Ready to Move

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Ready to move on again. We’ve spent a week here in the marina, done a wee bit of boat work, all of our laundry, bought a few groceries, spent some time bumming around town, and now we’re ready to get back out on the water. Ali’s a little nervous about … Read More

Lowe 8-Months, Ouest 28-Months

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Lolo. I’m sorry, but that’s what you are called nowadays. We smile just about every time Ouest says it. “LowLoooooow.” And you smile too. You love your sister and scramble for her whenever she comes within reach. While she might not return the greeting with the same enthusiasm you show … Read More

Getting Around

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Today we went back to Old Town but this time to the more sanitized version around the main plazas and the cathedral. We walked around a bit then sat down and ate. Afterwards Ali said to me, “I’m not feeling it today.” Exactly what I’d been thinking. The rougher authentic … Read More

Driving Around

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Yesterday during Lowe’s morning nap Ouest and I jumped on a bus and headed to Walmart. Actually to Autozone which is always in the Walmart parking lot. The bus ride there was uneventful, maybe thirty minutes. We did our shopping and then flagged down the next bus with our name … Read More

Old Town Maz

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Days like today remind us why we both like to cruise and to find ourselves constantly “living” in different places. We love getting out and just wandering new places, seeing what we can discover along the way. Of course now we do it with kids so we find ourselves discovering … Read More

Clean Up

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Typical marina day. Wash the boat, take Ouest out on her bike, explore the neighborhood. Not much going on really. We slept soundly thanks to the still boat. I noticed that a lot of boats in this marina are bobbing in their slips with one, maybe two, small fenders hanging … Read More

Marina, Oh Marina

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Well the anchorage at Isla Isabela is pretty terrible, and with a day of light headwinds promised we decided to just up anchor in the middle of the night and head out. The alarm went off at midnight, we fired up the engine and waited to see if the kids … Read More

Calm

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Forty miles of easy motorsailing, emphasis on motor, and we are anchored off of Isla Isabela, a bird sanctuary. Going north in this area of the Pacific tends to not work so well as far as the sailing goes. The winds are light and from the northwest pretty consistently. And … Read More

Orange Scissors

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We loaded up the crew, grabbed all the dirty laundry we could carry, and headed back to town today. Apparently it’s Easter week, Semana Santa, and things around here are hopping to say the least. There are thousands of Mexicans on the beaches and I have yet to see another … Read More

Mahhhhhngo

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Yesterday I made a couple of runs in to town for diesel. Gauging our fuel consumption is proving impossible for me for two reasons. Number one is that I can’t fill up the starboard tank fully because there is a hole in the top of the tank and if I … Read More

Trip to Town

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We went in to town today with a short list of things to do. A small load of laundry with nothing but kids clothes and pajamas. Milk. A few gallons of diesel. Lunner. We also wanted to stop by the marina to see about going in and getting fuel. The … Read More

Will Need Showers

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A day at the beach with friends, loads of locals, a decent fish shack with cold beer, and more fine sand than two parents of young children could ever have imagined. While Ouest practiced somersaults on the beach, Lowe practiced shoving fists full of sand into his mouth.