LandfallVoyages

Soriana Super

Yesterday we realized we were out of just about everything, so we hightailed it up to the green Super Soriana. Soriana is a chain of grocery stores in Mexico and the green super is our favorite. So far as we can tell, they’ve got green ones, red ones, mini ones, regular ones, and the supers. […]

Morning Coffee, the Viva Mexico Edition

Apparently Mexico beat Brazil in the Olympic soccer final and won the gold. I had no idea until I pedaled out for coffee this morning. The whole waterfront and gringo shopping district (shopping for gringos, not shopping  for gringos) was filled with Mexicanos locos screaming VIVA MEXICO! from cars, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles or anything else, all […]

Ensenada Seafood

Ensenada has some of the finest seafood imaginable. We’re going out to a place nearby on Calle Primera that a local kid recommended to us. He says it’s tons of food for little money and the finest quality and he raved about their baked giant clams. I’m excited and I’ll post pictures later.

The Right Kind of Crazy

Choosing a cruising boat is like choosing a spouse. You have to choose one with problems that you can deal with. No boat is perfect and no person is perfect but you have to choose the right kind of crazy.

Kick a hole right in the sky

Hurricane Fabio may be spinning itself into dissipation but it’s not going down without a fight. Walking back from the dentist’s office last night we were treated to an epic, knock down drag out battle between Fabio and the setting sun.              

You see the strangest things…

Like this, some (?) in the La Playa Anchorage when we were in San Diego. Really? A recliner facing aft? Did that seem like a good idea at the time?    

Danger, Will Robinson

The other morning I heard the unmistakable drowning lawnmower drone of an incoming skiff. Coming in kind of hot, actually. That’s not so unusual. Our boat is parked in slip 13, out at the very end of C-Dock and a lot of visiting boats take advantage of the extra long dock space. Some of them […]

Navy Boats in San Diego

In Dana Point, you can’t turn around without having some, admittedly very well mannered, harbor cop crawling all up in your nethers. Again, they were hella nice, but I’m a grown up girl and comfortable with the idea of being responsible for my own actions. Tell me the rules and I’m good to go. I […]

Random Ensenada

Ensenada Police

So, here we are in Ensenada, stuck. Due to a bent propshafts, leaky steering lines, a broken shift cable, a dead autopilot, rough weather, a funeral, and health problems, we didn’t make it far enough south fastenough. We will sit out hurricane season in Ensenada rather than in Puerto Vallarta. We are enjoying it. There is […]