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Entries Tagged as 'Mexico'

And on the fourth day, she rested.

March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · First Mates, Funny, Mexico, Our Route

Today was the first day since we arrived in La Cruz that we had no plans, decided to do NO WORK on the boat, and had no reason to be anywhere other than where we were at the moment.  And oh, it was BLISS. We left the boat around 11 and headed straight to the […]

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Wind and waves and …. remind me again why we’re doing this??!?!

March 15th, 2010 · 7 Comments · First Mates, Introspection, Learning to Sail, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Our Route, Passages, The beginning

Matt and I have read books and articles about cruising and have tried to talk to those who have gone before us.  I have searched the web for cruising blogs and forums and Matt has consulted various websites on his own.  Not one of the resources we’ve come across has ever mentioned how horribly uncomfortable […]

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Bound for Mexico!

March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fellow Cruisers, Mexico, The beginning

We stayed an extra day to visit with some Bay Area friends on “Mystic” who left SF just a few days before us and then ended up a few days behind us.  They finally caught up with us here in SD so we had dinner together last night and enjoyed some time with them this […]

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