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
Hola 2012!
As 2011 comes to a close I sit here at six a.m. listening to some sort of techno trance music playing on a nearby beach loud enough to mistake it coming out of speakers on our own boat. Without that pesky sleep in the way I’m able to think about … Read More
Everything Back
Back on the boat in Barra de Navidad lagoon. It took four trips in the dinghy to get everything back onboard. Cribs, bouncy chairs, so many kids clothes they couldn’t wear them all in a month, new toys, a bike, a pool, and the list goes on. Don’t think I’d … Read More
Sun Bathing
We said goodbye to the last of the grandparents today, leaving just the four of us once again. We move back aboard tomorrow and will set off again whenever the mood strikes. Though I kind of like the Barra de Navidad lagoon and wouldn’t mind spending a couple of days … Read More