The Story of guy and gal!

Taking a day off today!   You might consider that as well.  It is good for the soul to literally take a day off.  You know................do nothing.  Most of us take a day off and fill it up with all the things that we can't or dont get around doing on a normal day. Somehow, sometimes we are forced in taking a day off...........such as happened to me.  (I fell yesterday on our hike to get to the market--hurt my left shoulder pretty much.........did not break the eggs.         (to the right is a picture of  the road to town) The locals never seem to be able to tell you that they do not know..........how far anything is or that they do not know the direction to  somewhere.  It is as if they do not know how to say they do not know.........so they tell you something and as a Gringo  you believe them and in your broken Spanish half understand.  To say the least.........sometime you are off on a wild goose chase....

of the Baja that is.  We are enjoying a glorious red morning sky and coffee in the wheel house, which is our main spot to relax as it gives us protection from the elements at the same times as providing the best view.  We have been thankful for it so many times in the past five months.  Most other sailors are either inside their vessel or out in the open--something that neither Claes or I thought appealing.  He has spent most of his adult life out in the elements working and I could not envision being "couped up".  Claes did an incredible job designing both the dodger and the canvas top that finishes it off.  The two guys in Royston, Craig at his home based business and  Chris at Eldorado Upholstery in Courtenay provided the actual fabrication............thank you guys!!!!  It is the main place when we are underway as the navigation centre and wheel and motor room are all based there.  The other times that we enjoy it of course is when we are...

Beautiful little bay---about fifty miles from La Paz.  The wind blew from the NNW today so we had a rough ride and little sailing but we made it.  We will spend a few days here as there appears to be alot ot explore...........stand by for more pictures. We have internet so please turn your Skype on if you want to talk. First day of December and we are excited!  ONLY 24 more days till we can celebrate The BIG BIRTHDAY!!!! Till later............lue claes and joey

Oh we have had the best weekend!  It started out with arriving here at this beautiful little cove.  Not much here but a few beautiful huge homes.  It appears to be part of a national park.  As I have mentioned we have been travelling with a few other folks who we invited for pancake breakfast on sunday morning.  Claes has not lost his touch.  The after noon was filled with a trip to the beach--fighting the surf to get in followed by  a walk about.  We met again in the early evening for happy hour and made an early night of it. The sun makes hyou tired fast.   Today we started out with a lazy morning on the deck. Claes did catch a huge Dorado fish this morning..............and it was certainly tasty after marinating in lemon and garlic for a while. I did a little laundry then we headed back to the beach. The guys hung out and snorkeled while we  wlked the beach collecting shells and choral.  We dicussed many things amongst a few th...

Beautiful saturday morning.  Away we go for a 43 miles journey today.  We will talk with  you as soon as we can. Lue and Claes and Joey

Yesterday on American thanksgiving day we were very thankful that we arrived at the Cape!  It signified our first complete leg of the journey!! yes   over two thousand miles and we are thrilled! The town itself was not the highlight but needless to say we went ashore with our sailing buddies...........remember there were five vessels travelling together on this last leg...........four Canadians and our good pals Nautilus from the USA.  With wobbly sea legs we walked the main downtown core of a very commercial touristy San Lucas.  Sure has changed since the last time we were here..............about 8 years we think.  We had a margarita right off and then found a great pizza place...............called  Wickeds", owned by Johnny from Vancouver.  On our way back to the dingy, we found a market and bought a few things.  The trips back and forth in the dingy took about 15 minutes each way and was quiet an experience as the waters are very busy wit...

which is 152 miles north of Cabos San Lucas.  This is a small little fishing village that was ravaged by a hurricane a few years ago and has not recovered yet.  There is a school with about twenty kids,a nice new church and very minimal provisions in the the little grocery store, which is basically part of someone's house.  It is all pretty sparse, with many buildings in disrepair  all of which are very small  and powered by a generator that is shut off at 10 pm.  There is a cantina that appears to serve the working fisherman regular meals as well as provides cervezes and food for us gringos.  Everyone is very friendly and very willing to chat in broken and minimal English with us not doing much better with our Spanish. One certainly can appreciate our beautiful Canadian neighbourhoods and amenities.............we only need to be as happy as they are with so little. Claes and I had a chore day and got a few things accomplished.  Tomorrow we wi...