What Do You Do?

Full Moon Over La Paz

People often ask: "What do you guys do over there?"  The majority of our time is not spent sailing, or actually boating around if you want.

I'd say the majority of our time is spent either just sitting, reading, listening to the music or Howard Stern on Sirius, and our evenings are spent watching our favorite shows (right now that would be Shameless, Walking Dead and Californication).


One of our new activities is to just sit and talk with or without music in the background. We're actually talking! We never really talked during our racing years. Our lives were consumed with racing. But now we talk about our dreams, about our future or about certain feelings of hopelesness we often feel in regards to societal change.

I know right? How byzarre!

And then there are the attempts at being social. We're discovering really cool places for live music and art in general. We do our best to stay away from the mainstream popular gringo places "where the Americans hang out to listen to real rock & roll" (barf) and try to find locals singing and strumming the guitar.

We have errands. Often. As I've mentioned before, everything can pretty much be found in Mexico, but most often the things we want and find are in smaller quantities. There are no mega packs of 40 AA batteries here... Four to six MAX to a package! Everything is like that. No super family pack sizes, and that forces us to return to the stores often and regularly.

Which means a dinghy ride to the public dock for walking around town, or to the Marina de La Paz where our bikes are locked up. I think its more about a new lifestyle than anything else. As soon as we spot a dolphin in our midst we stop whatever we're doing (or not doing) and just watch them.

Maybe we're becoming a little bit more zen?