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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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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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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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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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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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