A New Slideshow!

Here is a bunch of new pictures... I'm currently sitting in a coffeeshop waiting for a Skype call and Leonard is out surfing - his new favorite thing!

Hope you'll enjoy our new batch of pictures.

A New Slideshow!

We've been gone for... how long now? Yesterday we dropped anchor in Bahia Tortugas (Turtle Bay) which is half way between San Diego and Cabo San Lucas. Last year the couple of days leading to our arrival at this spot was beyond frightening with horrendous storms and a fuel shortage under head-on winds of 30 knots. Not fun. But this year it's been perfectly perfect!

I wanted to share with you a first batch of pics with this slideshow. Hope you enjoy!

An Interesting Week

As we read other people's blogs on their travels, we notice one major difference between our experience and theirs: they're socializing, connecting and making friends. And us? We're naming seals (which by the way are SEA LIONS and not as we guessed SEALS how do we know it? Our NEW FRIENDS told us!!!)

Yes! We made contact! I now have a sense of what it will be like the first time people on earth come into communication with space-peeps! Giddy! We've been chillin' with our peeps & going out! GOING OUT!  Two nights in a row at that. Late. Very late. Friday night we (finally) went to a really great local concert. And she sang in Spanish!

My ongoing joke has been "I don't want to go and listen to some old white fat dude belting it out to Hotel California." But long story short...

We made friends! Yes! Indeed we did! And they joined us on a trip! Yes they did! And oh they were prepared... They showed up with a canoe (like a funky fold up kind), fishing equipment (and a SPEARGUN), food, booze, spices (SPICES!), musical instruments (A BANJO - Ayyeee!), snorkeling equipment and stories galore to keep us fully animated til we couldn't keep our eyes open!

Scott (the Outward Bound type of dude) and Kay (who grew up in a commune - how cool is that?) joined us for one full week touring Espiritu Santos and Los Islotes. During this trip we met Damon and Desiree from the Gaya (Gaïa?) and their uber cool steel boat with the funky red sails pictured above. These guys have been living aboard their boat for 9 years. NINE YEARS! They've sailed to Hawaii and the Ecuador making us look like stay-at-home scaredycats!

So... today we hugged and waved them goodbye as they left for their long journey back home to San Fran. And we are now faced with so much space on our small boat! And wondering: could we ever again host people on our boat? It's really not an easy thing to do to bring OTHERS aboard!  Even Desiree who's been doing this for 9 years mentioned how they rarely ever do this...

Oh and shall I mention where we're at in repairs?

1. Fuel injector lift pump (or something like that, as if I know what I'm talking about!) in our motor - broken.
2. High pressure hose for water maker - tore.
3. Bird poop on deck - yes. A lot!
4. Headache - now on day 3. Ugh.
5. That's it. For now. Knock on wood (ouch that hurt my head).

Hasta luego mi amigos y amigas!

Dive! Dive! Dive!

Why didn't I start diving earlier? This is such a fun sport! Can I even call it a sport? To be quite honest, the hardest part of diving is the before and after (getting the gear ready and rinsing it all out with fresh water) because believe me when I tell you - it's by far the most relaxing "sport" I've ever engaged myself in!

I'm still limiting myself a lot in internet usage so these are only the highlights, there are plenty more pictures on my hard drive!

But did you see that close-up? We can see the whiskers of that seal he's so close! And no, I wasn't using the zoom! Did we see Squeaky again? Not quite sure... but I do think he was among those who teased us and came real close (enough to bite). Once we were done with the dive and were just bobbing above one little dude popped up, touched his nose to Leonard's ear and dove back down. It was hilarious! But by then Leonard was quite fed up with how "aggressive" our friends were.  Hahahaha!

Such fun...

Yay! More Pictures!

These are NEW pictures... Most are from our recent trip to local islands. We saw some really cool stuff! Sorry about that pig head to start off. Or to think again - I'm not sorry. I thought it was really freaky to see that head sitting in an open meat counter. Can we say that? A sitting head? And the dudes got a kick out of watching some little gringa snap a quick shot of their meat.

That came out all wrong.

But you'll see lot's of bones on this slideshow. I think a good deal of those bones are whale bones. Really cool. And skulls. Probably leftovers from the meat market displaying the heads... Who knows.

Its a new year and we're getting more and more thrilled by this little journey!

Cheers! And like we say in this neck of the woods: hasta luego!

Sidewalks.

I've learned with time and experience to ALWAYS pay extra attention to what I'm doing, or more specifically where I am going and how I put my foot down in the city of La Paz.

The sidewalks are insane. To repeat a famous and over done cliché "You never know what you're gonna get!" Sudden holes, drops of over 5 feet to the street, cracks, change of levels or amazingly beautiful tiles. The sidewalks of La Paz have everything to offer to amaze you or have you tripping over yourself!

The majority of these pics were taken in 2 days. Not that we had to walk all over town to find the best shots, they are all over the place. Just 2 days of running to the market and doing our errands...

Slideshow!

Please enjoy this first batch of pictures! We'll be updating and adding pictures, movies, stories, even recipes (why not?)