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• ¿Dónde Están Sus Zapatos?

  In high school, my Spanish teacher teased me incessantly about my shoes—more specifically, the lack thereof. Every time I saw him, he’d pause with a grin on... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Custom Yacht Mattress

  

  When we were in SoCal, we realized beyond a shadow of a doubt that our “mattress” was junk. It was made of eight inch thick hard foam and was about as... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Awesome Women Who Sail Meetup in Marina La Cruz

  

  “Katrina’s gonna be calling you later,” says my husband. I’m standing at the stove, trying to make some atole, because truthfully—I feel like a dog turd that’s... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Taint Break

  In the beginning of this blog, after a good flame post, my dad warned me to keep it more positive than negative. Good advice.Soon we’ll write about our lost... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• How Not To Anchor Your Boat

  Anchoring is like politics and religion. You really want to be careful who you broach the subject with. Your friends will die to protect their beliefs, no matte... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Wake Up!!

  At 6:00 this morning I woke up for a moment thinking that I’d be going right back to sleep for awhile longer. It’s Sunday. Still dark then. Just a minute later... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Drunken Boaters

  This is not the post that you thought it would be.You might expect me to complain about the drinking habits of boaters. It wouldn’t be out of character if I... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Break

  Yep, a double break.First, we went cruising to take a break from whatever you call that life that we had before this. As it turns out, cruising isn’t all... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Radio Radio?

  Here in Bahia de Banderas, the boat to boat hailing channel is 22. All day you’ll hear boats calling out to one another. Example, us calling Calypso- Calypso... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• How Not To Dock Your Boat.

  We see a lot out here. A lot of bad docking maneuvers and a lot of bad anchoring. We don’t have any more experience than they do, but we try to do it right.... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Is It Worth It?

  It’s been almost a year and a half since we sailed off. In a couple weeks we will have been in Mexico most of the time for a year. Today, at anchor, I’m... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Walmar and the Quest for Freon

  

  In general, when it comes to boats, Murphy is always waiting in the wings bilge to kick up his heels and have a little fun. Gotta hand it to him, dude’s got a... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Random La Cruz De Huanacaxtle

  

  We spent a month in Puerto Vallarta (pre-boat) a couple of years after I got hurt. I was still in a wheelchair and that’s the biggest reason we came–hoping... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Alien Abduction

  

  Last week, I walked up to the Kiosko convenience store to get a couple things and as I rounded the corner, it was chaos. There were cases and cases of... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Random Puerto Vallarta

  We were going to Puerto Vallarta one day, and got off the bus too early. Walked along the beach for a while and then took a shortcut up a dry riverbed to get... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Looking For Crocodiles

  One of the first things we saw after pulling into Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay, was a little African Queen-type tour boat that’ll take you deep into... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Duct Tape On The Rocks

  

  “If…anchorage…Duct Tape is on the rocks…,” was pretty much all I picked out before the VHF went crazy with static and people stepping on each other. We turned u... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• First & Second

  Yesterday was for firsts–today, for seconds. Yesterday I surfed a new spot for the first time, right near the boat. It’s a long and rocky point break just east... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cleat Hitch

  

  Yesterday Eli and I were inflating our warranty replacement dinghy as a really nice catamaran was coming in to the dock at Paradise Village Marina. We walked... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hockles Suck. Also, I May Have Tied an Air Bowline.

  

  From the backlog: When we upped anchor in Turtle Bay, we came face to face with a weird looking section of 3-strand that turned out to be a Hockle [cue... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL