This lunacy is the Baja 500. It’s an off-road race, for race cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs. It’s been going on for 28 years. Mark Thatcher, the British prime minister’s son, ran it in 1982.
September 20, 1990
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Racing the Baja 500
Civil rights icon James Meredith icon moves to Mission Hills
Many strange paths end in San Diego. But none, perhaps, as twisted as the path that brought James Meredith to the comfortable Mission Hills address he now calls home. You don't have to be a …
September 20, 1990
A rooster in La Jolla was just not going to do
It was one of the weekends when my wife announces, out of the blue, that she is miserable, and except for our son, our marriage, essentially, is a disaster. I was building a chicken coop. …
September 20, 1990