Mazatlan

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Staying in hotels is for suckers. For the price of one hotel room we’ve got ourselves a three-bedroom condo with private elevator, pool, and about anything else you can think of. Best of all though is the location just a few blocks down the malecon from the park and Old … Read More

Smokey in a Sombrero

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About two months ago we booked a trip for my mom to come down for Christmas. Doing the math we decided we’d be in Mazatlan. Our math was wrong. So instead of sailing up, we rented a car and piled our crap in for the 300 mile roadtrip. And oh … Read More

The Man

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Ouest was helping me with boat work today. I was attempting to fix one of the running lights and was messing around with the wiring in the chain locker. She sat on her bed and handed me tools and bits of wiring. She even got to the point that out … Read More

Hungry in Mazatlan

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One nice thing about Mazatlan is their bus service. It’s super easy to get anywhere we need to go, and today we needed to go back to the playground. Both of the kids needed the exercise, especially Lowe, who we are having the hardest time finding non-concrete places to crawl … Read More

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