Mark and I seem to do things slightly off schedule. So, why wouldn’t we stay in Baja Norte with its cold temps, northerly winds, and lack of snorkeling for winter? The prior post was about our time in Don Juan. We left there just before New Years for an overnight sail to Santa Rosalia, which…
Hopping in the time machine, let’s head back to 17 Dec 2023. We departed Puerto Peñasco after a simple rigging repair and a few days in a slip. We set off on a 41-hour, 179nm trip south to Don Juan, which is in the Sea of Cortez in Baja by Bahia de Los Angeles. Some…
Well. I did not plan for a 4 month lapse in blog posts. I expected to have a weekly–or at least bi-weekly–writing habit. Mark continues his streak of never ever blogging. 2024 has been filled with social time, a few projects, and a lot of moving. Since departing Peñasco, we have sailed just over 1,065…
It’s that time of year! No, not the one where Santa visits. The one where the named wind storms head south for winter and therefore, so can we. We splashed last week. That’s cruiser terminology for going back into the water. If you have 10 mins, watch the full video playlist of MACH 5 moving…
Whatever you call waste from living, cooking, eating, cleaning, it has to go somewhere. In the USA in land-life, we are luckily that these really wonderful people come by every week and make it disappear. They are actual lifesavers and essential workers, yet we look down upon them and never aspire to that job. When…
We arrived in Mag Bay–as cruisers call it–on Wednesday, March 22 after a 3 day, 2 night uneventful motor sail. We needed to be in by midday on Wednesday because a blow was coming. Before the blow, while we were underway, we lived the proverbial “calm before the storm.” The Pacific Ocean looked like a…
We arrived in Bahìa Tortugas (Turtle Bay) on Wednesday morning. We anchored, got ship shape, ate breakfast burritos, and went to bed! The passage was our first multi-day–4 days and 3 nights. We did better about sleeping. We started very seasick and with me (Christiana) colliding with the wooden back of the settee with my…
Today, 12 Feb 2023 is the one month anniversary of our arrival in Mexico and becoming international cruisers! For me, Christiana, this marks the longest continuous stint outside the USA. I asked Mark if it is his longest as well. He says probably, after doing the math on childhood trips to Japan with his Dad…
