This is all new to us.

I mean this blogging thing is new to us. We've been sailing around the Pacific since 1999 aboard our 1980 Irwin 37 sail boat. We started from San Francisco, California and visited Baja and the Sea of Cortez. We've made 3 round trip crossings from Mexico to Hawaii and back and made one trip south to El Salvador. We recently sailed from Hawaii to La Paz, Baja Mexico and spent the last 4 months in the Northern reaches of the Sea of Cortez . We've always had plans to reach Ecuador but but family issues, like new granddaughters, keep pulling us back. However, this time we are determined to make it there before we get too darn old. Later, we will tell you about our boat and about our cruising experiences. We are now in Santa Rosalia, Baja Mx. Jean had to fly back to the states because her mother just passed away. That leaves me and the cat to do all the maintenance that we avoided because it's been just too darn hot here.

When Jean returns we have to decide where to go next. See, this cruising life style is just full of difficulties just like this. It's just not that easy to decide weather to go to a local island, a far away bay, some small Mexican village or to a large city. Yeah, it's tough out here. We will, however, be in La Cruz this winter for a few months. La Cruz is a small town north of Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican mainland but, as to where to be in the mean time is up for grabs.