August 13, 2020
Sea of Cortez - Return to La Paz
Loreto is the prettiest little town. Old trees and cobbled streets, the town square and church, nestled between the mountains and the jewel blue sea. It truly has an ‘old world’
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38 posts — June 2017 to August 2020
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July 31, 2020
Sea of Cortez - Mission San Javier
Aside from a small burst of wind at about 2:30AM, we had a quiet night in Bahia San Evaristo for the most part. Occasionally we’d wake to the boat rocking crazily and the noise of
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March 20, 2020
A Life Less Ordinary Indeed
When we set off in search of a life less ordinary two years ago, this is not what we were looking for. We never imagined anything like a worldwide pandemic was just around the corn
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March 4, 2020
Sea of Cortez - San Evaristo
We had a fun evening there at the restaurant meeting others anchored in the bay, and cruisers who had been there before us had painted their boat names on shells and put them on a
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February 20, 2020
Exploring in the Sea of Cortez
After our lovely trip to see friends and do some inland exploring, we were well and truly ready to get off the dock and out into the Sea of Cortez. We'd been delayed because of hea
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December 18, 2019
Land Travels - Guadalajara
We were excited to start exploring Guadalajara after our party trip to Puerto Vallarta. After a long restorative sleep we donned our comfy shoes, grabbed the “big”camera, had a lov
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October 24, 2019
Party Time in Puerto Vallarta
We love a good party. And traveling. So when we were invited to a birthday celebration in Puerto Vallarta we of course accepted and took the opportunity to combine it with a few da
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October 9, 2019
La Vida en La Paz
See what I did there? Dazzled you with my español right? You'd be forgiven for assuming that after 18 months of living in Mexico we'd be well on the way to fluency, but in all hone
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August 22, 2019
It's Not All Smooth Sailing. Who Knew?
November 18: As the revelry in Cabo came to an end and the 2018 Baja Haha participants began to disperse, it was time for us to plan our own onward journey into the Sea of Cortez.
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July 25, 2019
Cabo Baby!!
Excitement levels were high as we left Bahia Santa Maria behind us on the final leg of our trip. As usual we fell into our rhythm of watches, naps and eating but there was definite
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June 3, 2019
Shenanigans in Bahia Santa Maria
** Warning. This post includes a picture that shows an exposed female nipple. I refuse to censor it. Because if it was a male nipple, no one would blink an eye, right? I mean, it w
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February 27, 2019
Bahia Tortugas
Another beautiful day had us arriving with a gaggle of rally boats into Bahia de Tortuga two days after our departure from Ensenada. The trip so far had been very calm and windless
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February 7, 2019
Adios Ensenada!
There we all were, excited and ready to get underway! The Port Captain had already received our exit paperwork (we hired an agent to take care of all the paperwork - our Spanish i
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January 2, 2019
Ready to Rally
Once we'd made the decision to join the rally, we thought we had a reasonable handle on everything we had to get done before our departure to Cabo San Lucas. We had 4 weeks to get
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December 18, 2018
Boating, Business & Beadledom
After our consumptive night at Oceanside we made our way south to the utter bliss of the public dock at Shelter Island, which is kind of ironic - it's full of nefarious night time
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November 21, 2018
Expectation and Reality
After our lovely few days at Avalon it was time for us to start making our way south again towards Ensenada. We had an uneventful but pleasant trip to Oceanside where we were stopp
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September 14, 2018
SoCal Sailing
After the drama of the previous week and the horrific morning with the pump-out, we were looking forward to a few quiet days for a change - you know, the type of days we were expec
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August 18, 2018
Seriously..You Can't Make This Shit Up
Warning:Somewhat bad language in this post. It's warranted. Believe me.
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August 16, 2018
My First Overnight Passage
We've had lots of fun with guests onboard lately. Phil and Kristi from Texas spent a few days with us, culminating of course in yet another wonderful trip out to the beautiful Vall
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August 2, 2018
Thailand - Part 2 (Finally!)
Complete and utter shock - best description by far of the look on his face when a bunch of people came up behind him and screamed "Happy Birthday!!"
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July 1, 2018
Saturday was a crappy day
No friends, not every day is sleeping in, cocktails on the Lido deck and sunshine.
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June 21, 2018
Thailand - Part 1
Despite his request for a quiet, inexpensive birthday this year, I couldn't let Daz's big 50th pass without something a little special even though living on our boat in Mexico is
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May 15, 2018
A Guest, A Birthday and Sailing Plans
We love it when people want to come visit us on our little floating home, so when our dear neighbour from Maple Valley asked if she could head down for a long weekend, we couldn't
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April 19, 2018
A Year Living on a Boat
It's been a year since we sold the house and moved aboard. That year went really quickly! People often ask us about the transition from house to boat:- how we cope with sharing cl
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April 8, 2018
Retirement is Exhausting
The last month has been filled with taking trips to the US, conjugating spanish verbs, researching solar panels and anchors, being social on the dock, hosting the morning cruisers
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March 10, 2018
Road trip to a new life
That last week in Washington was a whirlwind of tying up those last tenuous threads connecting us to life in the US, farewell lunches and dinners with friends, packing, working, la
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January 21, 2018
An Aussie Christmas
It's been quite a busy month (I think I say that every month), evidenced by the fact that it's almost the end of January and I'm just now getting around to writing about our trip t
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December 9, 2017
Land Life Lately
The last month has flown by! We’ve both been busy with our various work commitments, travelling, family visits and visiting and also got to spend a long weekend together in Ensena
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November 10, 2017
Consciously Uncoupling from Corporate America
It's been 4 weeks since Darrin left Seattle aboard Eione. Amazing how life once again has changed so completely for us, but there's still plenty to do before we can truly feel free
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November 1, 2017
Sending my man off to sea...
As a million other women throughout history have done before me, I stood on the dock waving, a little weepy, as my husband (and my home) motored smoothly out of the marina and on t
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September 25, 2017
Hold on to your Sombrero's Ensenada...
Yes, I know, we've already told everyone that. September 2018.
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August 28, 2017
Sold!
5 weeks, start to finish - that's how long it took us to sell/donate/trash just about everything we've accumulated over the last 17 years.
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August 17, 2017
What? You're moving on to a BOAT??
*** Edit: The pictures you see here were taken when our house was torn apart as we were culling and selling. The back yard is typical of the pre-spring cleanup after a windy winte
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August 5, 2017
Re-entry
Alas, all good things must come to an end, although I don't think that should apply to vacations.
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July 28, 2017
Wasp Islands & Rosario Resort
Unfortunately this time of year in the Pacific Northwest, prevailing winds are light and opportunities to sail are few. So once again we fired up the iron genny and made our way n
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July 25, 2017
Cruising the San Juans
The weather really couldn't have been more perfect for our cruise around the islands. The type of days that we suffer through winter for because they're just so glorious here in t
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July 23, 2017
Friday Harbor Fireworks
Friday Harbor pulls out all the stops for the 4th. A beautiful location, marina was full, fireworks, a parade...perfection!
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June 27, 2017
Our First Boat
I had never sailed, in fact I don't think I had ever been on a sailboat when we first started talking about sailing. Darrin grew up sailing small boats on Lake Washington, so he ha
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