Unfriendly Baja

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We weren’t enthralled with San Evaristo, mainly because the beach was kind of skanky with fish carcasses all over the place. Swimming is pretty important these days. It’s hot and the kids are loving the water. So after a nice quiet night at anchor we pulled it up and motored … Read More

Nice and Close

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Took a hike with Ouest again this morning, this time up a different ridge. She spent most of the time searching for good rocks to throw. I’d find her a level spot to stand and then sit back while she spent ten minutes doing what would have taken erosion a … Read More

EELLLLLL!

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A good night of sleep probably isn’t easy in any household with two young kids, but on a boat it can be nearly impossible. So we are even more happy than normal when there is no wind at night. The boat is so quiet we could easily forget where we … Read More

Looking for Shelter

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The Coromuel kicked in last night as soon as the lights went out and within a couple of hours we were bow bouncing through the waves. Ouest, in the most uncomfortable spot on the boat, the bow, slept straight through it. The rest of us didn’t fare so well. In … Read More

Full Days

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Ouest got a squirt gun today. It’s the only gun in the house and she really has no concept of violence or what a gun is used for, but she figured out right quick how to point that thing at the rest of us and squirt until we squealed. We … Read More

And We Are Off

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While Lowe napped this morning Ouest and I ran out for one last grocery grab. Not much, just some baby food, a huge pile of strawberries, and some cheese. We also topped up our wireless internet card, though I suspect we’re going to find places to use it few and … Read More

Moms

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Ali was online checking our banking today when she discovered that somebody had spent the day taking a grand or so out of our checking account. It’s getting a little sickening just how often this is happening to us down here. This is the second time in six months and … Read More

All Attitude

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We should be gone tomorrow, but things never work out that way. There is still plenty to do, including buying food and diesel. Without those we aren’t going anywhere. Anyway, what does one more day matter? We’ve been looking through the guide book a little bit and it seems to … Read More

Mmm Taco Bell

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Friends of ours discovered the other day that there is an agent in town that can renew a tourist visa for another six months for just a hundred pesos. Brilliant. Problem solved. We may never have to return to the States. Or at least until my cravings for a Grilled … Read More

Walmart Check

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The two guys sanding and scraping our boat’s varnish off finished up today. They looked defeated. I swear when they quoted me a price they hadn’t really taken a good look at the boat. That cockpit coaming was a killer. Anyway, two guys, and roughly thirty man hours later our … Read More

Need a Tent

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Spent a couple of hours at Balandra beach today. A nice white sand beach with beautiful shallow baby blue water for the kids to play in. I took Lowe out, set him down in ankle deep water, and watched as he tore around in it until we finally took him … Read More

Not Now

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Ouest refuses to allow us to put anything in her hair. No barrettes, no headbands, no ponytails, nothing. And with her hair getting as unruly as it is she needs something in it more than ever. So with a classic parental threatening voice we said, “If you don’t let us … Read More