Bye for now.

Dennis & Joan and Roxy Too! 

 I took advantage of that by going home for two day’s.   I left again on Dec. 20th and had a very nice sunny motor sail to Dana Point and finished the trip at 3:15pm as I pulled into Slip 27, Travelers new home.   More details to follow about the “Stress Test in Ensanada” later!

 Life is change and we loved the time we spent in Mexico and most importantly meeting new friends, many are now special friends.  This what life is all about.  Now we will begin meeting more new friends.   Down the road we talked about doing some land travel  in th states via and RV. 

  I will post are progress during the Baja Bash and until then, Be safe!                   Dennis & Joan and Roxy Too!

 A day or two later we went up to Aqua Verde, 85 miles north of La Paz, and because of a low pressure system in Yuma, AZ.  we had to stay an extra three day’s.   Yes we did it in spite of the beautiful “aqua green” water.   Yes, we even had to jump in a few times, just because.  They we just had to go to the beach gathering with other crusiers, well we didn’t want to be unsociable.  All in all we survived the ordeal and made it back to Mazaltan Marina where we packed things up and drive out on June 2nd and returned to the other life June 5th.

We reported into Lowes for duty on June 10th and 11th, after two days we seemed like we’ve been back for months.

Until next Jan. Be Safe Talk to you then.

Dennis, Joan and Roxy Too!

Brother Dennis, aka “Kneedeep” and his friend Char spent 5 days with us and we took them out to Isla Partida and Ensenada Grande.   This is a Island (marine reserve) about 20 miles north east of La Paz.  They got a break in the rat race of life in the city and spent time in the dingy going  around checking out  the wild life on the  Island.  The rest of the time was spent taking short napes and reading.    We took traveler out to Isla Rockas,  which is home to 200 sea loins and baby pup’s and all the sea bird’s and took lot’s of picture’s.  Brother Dennis and Char had to fly back to the Rat Race on Tuesday so we came back to Marina de  La Paz were we are going to have some work done on the boat  then start are way back to Mazatlan by the end of May.

That’s it for now.

Dennis, Joan and Roxy Too!
 

  We keep our car in Mazatlan so we got it and took Dick and Jan on Zephyrus up to Copala to visit Gary & Lois, aka “Texan”.    Gary  and Lois have made Copala there  new home.    It’s a beautiful hill side home over looking the town plaza and a Church that was built in 1765. (see pictures)

On Wedesday April 23 we left Mazatlan and crossed the sea of Cortez. It was 191 mile trip and took 34 hours.  We had flat seas and light winds and a full moon.  The best kind of crossing one could have.  On on final aproach to our distantion we were greeted by hundreds and hundreds of Dolpins! (see pictures) They would swim right under the bow of the boat and three or four of them would leave and then four or five more would come and swim with Traveler.  Roxy went nut’s.  She had to be restrained  as she  barked to try to scare away the possible  threat  to her.  

We got to Murtoes about 4:00 pm and dropped the hook in beautiful aqua blue water.  Murtoes is a small bay that is home to a large sports fishing panga fleet, and at night larger private sports fishing boats spend the night.  The only thing here is two small resorts to the south of us and the north end is a resterant called the Giggling Marlin.  It’s just like the one in Cabo.   We made a visit to the restrerant and had  some ”Cheeseburger’s in Pardise”!  It was busy with the panga fishing customers that had just come in to celabrate ther catch with a few cold ones.
From here were off to La Paz area on Sunday!
Bye for now!
Dennis, Joan & Roxy

 We recently took a day trip  with Dick and Jan on Zhyreups, (a sister ship to Traveler)  friends from San Diego  on a buss to a little beach community north of PV called Salyulita.   It is also a large Gringo community, where the homes are priced like Orange County. You can have a little Mexican Home on the beach,  only $500,000 to $1,500,000.!   It is also a very popular surfing beach.  For every restaurant there is a real estate office. and some nice shop’s .    We had a very nice time and a good meal.  Check out the pictures.  (#3)

Our friend May from Riverside came to PV to visit us so we moved the boat from Nuevo Vallarta to Marina Vallarta where you are surrounded by Condo’s and restaurant.  It’s like living in a fish bowl.  On the plus side it’s easy to get around by bus or even walking.  In Nuevo Vallarta it’s a two buss ride to get anywhere.   While in Vallarta marine we went to Cosco, just opened in March, and bought 4 new 6 volt batteries.    Now if the only had a Fry’s Electronic store we could by everything down here.    How time has changed, for the better.

We left PV on Wed. April 9th and went to Punta Mita to spend the night.   The next day we took a 30 mile trip north to our favorite spot, Chacala where we are at present time.  We are getting a good wi-fi signal and today Sunday we have been listening to a live broadcast on NHRA Drag racing from Las Vegas.   Yesterday was a beach day along with some other cruisers, Rosita, Oasis’s, and Tequila Rose to name a few. Tomorrow we will head north to Mazatlan for a week then across the sea to La Paz.
That’s it for now.
Take care and be safe!

Dennis, Joan & Roxy!