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Wandering Through CEARTE, Ensenada’s Center for the Arts
It’s easy, when picking your way down the coast toward Mexico, to live life, if not in vacation mode, then at least with a sense of urgency. You are somewhere for only a short while, and it seems only right and natural to make the most of every port you pass through. You look for […]
Continue reading...Return of Shark the Dog Hunter
23 October 2012
A couple of days after the bulk of his crew jumped ship, Captain Dog managed to hire on some new deckhands. I’m wondering how he finds these people, because most of this new crew look just as green as the last. Some kind of temp service that specializes in matching workers to jobs that they […]
Continue reading...Wherein a Captain Tries to Strangle One of His Crew
22 October 2012
He kind of deserved it. There are a couple of shark-diving boats that operate out of Cruiseport Village marina, here in Ensenada. For three months of the year, they are paid extraordinarily good money to haul insane vacationers out to popular shark haunts where they can frolic in the water amongst cute and cuddly maneaters. […]
Continue reading...The Mexican Navy Happened Today
19 October 2012
While Hurricane Paul peters out along the coast of Baja, doing nothing much except pouting big grey clouds across the sky, folks in the marina are bustling about–some of us are heading south in a few weeks, others are hunkering down for what passes as winter in Ensenada, and a few just plain bustle all […]
Continue reading...Mexican Emergency Room Madness, aka Part 2
25 September 2012
Aaaannnnndd, we’re back. Apologies for the delay on Part the Second, but getting over one of these spasm attacks is rough. It feels like a Kenworth has been using my left side as a parking lot for the last week or so. Now where were we? Oh yes…in the taxi, on the way to the […]
Continue reading...And There We Were in a Mexican Emergency Room: Part 1
18 September 2012
The teak deck is damp and gritty against my face. The stars above are far away and beautiful. The sound of phaser fire drifts up from the cabin below and I try to imagine I am on the bridge of Enterprise, in the Star Trek episode we’d been watching, and not pinned to the deck […]
Continue reading...It Always Happens in the Middle of the Night…
8 September 2012
Or 2:30 in the morning, to be more exact. I was deep under –we’re talking dead, asleep drooling on the pillow– when Steve crawled over me, opened the head door and stood there for a minute. “Why is that pump running”? he asked. There’s no sleeping through a question like that. Unless you want to […]
Continue reading...Los Globos: Best Open Air Markets and Second Hand Stores in Ensenada
28 August 2012
Los Globos is a 12 square block section of mostly open air market stalls in the middle of Ensenada. You can find everything there, like super fresh produce at unbelievably cheap prices, fresh meat, ice cream, tents, old keyboards, antique wood-burning stoves, vintage rocking horses, entire bedroom sets for $120 and pretty much any kind […]
Continue reading...Morning Coffee, Urchin Edition
27 August 2012
As I was sipping my mocha up on Calle Primera, I was approached by two cute little Chiclet sales girls, about six and eight years old. I gave them my standard, “Gracias, pero no (no thank you),” with a halfass decent accent that usually works. The small one, with a firm, determined look on her […]
Continue reading...Festival del Tacos y Cerveza
20 August 2012
We are really lucky that Ensenada is crazy for festivals, especially food related ones. So far this summer we’ve had a festivals for Blues music, cheese and wine, Chinese food, mushrooms, books and lectures, Mexican culture, and a couple more that escape my memory at the moment. This weekend they had a Taco and Beer […]
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