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 and, for those of you who we used to work with, those pesky cruise ship installs usually in Europe.
In this month, we have experienced highs and lows:
- Learning Ensenada means Cove.
- Arriving and immediately eating authentic locals Mexican food!
- Attending a week-long Spanish immersion class that was wonderful and exhausting.
- Getting Montezuma’s Revenge, 2 days of misery and about 2 weeks until normal.
- Walking Ensenada and experiencing life here.
- Finishing the water maker install, which brings a new level of freedom and feels like magic!
- Trying new dishes and foods.
- Stocking our ER offshore medicine kit and experiencing the feeling of a government trusting you to not abuse antibiotics and pain meds that you can just buy them without a script.
- Seeing friendly faces and meeting new people.
- Extending our stay because Ensenada’s Carnaval starts later this week!
Our days have been filled with projects–sewing a Frankenstein generator cover & mounting the generator were two big ones along with the water maker. Sailing life is just about to become just maintenance, break/fix, and being cultural nomads–the good stuff! Mark has tirelessly devoted the past two years to converting MACH 5 from a day sailboat to a cruising sailboat. Sure things will break. Sure he still has little things he wants to do. Sure I still need to devise a bug screen for the cockpit. But the biggies…they are good.
I have several blog posts in draft stage about projects like rewiring the main parts of the boat and switching from lead acid batteries to lithium batteries and all the stuff that comes along. However, I just haven’t felt like yet another project post.
Cereal is organized by flavor (1 of 2)
Today, Domingo, 12 de Febrero, 2023 es Super Bowl Sunday y a No Bones Day para nosotros (for us).
From a rainy Ensenada, I’ll post about Carnaval de Ensenada soon. Until then, enjoy some photos.