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Dongee Butt

18 May 2018

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Dongee Butt

“How-la?,” she said, with the standard-issue grab bag of tells that lets everyone within a half-kilometer radius know that this person is here on vacation, staying at an all-inclusive resort, and sobered up enough to realize they’ve suddenly found themselves outside said resort…in MEXICO.  She was standing there, like a red and white striped zebra, […]

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Rooster Plays Chicken in the Plaza at High Noon

31 March 2017

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Rooster Plays Chicken in the Plaza at High Noon

From the Landfall Voyages Tumblr files! https://thelandfallvoyages.tumblr.com/post/159050007748/eli-had-this-rooster-eating-out-of-his-hand-all

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Mexican Men Are Incurable Romantics

28 October 2015

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Mexican Men Are Incurable Romantics

Also, horny as fuck. I don’t know if it’s the light eyes, the guera status, the crazy color hair, the tattoos, the fact that I’m a girl who also works on engines and goes up masts and rescues boats, or simply the part where I’m a female in the near vicinity…but they are relentless in […]

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Landfall on Google Maps Street View

22 September 2015

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Landfall on Google Maps Street View

It was surreal watching the Google Maps car drive down the main street in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle…even weirder to find our boat on Google Maps street view, comfortably chilling in her slip at Marina Riviera Nayarit.

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Burros–Nearby Mexican Surf Spot With A Sprinkling Of Bikinis

25 March 2015

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Burros–Nearby Mexican Surf Spot With A Sprinkling Of Bikinis

We went to Burros the other day, a little surf spot not too far from La Cruz, and had a blast. It was my first time there. I can’t wait to go back. With a better camera. I reached down to pick up a big piece of shed bark and right before my fingers made […]

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The Cult of VW Is Alive and Well South of The Border

15 October 2014

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The Cult of VW Is Alive and Well South of The Border

Mexico’s love affair with the VW Bug has been going on since the 50’s and the fact that Volkswagen stopped making them (dear God, why??) has only made them more popular than ever. We got to wander through the 3rd Annual Riviera Nayarit VW Festival, snapping pictures, gawking like tourists, and having a generally all […]

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Pickpocketed from Afar

4 June 2014

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Pickpocketed from Afar

Late Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend and Mexico is melting into summer. The air is heavy with moisture and mountains of puffy white cumulus clouds dot the previously unbroken blue in the sky above. In the afternoons, clouds pile up in huge grey drifts, threatening rain and rumbling to themselves, but so far all […]

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Angel Smiles

17 May 2014

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Angel Smiles

“Hello, I remember you from last year.” It was the last night of the insane 9-day, round-the-clock fiesta that marks the celebration of La Cruz’s founding. I turned away from the stage, where adorable 5 year old girls were re-enacting hula dances from Lilo & Stitch, to see who, in this great crush of people, […]

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Walmar and the Quest for Freon

23 April 2013

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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 twisted sense of humor. Our refrigeration system went offline yesterday, which is a pretty big deal since we no longer live in […]

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Random La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

16 April 2013

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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 that the much warmer climate and water might loosen up some of the scar tissue in my muscles and help get me moving again. The trip […]

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