This is home for the moment as we wait patiently for hurricane season to fade away. We’re sitting just a few slips away from where we brought Lowe home from the hospital on Bumfuzzle 2. It’s funny how hurricane holes can become like a second home for cruisers. It’s a … Read More
Sayulita Sting
Spending an afternoon in one of our favorite places. We brought along the kids’ friends from the boat next door. The four of them have been having some great times together. With this lifestyle it’s not every day that they get not one, but two good friends to hang with … Read More
Mismaloya
We spent this weekend trotting all over the Puerto Vallarta area. Saturday morning started with breakfast in Bucerias, followed by a walk around La Cruz and the marina there, and ended with the afternoon spent in Punta Mita. Sunday we drove south to Mismaloya. Ali and I always enjoy this … Read More
You Only Turn Once Once
Lowe turned eleven (once) the other day. He was unimpressed with the number. Apparently it falls in a gray area, somewhere between the cool numbers, ten and twelve. I’m impressed with eleven, though. It’s fun having him grow up, but still be a boy. Lowe is the family goofball, a … Read More
Slowly Settling In
We decided to spend the day up in Sayulita to revisit some of our old haunts there. Right as the road turns from a two-lane highway into a one-lane jungle track the rain started to fall. Twenty minutes later, as we turned into town, we knew the day was shot. … Read More
Getting Situated
Two days after I arrived, Ali and the kids flew down from Minnesota with everything we own. We had a porter wheeling a cart with six big plastic bins balanced precariously over his head as we walked out to the car I had rented. It’s just a mid-size normal car, … Read More
All Aboard Number Four
I can’t find the exact quote, but somewhere along the way, on Bumfuzzle #1, I said that one thing I was certain of was that we would never own another boat. Another quote, “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.” Roberto Assagioli Which, I suppose, is how we find … Read More
Back from Camp
Obviously, it’s been quiet here the past month. Ali and I have been busy, going out just about every day with friends or family, but doing so without the kids. They’ve been off at camp. Ouest for a full four weeks, and Lowe for two. On top of that, it’s … Read More
An Empty Nest
We had a few more days around the house with Lowe before he took off to the boy’s camp across the lake from Ouest. Here he is hanging out with his best buddy here at Grandma’s house, Joey. Ali, Katy, Toni, and yet another dog whose name I’ll never remember. … Read More
Great Race Revisited
Ouest is away at summer camp, and Lowe doesn’t start his until two weeks after her, meaning that for a little while it’s just three of us. Of course, we’ve been checking the mail every day, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it took ten days to get our first letter. It was … Read More
Off to Camp
Minnesota Twins games are a long running tradition. I’ve seen them playing through the years at the old Met Stadium, the Metrodome, and for the past few years out at Target Field. This place is by far the best of the bunch. We were all bummed by the forecast for … Read More