Even with a new boat to fiddle around with it is tough to get too motivated in Puerto Vallarta’s August weather. It rains pretty hard most evenings/nights for a couple of hours, so quite often we’ll run the sails out to dry out and not get moldy while we sit … 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
Minnesota Meandering
One of my goals for our visits to Minnesota these days is to actually visit a few of the local sites that I’ve grown up around but never seen before. Vermillion Falls is a nice little spot on the Vermillion River, which empties into the Mississippi. It’s about twenty minutes … Read More
25 But Really 32
How lucky am I to still be able to picture perfectly in my mind what my wife was wearing the first time we kissed, even though it was 32 years ago? Green Hill-Murray High School (not our school) sweatpants and a white t-shirt. I was sitting on the floor of … Read More
Always Another Horizon
Winding down our time in Aruba. It’s been fun, but for the most part, this island really hasn’t fit our style very well. It’s a bit too busy (which I know sounds sort of ridiculous), it’s a bit too expensive, and it’s a bit too exposed to have a selection … Read More