Fish Tacos?

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Today was one of our beach days. Nothing was done all day other than playing on the beach and in the water. In the water takes on a whole new meaning in this strange bay. From our boat it is a hundred yards or so to water that is just … Read More

Puerto Balandra

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This morning we took off early, but still behind three other boats, headed north. Weather was predicted to be nothing. And since the channel we’d be going through is known to be an occasional boat buster with strong currents, funneling winds, and steep seas, we were as eager as the … Read More

Bay of **Dreams**

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A day in Bahia de los Muertos (Bay of the Dead), or as the real-estate developers like to call it instead, the Bay of Dreams. Lame, right?

Crossing the Sea of Cortez

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An uneventful night, which for us is always a good thing. Calm seas, no wind, and the kids slept all night. The only boat problem was the navigation lights crapping out on us after about three hours of use. I’m going to have to rewire all of those from start … Read More

Motor On

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Back on the water today. We slipped the lines early this morning and left at low tide to sneak out through the narrow breakwater and back out to open ocean. There has been about two weeks of unusually windy, cool weather so when a few days of calms—or at least … Read More

Sunday

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This is what happens to the freezer when we plug into shore power for a few weeks. That’s the freezer—the fridge looks the same. We thawed them both out yesterday so they’ll hopefully work better when we get underway again. Our freezer is so ridiculously large and deep that we’ve … Read More

Random Complaining

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I really dislike cleaning this boat. There are just way too many nooks and crannies. This morning I spent an hour washing it and when Ali got back with the kids she stepped aboard, looked around, and asked, “Did you clean the boat?” –Sigh– Okay, so I missed half of … Read More

Mazatlan Gold Coast

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After lunner today along the Gold Coast tourist section of town we took a walk inland through the neighborhoods. There is some money back there. There were a number of homes that took up entire city blocks as well as plenty of shabby little places tucked in and around corners. … Read More

New to Mexico?

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Ali was on the bus with Ouest today when a gringo guy said to her, “You must have just gotten here.” “Why do you say that?” “Because you’re so white,” he replied indicating both her and Ouest. “No, we’ve been here a while.” “You must stay inside.” “We actually live … Read More

A Gift

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Ali was taking Ouest out for her picnic today and asked where she wanted to go eat. “Aguafall.” Yeah, we call it a waterfall and she calls it an aguafall (though actually it is just a water fountain). Some of the Spanglish she invents is pretty unique but it makes … Read More

Silver and Gold

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There’s a small point of rocks at the beach that we normally go to and as the tide drops every day the locals roll up their sleeves and start digging underneath the rocks. I was curious so I asked one of them what he was looking for. “Plata y oro.” … Read More

Start to Finish

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In case you’ve never noticed, when we post pictures we almost always just post them in the order they happened that day. Basically when I’m editing photos I start at the beginning, flip through and say, “That’s a nice one, I’ll number it 1. Oh look, there’s number 2.” So … Read More