Our first summer as real cruisers – that is, we’d left the relative stability of living in a marina and working in the States for the wilds of Mexico and beyond (well, someday we’ll go …
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Category: Destinations
Mazatlán 2019: The Good, the Bad, the Boat Yard
Oh da boat. I think our new tag line should be “It’s Always Somethin’,” since “Going Everywhere. Very Slowly.” seems to be BS, as we have been moving around Mexico quite quickly. But not this …
Continue readingRetracing Tracks 2019: Barra to Bahía de Banderas
March 15 – April 19, 2019 After a weird month-plus in Barra, what with Rand being gone for most of it, we were off once again to Punta de Mita and La Cruz in Bahía …
Continue readingRetracing Tracks 2019: Barra de Navidad
February 3 – March 14, 2019 For the past few years, we’ve been doing laps between the Baja Peninsula and the Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico as far south as Santiago Bay/Manzanillo. We cover …
Continue readingRetracing Tracks 2019: Maz to Tenacatita
January 18 – February 2, 2019 After a lovely couple of weeks in Mazatlán with the likes of Catatude, we headed south, with Barra de Navidad as our ultimate destination. There’s so much to see …
Continue readingRetracing Tracks 2019: La Paz to Mazatlán
December 29, 2018 – January 17, 2019 As per usual, the new year found us running from the unrelenting, chilly northers that descend upon Baja from the four corners region of the U.S. in the …
Continue readingHome with da Homies
San Diego: October 10-24, 2018 Now that we’re caught up on 2018 in Mexico, here’s a little glimpse into our visits home to hang with our homies. The first fall trip was all about Courtney …
Continue readingTime to Head South (Again) to La Paz
November 25 – December 14, 2018 Still getting caught up on the blog…here’s a super short post to get us there. It’s all about the pics anyway, right? Once we saw the Sacketts and their …
Continue readingTurkey Day in Bahía Concepción
November 17 – November 24, 2018 We always love spending time in Puerto Escondido and exploring the surrounding area, but it came time to head north again to Bahía Concepción to meet up with our …
Continue readingSan Carlos to Puerto Escondido and Environs
October 27 – November 16, 2018 Once we came to terms with the fact that we were now down 200W of solar (and ordered new panels to be hand-delivered by our good friends making their way …
Continue readingTo San Carlos to San Diego and Back
September 22 – October 26, 2018 Suddenly it was the end of September and it was time to get home for Courtney and Spencer’s wedding in San Diego! (Separate post to come…) So we made …
Continue readingBack in the Mexican Saddle: La Paz to BLA
August 12 – September 21, 2018 Based on the blog contents, you’d think we’d left Mexico for good, but no, we came back – we’re not done with this place yet. We actually returned right …
Continue readingThailand: Ayutthaya and Chiang Mai
Whoa…it’s been two months since we’ve posted anything to this blog, and we’re still not through Thailand! Well, this IS the last Thailand entry, meaning we’ve dragged you through one short month in only one …
Continue readingThailand: Surat Thani, Pak Chong, and Khao Yai NP
Ok, still in Thailand…Our little excursion in and around Khao Sok National Park left a bit of a sour taste in our mouths, so we had to give another national park a fair shake. This would also …
Continue readingThailand: Phuket Town and Khao Sok National Park
Yep, we’re still in Thailand – well, not physically, but blog-wise, that’s where we are. And weather-wise on mainland Mexico, it seemed just about as hot and sticky as Thailand, so there is that. We …
Continue readingThailand: Bangkok, Phuket, and Koh Yao Yai
We spent the past month and a half in Bahía de los Angeles in the Sea of Cortez with extremely limited wifi, so we are woefully behind on the blog. Hopefully, we can still remember …
Continue readingFLN Goes to Thailand: A Teaser
We’re back in Mexico after a month in the U.S. and a month in Thailand, which means more than 2 months (plus some since we’re lagging on the blog) have flown by! There are soooo …
Continue readingAlaska Video Overload!
Our last blog post was all photos of our visits to San Diego, Alaska, and San Francisco – all photos because we didn’t have time to work up the video that went along with each of …
Continue readingFLN Goes to the Great White North
Well, we went to California and Alaska, anyway. And, It. Was. COLD. Cold for our thin, Mexican blood. We did see 90-degrees (F) in Los Altos at the beginning of July, but a lot of …
Continue readingThe Beautiful Baja – and Sad So-longs
After taking care of some logistics in Mazatlán (which have changed since making all the arrangements – more on that in the Addendum below) in preparation for summer travel, boat work, etc., we sailed across …
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