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Landfall To Do List

17 October 2012

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We just had a great visit from my dad, Ken. We walked and pedaled his ass all around Ensenada and he enjoyed it so much that he’s considering moving down here so his money will go farther. Now it’s time to get the old boat ready for her biggest sail so far this century. Finish […]

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San Diego to Ensenada Yacht Race Collision

7 October 2012

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There’s a rumor going around the docks here in Cruiseport Village in Ensenada that there was a collision last night between a sailboat returning to San Diego and a freighter. Allegedly three bodies have been pulled out of the water and they can’t find any survivors out of the 5 crew. The incident was somewhere […]

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Morning Coffee, Dog Shit Edition

1 October 2012

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Morning Coffee, Dog Shit Edition

There’s this cafe in Ensenada that has the best apple pie in the world. I mean that. The World. Ironic isn’t it? I don’t go there often because it’s as expensive as Starbucks but every once in a while it’s OK. Their pie is over four inches thick and it’s layered with cheese and when it’s […]

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Morning Coffee, Stripper Edition Part 2

28 September 2012

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Yesterday I went out for coffee again, obviously, and had to do a couple of errands. After the first two, a stop at a pharmacia and something else that I can’t remember right now, I had to repeat the paint stripper journey. I went to the same paint store and to the same taco stand […]

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Mexican Emergency Room Madness, aka Part 2

25 September 2012

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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 […]

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Sorry for the delay of Part 2

22 September 2012

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Tamiko is still recovering. She’s had to take more muscle relaxants than we’d like so she’s pretty drowsy. I can’t finish that story, I can’t write like she can. I write like a chainsaw, she writes like a rose garden. It’s been a rough week. One example- Last night the blue camoflaged shark cage diving […]

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Pollo Asado

19 September 2012

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We had dinner delivered tonight. There are BBQ chicken places that deliver inexpensive food all over Mexico. They’re what El Pollo Loco modeled their food after.  Chicken split in half, marinated in fruit juices and spices and cooked over wood, it’s great. For about $11.00 they brought enough food for a large family. Two chickens, […]

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And There We Were in a Mexican Emergency Room: Part 1

18 September 2012

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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 […]

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It Always Happens in the Middle of the Night…

8 September 2012

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It Always Happens in the Middle of the Night…

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 […]

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Failed Attempt at Point Conception

6 September 2012

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            We haven’t talked much about our trip around Point Conception or our first failed attempt. We left Morro Bay for Port San Luis Obispo and had a fairly nice sail down. We arrived at night, as usual, but were able to navigate through the mooring fields and find the […]

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