Sometimes the days just go by too quickly. Here in Punta Mita right now we’ve got a really cool group of friends that we’re not eager to leave behind. Ouest has made friends with a couple of college age girls that she calls her “grande girlfriends” while she scans the beach for them. “Mama, where is my grande girlfriend?”
There are also lots of kids under ten running around with parents born in the same decade as us. So it isn’t even the fact that there are kids for Ouest and Lowe to play with as it is that there are actual cruisers in our age bracket around for us to hang out with. This is pretty rare for us to come across in our cruising life, and really seems to be specific to Mexican cruising.
Anyway, the days just come and go before we know it here—tomorrow we move on.
This morning we met a Bum friend for breakfast on the beach. The kids were amazing—playing, eating, and generally just enjoying themselves. Then some other friends showed up to paddle out and try and catch a couple small waves. That was it, both Ouest and Lowe were going in. Ouest’s little surfer dude, Teddy, helped her climb up on the board and I pushed them into a couple of waves. Pretty awesome seeing all these little kids (there was another one-year-old too) out there loving the water this much. Just another one of those “this is what it’s all about” moments.
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Sweet! Best day in a while and for the right reasons. Cheers!
Sunrise and sunset photos come and go. All are beautiful. But your sunrise (or sunset) photo is over the top. Wow. It is so beautiful it makes me want to drop everything and go get on a boat. All the convenient comforts and readily available electronic entertainment pale in comparison to waking up to a sight like that.
That sunset picture is amazing … love the orange colors! Sounds like a great place to hang out. If only we could have grown up like your kids are, or at least given that life to our daughter. Seeing pics of your kids experiencing the world … what a great gift you’re giving them!
I love these posts – thanks!
Yeah! There you go! They are going to catch the stoke and be surfing all up and down the coast of Mexico before you know it!!
Yes indeed, lucky, happy kids born at the right time and place. What a gift for them to grow up outside the brainwashed suburbs and clueless mass media culture of 90% of the USA. It’s like an inoculation against stupidity and mediocrity, when they’re older they will have some perspective to understand and evaluate what’s meaningful and of value in life and the USA. And many golden memories.
Beautiful pictures!!! Start thinking about where you’ll lash the surfboards to the deck.
Nice site and your photos are great. My boat “Tumbleweed” is the one in the sunrise picture, what a nice surprise it was to see it on here. Best of luck with your ongoing adventure.
Cool that you spotted Tumbleweed on here. Glad to have you with us.
That’s not Tumbleweed the Ingrid 38 for sale in Mexico, is it? We’ve been looking at that boat online for a while…