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Just sort of taking it easy around La Paz the past couple of days. The boat is washed, the water is full, the propane is filled up, a few loads of laundry are done, and we’re learning our way around this part of town. We really like this marina. Marina … Read More

I’m not sure what sparked it but I thought today of the first time I ever went to sea. The details are a bit sketchy as I haven’t taken the time to ask Mom to fill me in, but I remember most of it. I was maybe seven years old … Read More

Back in La Paz a month after we left. Ali says it felt like longer, which I can’t necessarily take as a good thing. It’s fair to say that we’re both looking forward to next season with Lowe a little older. All the naps, and the crawling, make for some … Read More

Ali was online checking our banking today when she discovered that somebody had spent the day taking a grand or so out of our checking account. It’s getting a little sickening just how often this is happening to us down here. This is the second time in six months and … Read More

We should be gone tomorrow, but things never work out that way. There is still plenty to do, including buying food and diesel. Without those we aren’t going anywhere. Anyway, what does one more day matter? We’ve been looking through the guide book a little bit and it seems to … Read More

Friends of ours discovered the other day that there is an agent in town that can renew a tourist visa for another six months for just a hundred pesos. Brilliant. Problem solved. We may never have to return to the States. Or at least until my cravings for a Grilled … Read More

The two guys sanding and scraping our boat’s varnish off finished up today. They looked defeated. I swear when they quoted me a price they hadn’t really taken a good look at the boat. That cockpit coaming was a killer. Anyway, two guys, and roughly thirty man hours later our … Read More

Spent a couple of hours at Balandra beach today. A nice white sand beach with beautiful shallow baby blue water for the kids to play in. I took Lowe out, set him down in ankle deep water, and watched as he tore around in it until we finally took him … Read More