Our little Christmas tree, double duty as a rosemary plant for yummy rosemary potatoes!

Max, Cory and Enzo from Into the Mystic in Cabo. Leaving for LaPaz

Fun playing tourist and watching marimba players perform, too much fun.

12/17/17

the coast. We made a 2 day passage to Turtle Bay arriving well after dark, but is is a large bay and we have been there before so felt comfortable anchoring at night. Using the hand held radio (walkie talkie) was great and we anchored with no problems. First day we relaxed a bit, second day we went into town to meet with another cruiser to get weather info and go to the internet cafe. Turtle Bay is a pretty small town and the internet closed at 3pm, we arrived at 3:30. I was so disappointed, REALLY wanted to check in with our family. On the beach another cruiser, Jamie, offered to let me use his phone to call my Dad and check in with him. We headed out to their boat and made a quick call, and had a short visit. Jamie and Elaine were so nice and Elaine is a former harbormaster as well, so we felt we could sit and talk with them all night! We agreed the next time we saw each other we would spend some time comparing stories.

We headed to Bahia Santa Maria and arrived early in the day and relaxed. It was pretty windy but the boat always points into the wind and so the dodger affords great protection. We just sat and grinned all day at being in Santa Maria and relaxing! I made some great bread too!

We had planned on staying for a few days, but the next morning 3 of the 4 boats in the bay started preparing to leave. We checked with them and they said the weather was great for heading South for the next 2 days. We looked at each other and said, lets go! In an hour we were heading out of the bay.

We had planned 43 hours to get to Cabo, but we such great winds, it only took 36 hours. We arrived tired but happy at 10pm and anchored right off the beach.

We took a slip the next day and took advantage of our prime location to do the tourist thing last night. We have not been fans of Cabo, but this time we are really having a nice time.

Will spend one more day here in the marina doing laundry and preparing, then head out Tues or Wed.

So nice to relax and have internet to say hi to the family!

 Shopping at Los Globos.

Marcus works while seal in the background sleeps

 Siesta time

Litte crab greeted us in Bahia Santa Maria, appeared to be cleaing the hull.  Thanks!

Casa de cambio.  Trying to get some peso's before we head to the frontier known as Baja California.  It is 10:30 am and no one is here (note the Horas).  Finally gave up and went with little cash.  Ahhh Mexico time.

Sunrise 

Our slip is right under the HUGE Mexican flag.

12/5/12

A little catching up to do, so much going on. I had computer issues and could not open my documents; all this came to a head the day before we were leaving San Diego. My hero that day was John who tried to help me with my computer woes. I was at Starbucks specifically to get Internet, and my computer would not connect. John walked me through every solution he could think of but nothing helped. It seemed at if the servers at Starbucks was down, but that is impossible, it's STARBUCKS. Everyone else in the store seemed to be online. Then I found out the server was down . . . It wasn't my computer. WHEW. THANK YOU JOHN!! (Prompt Computer Solutions)

I sure couldn't like WRITE with a pen and paper or anything now could I? So now I have Internet access and can open all my documents and all is well in my world once again.

The day before a passage I always get a little anxious anyway, so this didn't help. The computer is my link with family and friends.

So nice smooth trip to Ensenada and lots of running around doing errands eating out, and provisioning. Ensenada is a great town, and it is always hard to leave as there is so much to see and do. The winds are up for the next two days (fingers crossed) and so we are heading south once again. May shoot all the way down to Turtle bay, a roughly 52 hour passage. We could break the trip up into smaller ones, but it looks like we only have a couple of days of good wind and sailing is not only nicer it also saves diesel.

My traditional Ensenada haircut!  Stella and her daughter!

San Diego

Thanksgiving we rented a car and surprised our family on Thankgiving Day.  Here are a few of the reasons we are thankful!

 Arrived San Diego 3am in a pea soup fog, just followed the chartplotter and lights. 
Navy ships abound here.

 Row row row your boat!

 Police needed to inspect the boat before we can anchor.

I like to row, Marcus prefers the motor.