja | What's That You're Reading
Published Jan. 11, 2007

Baja! Cooking on the Edge by Deborah M. Schneider. Photographs by Maren Caruso. Rodale, 2006, 274 pages, $27.95 FROM THE DUST JACKET: Chef Deborah Schneider first saw Baja in the '80s and fell in love with ...

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Mexico's Secret Vineyards

Baja | Crush
Published Jan. 11, 2007

Christoph Gaertner wanted out of Switzerland. "I was bored," he explains, standing in the tasting room of Vinisterra, one of the more recent winery ventures to spring up in Baja California. "In Europe, everything is full ...

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Boosting Baja's Image

Baja | Crush
Published Oct. 19, 2006

A friend of mine who worked in wine retail for a while used to hand-sell Beringer White Zinfandel. It's not that he thought it was particularly good. It's that he was looking beyond what the customer ...

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Cult Wine

Baja | Crush
Published Sept. 28, 2006

Three years ago, Steve Dryden arrived in Baja's wine country, looking for a niche -- a way to spend his retirement living close to the wine world, preferably on the touring/writing side of things. It didn't ...

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A Tour of Baja Vines

Baja | Crush
Published Sept. 21, 2006

In an odd little way -- a way not intended to inflate significances and circumstances beyond their proper size -- it's as if Steve Dryden's whole life has been leading up to where he is now: ...

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TJ Cultural Center Opens Time Portals

Baja | Calendar Highlight
Published Dec. 22, 2005

Museo de las Californias, a permanent installation at the Tijuana Cultural Center depicting the history of the Baja California peninsula, leads museumgoers on a regional time-trek beginning 73 million years ago and ending in 1935. The ...

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Tijuana Muscle

Baja | Cover Story
Published Sept. 29, 2005

"This gym, NeoSpa, opened in 1988. It was started by a Russian group that came to Tijuana. They came up with the name and made the original investment. They also opened a disco and a health ...

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A Tijuana Better Than In My Memory

Baja | Cover Story
Published Aug. 25, 2005

We contemplated our options. One ecstasy pill, check. Two 20-year-old women looking to party, check. Location was the hard part -- where can you party your brains out and act like an idiot without getting into ...

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Tijuana Gardens

Baja | Cover Story
Published June 23, 2005

I didn't recognize where I was. "Things have changed a lot," said Jorge Rodríguez, leading me out of the rain, into his two-story cinder-block house. "I came to Los Arenales looking for new horizons," he said. ...

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