Departing beautiful San Carlos Our last leg of our sabbatical adventure has arrived. We returned to San Carlos just as the last tropical depression moved safely out to the Pacific. The weather just broke from heat and humidity in the 90’s to temps in the mid-80’s with low humidity. Perfect. We said goodbye to cruiser…

Mike and Summer at Locust Point (filter on to pick up colors on overcast day) We are having a very strange summer. We left the Sea and Mangas and traveled to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to escape the unbearable heat and humidity. At the Rim, we have experienced an incredible amount of…

Once we decided to skip the heat and head for Arizona, Mike needed to take a little puddle jumper flight from Guaymas to La Paz to get the Bronco out of storage and get it back to San Carlos.  After landing in La Paz, he drove to Mulege for the night and then on to…

We woke in Sweat Pea Cove, after the night’s symphony concluded, and it seemed as if the sound abated for about an hour before beginning up again where it left off. It was beautiful to listen to and experience. We will definitely need to return to Sweet Pea Cove and get some fishing in at…

The white sand beach of Santo Domingo with the entrance to Bahía de Concepción on the opposite shore Heading out of Escondido, we decided to get up to Bahía de Concepción, another 70+ nm to the north. That meant a night sail and we had good winds for it. We set the sails and got…

Lightening on the horizon Our first night anchor after crossing was in San Evaristo. This small fishing village has a great cove that is protected from most winds and swells, except those coming from the east. With the southerly blows we were having, we knew it would be fine. San Evaristo also has a couple…

Trying to catch the green spark We left Mazatlan early in the day to hit the high tide and to beat a storm front coming into the area. As we navigated the narrow channel down to the fuel dock, the winds began to pick up, but we couldn’t avoid getting fuel. We pulled in without incident,…

Kids with their Spanish teacher, Vicki at the Borda Gardens in Cuernavaca OK, so we traveled from Mazatlan to Guadalajara and then on to Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos. We arrived a little bus terminal 45 minutes earlier than expected because our driver drove like a bat out of hell and I was just…

At 1.5 million people, the city of Guadalajara is the same size as Phoenix, Arizona by comparison. The surrounding suburb cities, bring the metro area to a population of 5 million. Even though quite large, the city itself feels like it is made up of numerous smaller unique neighborhoods and towns and traversing through it…

It has been quite a long time since our last post and we have about 6 posts staged and ready to go out. We just got internet coverage again after a very long dry spell, so hopefully you will see many posts hit today and tomorrow. We are back at sea- Yea! And enjoying great…