Exploring Remote Baja: Cave Paintings and Old California Culture

There is a treasure trove of cultural history hidden in Baja's Sierra San Francisco: isolated ranches, a thriving cowboy lifestyle, and centuries-old rock art sites with extraordinary paintings of animals.

Exploring Remote Baja: Cave Paintings and Old California Culture
9/2/2008 7:00 PM

Tonight, Baja resident Trudi Angell, mule packer and founder of Paddling South?outfitter for REI Adventures, will introduce you to Baja?s rich cowboy culture with a screening of the documentary film she co-produced last year, Corazón Vaquero (The Heart of the Cowboy). Following the film, she?ll share slides and information on hiking/riding pack animals into Baja?s remote canyons to visit the remarkable cave paintings of Cueva El Palmarito, Cueva Pintada and Cueva de Las Flechas.

* Location:REI Concord, CA
* Contact:REI Concord Customer Service at 925-825-9400
* Cost: Free

Also check out The Cave Paintings of Baja

A Mexican Exotic - El Mastretta MXT

This aggressive looking coupe debuted at the Mexico City Auto Show in December. Mastretta Design has produced Mexico's first home-grown sports car with deeply sculpted, energetic stance. Mastretta is involved with all sorts design and manufacturing, ranging from bottles to buses and had produced a VW Bettle based sports kit-car called the MXB. This latest model is dubbed the MXT (for Mastretta MeXico Transverse). Like expensive exotic cars from Europe the body structure is bonded aluminum and the power train is a transversely mounted 2.3 liter Ford Duratec unit making 200 HP. First year production is targeted at 150 units per year with the first units going on sale in the UK shortly at a rumored list price of £32,999.
Exports to the US are planned, with a price of $55,000. Mexican pricing looks to be around $500,000 pesos.