Back at the dock at Tijax Marina after just a few days out I set to work on getting our “shakedown” cruise failures squared away, while the rest of the family took in some more time with friends. A big group headed off for a day of ziplining. I e-mailed … Read More
Quiet Rio Days
It’s been a pretty quiet couple of weeks. We’re finishing up small projects as we wait for hurricane season to draw to a close. Heading out soon, but remembering that there also isn’t any big rush. Just take it easy, enjoy life and friends, and head off when we’re ready. … Read More
Mixing Work and Play
Right now the boats here in the Rio are beginning to come to life again as everyone returns from wherever they spent the hurricane season. We are wrapping up a few projects ourselves, and should be ready to cruise on again soon. One of the projects on our list this … Read More
Quiet Day in Fronteras
We’ve had a knack lately for getting caught in traffic jams. Here we were the first car behind the beauty queen parade. Another day we were the first car behind a walking funeral. They’ve got a bit of everything in the tiendas along main street. Hell, they’ve even got my … Read More
Around the Rio Dulce
We visited the hot water springs waterfall a couple months ago, but rainy season has kicked in now so we wanted to check it out again. The water was deeper this time so we could actually swim around, and there was virtually nobody else around. All of the water up … Read More
Las Conchas Waterfalls
On the way home from Tikal we found another off the beaten path place to punish our rental car with. Las Conchas is a series of beautiful waterfalls that during the dry season people can jump off the top of. Unfortunately we showed up at the height of rainy season … Read More
Guatemala Colors
I love how nobody but us pays any attention to a herd of goats walking right down the sidewalk in Guatemala City. This is outside the main Post Office where we had just been informed they didn’t have any stamps. It’s all about the wonderful colors splashed around the city. … Read More
The Rio to the City
The town of Fronteras, Rio Dulce, may not be pretty, but if you need something there’s a fair chance that you’ll find it somewhere along the road. Food, fruit, banks, hardware, and even a sizable marine store. Just don’t step into the road without looking both ways. Remember the 70s … Read More
Horsing Around
Varnish work continues around the boat, and we continue to go about life in the middle of it all. Though we are leaving soon for inland travels, we wanted to be around while work got going on Bumuzzle. The marina is across a small bay from the main part of … Read More
Summer Season Prep
The best part of sailing around the world on the route and timeline that we took was that we were always moving. We took a few months off in New Zealand, but that hardly felt like we were waiting out a hurricane/cyclone season since we had so much to see … Read More
Rivers and Rain
We got together with a few friends and headed up to the Hot Spring Waterfall. We walked down the trail past women doing their laundry in the river and came to this pretty waterfall. Not all that remarkable on the face of it, but the water up above is fed … Read More
Rio Dulce Life
Our new digs for hurricane season. It’s a small eco-resort with maybe twenty-five slips and a bunch of small bungalows. There isn’t much of a breeze here, so the cleaning ladies just drape their daily laundry all over the docks. We went right to work washing and drying everything out … Read More
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