Woke up to more strong southerlies today, decided to stay put, and then watched two other boats motor out straight into it. The first was a charter boat and all I could think was that those boats must take a terrific beating being sailed by people that have no choice … Read More
Perfect Bay
I don’t know what is going on the past couple of days, but we just can not seem to get the weather we’ve been expecting. We woke up to calm this morning, motored out in four knots, rounded the point into twelve knots, continued barreling headlong into twenty knots, and … Read More
Rolling, rolling, rolling
That was easily our worst anchorage to date. Rolling, rolling, rolling, all night long. Sun up, flat. We left first thing in the morning with the promise of just five knots of wind on the nose. Two hours later we were plunging headlong into twenty-five knots. Not sure what the … Read More
Fifteen Years Ago
Fifteen years ago today Ali and I walked down the aisle. I had graduated college three months earlier and was working at Beneficial, a loan agency designed simply to make the poor even more so by wrapping up all of their 29% credit card debt into one 35% loan. Looking … Read More
Big Dinghy
Pretty lazy days around here lately. We’ve slipped right into a routine of beach in the morning, pool and lunner in the afternoon, and store and beach again in the evening. Not a bad gig really. We thought we were out of the woods then I woke up today with … Read More
A Beach of Their Own
Nap times were completely alternating today so the kids each got their own time on the beach.
Mama’s Helper
I took another look around today and decided that this is actually a pretty beautiful spot. If you ignore the resort in the scene the rest of the place is full of menacing looking dinosaur islands, desert somehow full of green, and the ever encroaching Sierra Gigantes. They are right … Read More
I Got This
This afternoon we went in to Loreto to make another grocery store run before what we hope will actually be us leaving Puerto Escondido. Going to town is nothing to be taken lightly here with the five-hundred peso taxi trip. About the only thing of note from our trip today … Read More