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The Kindness of Strangers Part 2
By Tallsharon - August 22, 2011
My leg was beginning to sting a little when the doctor and a nurse came in. I’m assuming he was ...
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The Kindness of Strangers- the beginning
By Tallsharon - August 6, 2011
We were on a day trip with a bunch of middle aged to elderly people to Ensenada. My friend Kathy ...
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A train to Somewhere
By Tallsharon - August 6, 2011
link text Campo. When I think Campo, I think two things. The train to Tecate, and the bus to ...
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Enjoying the hottest days of the year during the first week of September at Lake Morena
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This photo was taken at the Inkopah tower on route to imperial Valley
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This man is methodically checking the spinach sprouts so that they can grow to perfection...Oh! what they have to do so that we can enjoy ...
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Manzanita at sunset in Lake Morena Village.
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Sharing a sip of Thistle nectar in lake Morena.
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Lake Morena Rock Collection
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Uranium in the Water in Campo Hills
By Matt Potter, May 11, 2011
With the price of gas the way it is, maybe a little uranium in the drinking water isn’t such a ...
The Wild Wild East
By Chad Deal, March 24, 2010
Brandon Stockwell, a film student at SDSU, climbs to the top of the border fence south of Campo and examines ...
Tiger Woods, Baby
By Ed Bedford, Oct. 25, 2007
Stop press: Oh, man. Since I wrote this, the fires engulfed us. Last chance I had to call Debbie at ...
Perfect Drought
By Bill Manson, Oct. 18, 2007
"It's catastrophic!" Duncan McFetridge flings his arms out. "Look, can't you see the change?" Several years ago, when I last ...
Remote Hauser Canyon, between Lake Morena and Campo, attracts dedicated hikers.
By Jerry Schad (RIP), Jan. 18, 2007
The linear, V-shaped gash of Hauser Canyon slices across one of the really remote, southern parts of San Diego County. ...
From Rural Retreat To Suburbia
By Ernie Grimm, Nov. 30, 2006
On September 19, the unincorporated community of Campo threw a once-in-a-century party. It featured a parade, cavalry reenactors, former buffalo ...
A Gritty Dilemma
By Ernie Grimm, Nov. 23, 2005
Around 9:30 p.m., on Friday the 19th of August, 22-year-old David Silverman of Jacumba and two female friends were cruising ...
Ramble on two wheels through San Diego County's sleepy Lake Morena and Campo region.
By Jerry Schad (RIP), March 17, 2005
The rural landscape spreading north and east of the tiny, border-hugging town of Campo is caught in a time warp. ...
It Would Turn You To Toast
By Ernie Grimm, Oct. 7, 2004
Pete Scully, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry's fire protection agency, stands next to his camper-shelled pickup ...
10 Million Will Buy This Town
By Ernie Grimm, April 8, 2004
Fifty miles east of downtown San Diego, 12 miles south of Interstate 8, Buckman Springs Road, approaching from the north, ...
Your Dad Arrested My Dad
By Ernie Grimm, Feb. 7, 2002
For most people who live "down the hill," as San Diego's backcountry residents refer to everything west of the mountains, ...
Best of 2001: Best Land Restoration
Dec. 27, 2001
Campo Band of Mission Indians 36190 Church Road, Campo 619-478-9046 So you thought that when Europeans came to San Diego, ...
Naked Monks Irk Campo Residents
By Ernie Grimm, June 14, 2001
Rumors spread through the backcountry town of Campo the way a wildfire spreads through the local hills. It starts with ...
Militarizing the Border
By Bill Manson, May 25, 2000
Brian Bilbray has no doubts: It's time to send in the troops. All along the border. "We need to send ...
Ride the rails of the San Diego & Arizona Eastern out of Campo on vintage railcars.
By Jerry Schad (RIP), Aug. 5, 1999
The desolate backcountry community of Campo, barely a stone's throw from the international border, has exactly two things of interest ...


