Sadly, my daughter Sarah was unable to come visit us because her Uncle Sam just couldn’t get around to delivering her passport. Expedited and overnighted be damned. So we’ll try again at the end of the semester. We toured a small family tequila distillery, Tequila Mama Lucia, in the town of Mezcales, fascinating how different…
I’ll start with the good stuff… As we were getting off a standing room only bus in the town of Bucerias, Theresa was in front of me. As soon as she stepped off, the door started to close. I threw my left arm out to hold it open and tried to hurry because that is…
We spent a week at anchor followed by a week plus in the marina to get some work done on the boat. Had the entire boat waxed and washed, wood stained, stainless polished and bottom cleaned. Had the UV protection on both sails replaced as the jib’s was in bad shape. As I have been…
This is a (funny?) little compilation of some of the hazards we have encountered while walking on sidewalks and various pedestrian corridors in Mexico. Every business and house does whatever they want in front of their property as far as a sidewalk, if any. Most are not at the same level as the one next…
Since our last post, we stopped in Chacala, a lovely little town. Spent several days exploring the town, hanging out with other cruisers and hiked the nearby volcano. Great hike/views and the ocean side of the volcano is a very steep guanabana (soursop) orchard. The native people of this area, Huichol, are known for their…
We spent a couple of days anchored in this large bay. There is a port and anchorage up the river but we arrived at low tide and would not have been able to get there. Probably for the best, as the bugs are extraordinary at dusk and dawn in this area of vast, dense, wet…
We tried to stop at a roadstead anchorage (a spot with just a little protection) about 40 miles south of Mazatlan yesterday afternoon but it was just way too rough so we continued on and made it an overnight to the island of Isla Maria Isabella about 90 miles south of Mazatlan. It has some…
We took our bikes on a 20 mile ride the length of Mazatlan. The malecón has bike lanes almost the entire length of the city. Saw cliff divers, took in the view from a rooftop hotel bar, saw one of the ice caves on “icebox hill“ where the city stored ice brought in from San…
So to catch up real quick, we went to Glendora, California for Christmas with the Latasa‘s and then New Year’s/Oma‘s birthday in Michigan. Had a great time with all and even had a lot of snow when we first got to Mi. American Airlines managed to have all three connecting flights into Michigan arrive late…
Went to shore at our anchorage on Isla Partida and walked across the island through the mangroves with friends from MV Tango. Coincidentally, SV Delos posted a great video of the same hike on their YouTube channel this week. We were going to spend another night out in one of the long protected bays of…
