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La La La La Cruz, Mexico (where we lived this past March :) )

August 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · First Mates, Mexico, Preparing for the trip, shoe-cruising, The beginning

Finally good enough internet to upload and post videos!! Here’s some video we took of La Cruz, Mexico when we were there back in March of this year, prior to our crossing.  Pay no attention to my horrible non-editing 🙂

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Better (thank you!) late than (thank you!) never…

August 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Cheers!!, Debauchery, Fun Stuff, Mexico, Somebody likes us

Not that the Gees will be surprised or anything at my tardiness, but here’s a BIG THANK YOU to some awesome awesome friends, a few months late, for treating us to drinks in Mexico 🙂 ******************************************************************************************** AND another thank you to Mark M. and his wife for also treating us to a fun evening out […]

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The dolphin that wouldn’t swim with me (in Tenacatita)

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Funny, Life on the Boat, Mexico

“Oh, yeah, Tenacatita is great,” Louis says.  “It’s a beautiful little anchorage and if you swim out from your boat a ways, the dolphins will come swim with you.” My eyes light up.  “REALLY?!” “Yes!” Laura smiles.  “We had two bottlenose dolphins come right up to us when we were there.” A few days later, […]

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Mexico Miscellaneous

April 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Mexico, Random Thoughts

– As soon as we pulled into the La Cruz Marina last week, we started hearing this weird crackling noise, almost like it was starting to rain.  As we lay in bed that night, we realized it was thousands of tiny sea monsters either 1) eating away at stuff growing on our hull and/or 2) […]

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Prepping for the South Pacific & Pacific Crossing – Provisioning Pt.1

April 8th, 2010 · 10 Comments · About Money, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Passages

I still plan to add some more stuff about our spring break down in Tenacatita, but right now, getting ready for our Pacific Crossing is making me really really excited, so that’s what I’m going to write about…. While in La Cruz, we met an awesome younger couple – Mike & Hyo – aboard IO.  […]

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Finally, a taste of Paradise – Bahia Tenacatita, MX

April 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Beautiful, Mexico, Passages

Tenacatita is the first place we’ve been to, so far, where my first thought was NOT to get online and check email or facebook or post a blog.  No, instead, my first thoughts were – WOW.  THIS is what cruising is about…  why didn’t we come here first?!?!!? Bahia Tenacatita is BEAUTIFUL.  Compared to all […]

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Spring Break

March 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Mexico, The Crew

Jon, one of the other boat owners, arrived from Colorado on Saturday to spend his spring break with us.  He showed up with two enormous bags of goodies for Matt and the boat.  It was like Christmas… if you count windvane parts, new hose, and mast track cars as presents.  But, Jon brought some *truly* […]

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God bless the internet

March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Fellow Cruisers, Fun Stuff, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Somebody likes us, The beginning

For those who may not know, Matt and I met online.  Yes, we are one of the (now) many couples who successfully negotiated through all the lies and faked pictures, were lucky enough to avoid the horror stories, and found the love of our life on WWW.MATCH.COM. Were it not the for the internet, I […]

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Our First Stowaways

March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Famous Firsts, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Passages

On the way down from Ensenada, we didn’t see any whales or dolphins (argh!! wtf?!?!?), but we had these funky little squids wash up on deck.  If I had been thinking quickly, I would have snatched them up and thrown them on a hook to use as fish bait.  Alas, they dried up before my […]

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Maybe this is a little TOO honest….. FULL DISCLOSURE: one month in

March 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Boat Work, Introspection, Life Lessons, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Oh Crap., Stupid Ideas, The beginning, This sucks

“What if I told you, Karen , that you couldn’t have anymore of anything… No more friends, no more money, no more anything, until you first got happy with what you have? Actually Karen , I’d never tell you that, because frankly, it’s not always true. But, if you’re not happy with what you’ve got, […]

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