Find Sand Dollar Papa

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Motored out of Puerto Escondido today and just a few hours north to Puerto Ballandra where we enjoyed a few days earlier this month. For hours Ouest repeated the phrase, “Me want you to find a sand dollar, Papa.” Cute at first, annoying as hell after number one hundred. Fortunately … Read More

Lowe 21-Months, Ouest 41-Months

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Another month zips past. Ouest’s Spanish is improving greatly. She knows dozens of words and is using them pretty regularly. And of course her swimming continues to improve daily. She is to the point now that we let her go out swimming to the deep stuff by herself. We watch … Read More

Get Off Your Boat

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Puerto Ballandra, Baja California Sur, Mexico. There are about ten boats here in the bay at the moment which has us scratching our heads because we never see anybody else go ashore. In the last two days we’ve seen one guy. We’re trying to remember if we sat around on … Read More

Slow Life

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Ouest and I snuck out during Lowe’s nap today for a hike and a picnic. The hill we attempted to summit was made up of rock that crumbled upon being touched. So much so that we had to give up on reaching the top and settle for a picnic at … Read More

Starfish

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Motored a couple of hours north to Puerto Ballandra today. Weather has been incredibly calm the past couple of weeks and we’re looking at another week or more of it. It’s great. Even better than the calm weather is the cool weather. We’re still using a down comforter at night. … Read More

Puerto Balandra—Again

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We’ve come to the conclusion that the thing that we dislike the most about cruising in this boat—aside from the fact that it is missing a hull—is the refrigerator situation. Needing to run the engine for an hour or more twice a day in order to keep the fridge cool … Read More

Baja Brrr Agua

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We moved on first thing this morning after another peaceful night broken only by a thirty minute gusting of twenty knots or so shortly after dark. I know Baja is notorious for these, usually much stronger, and that they have a name that completely escapes me at the moment. While … Read More