So what would the problem of the day be on this fine Mexican Friday? We woke up with no problems, everyone was in a good mood and ready for some breakfast. Seeing as how the fridge didn’t get very cold the night before because of the engine overheating issue we … Read More
Laundry and Garbage
I dove in today with scrapers in hand and found that it was amazing this boat moved at all when we left Barra. The bottom was a giant mass of growth. Hundreds of pounds of fist sized plants, quite beautiful actually, had attached themselves to our fifteen or so year-old … Read More
Tenacatita
Busy mornings filled with kids’ breakfast, play, and Lowe’s sporadic naps. Afternoons spent on the beach and in the restaurant. Nights playing on deck as the sun slips underneath the hills, one last kids’ meal, and bedtime stories. Today we hung out with friends we last saw in San Francisco. … Read More
A Challenge, But Good Too
This is why everyone cruising in Mexico has a dinghy with wheels. That’s two hundred and some odd pounds of dinghy there. No problem for Ali and I back in the day, but the four extra legs and feet aren’t really helping much right now. Life aboard is a bit … Read More
Beach Break
So I isolated the starter battery today and went to fire up the engine. Nothing. That battery, despite reading 12.2v couldn’t even begin to turn the engine over. Normally this would be evident easily enough because the starter battery and the house batteries should be isolated from each other, joined … Read More
Moving On
We motored out of Barra this morning in calm water and hot still air. It’s only a thirteen mile jaunt around the corner to Tenacatita so it should have been simple enough, but halfway I realized that the batteries weren’t charging. Scratch that, they were charging, but slowly. And while … Read More
Middle-Aged
Average life expectancy in Mexico is seventy-six years old. Meaning that I am officially middle-aged. It’s seventy-eight in the States so I’m thinking of moving back there for another year. This morning when Ouest woke up, Ali went in to her room and told her it was my birthday. I … Read More
Live and Learn
The other day I was in the taxi with Ouest when she pointed at something and said, “Papa, papa.” The taxi driver looked up surprised and asked, “Español?” Ouest does seem to hit all the right inflections on Mama and Papa to sound just like the little Mexican she is. … Read More
Liking Barra
Turns out we sort of jumped the gun on the big grocery stock up the other day as we still have no strong inclination to leave. We like Barra. It’s a nice local feeling town that is just the right size for walking from one end to the other with … Read More