2020 Summer of COVID-19 Holy cow!! As I lamented in our recent Home Base post, we’re so far behind on this blog! I have been more or less computerless for nearly three-quarters of a year, …
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2020 Migration: Vamos a Zihuatanejo!
February 25 – March 26, 2020 As some of you may or may not know, this was the year we’d tentatively planned on leaving Mexico for environs further south. Ideas abounded – perhaps we’d cruise …
Continue reading2020 Migration: Costalegre Love
December 27, 2019 – February 24, 2020 This 2019-2020 sailing season has been a bit different for us – in more ways than one – we seem to be arriving earlier and spending longer periods …
Continue readingTaking the High Road, Part III: Saint Maries and a Spokane Drive-by
After blasting through Yellowstone, the Tetons, and Driggs, we headed to Saint Maries, Idaho, to get reacquainted with one of my best friends from my days at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in …
Continue readingTaking the High Road, Part I: Rainy Lake
The High Road? What we mean is that we took a meandering northern route from Michigan back to the west coast. When the time came to leave Michigan after six weeks, it was bittersweet – …
Continue readingMazatlán 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 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 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 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 …
Continue readingMagical Mobula Rays
We shared one of our favorite anchorages at Isla Danzante with the likes of She’s No Lady, JollyDogs, Mamala, and new friends to us, S/V The Answer. Lucky for us, our new friends had a …
Continue readingOff to Mazatlán
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re on our second lap here in Mexico, writing about places we’ve been and seen (and you’ve seen on the blog) last year. But we love these places, the people, …
Continue readingA Family Affair – in Mexico!
Fun, fun times with my biological family, including our old and new cuñadas (sisters-in-law), and our boat family! Of course, most of our boat family was already here in Barra, but mi familia de los …
Continue readingLa Cruz to Tenacatita to Barra
Well, it was a record for cruisers in La Cruz – which is known as one of the “Velcro” towns in Mexico – we made it outta there in only 4 days! It was a …
Continue readingTo the Mexican Mainland – Again
The girls came, they saw, and then departed La Paz in early January, so we figured we would, too. Actually, we have a plane to catch out of Manzanillo in early February, so we really …
Continue readingNew Year’s Joy
Well, the 2017 Christmas holiday with SNL, Adventurer, and Ripple was an absolute hoot, but the 2018 New Year’s holiday took the cake. Flea, Lea, and Stace arrived on Dec. 29 for 10 days of …
Continue readingHappy Holidays with Boat People
Spending Thanksgiving in the States meant not going home for Christmas due to travel expenses and logistics of leaving da boat again so soon. Our consolation was that Thad and Kristin of She’s No Lady …
Continue readingBack Down The Baja: Puerto Esco to La Paz
Entering our second year of cruising found us back in Puerto Escondido (after a month in the U.S.), rubbing elbows with a handful of cruisers who are in love with this area (and looking around, …
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