A Vacation From a Vacation

We just had a great week of vacation. Wait, wait, wait, but we’ve been down here for three months already…just a week? It took a couple of good friends coming down here to get us to slow down the work schedule and get out and enjoy this beautiful place for...

Selkie Sails Again

  The day has finally come.  We have sailed out beautiful little boat into the Sea of Cortez. We finished the standing rigging installation last Thursday after a whirlwind of work, and the last few days have found us sailing, snorkeling and eating good food with...

What Happened to Sippin’ Mai Tais?

Hurricane Miriam barrels our way as I write. She is expected to hit the Baja peninsula on Saturday morning, albeit by that time, likely only as a tropical depression. What she does after that is anyone’s guess. Hopefully we’ll get the two breezy (20-30 knots) and...

The First Five Days

It’s Day 5 of living in Mexico.  What the heck have we been doing with all our free time?  Well, a ton….and not a lot at all.  At the same time.  Confusing,  I know.  We knew life would be different down here – and that’s exactly what we...

Viva Mexico!

We were more than a little nervous as we rolled into Nogales, AZ yesterday morning. We had nothing to hide, but we did have a Subaru loaded to the gills with gear that we didn’t necessarily want to pay a 17% import duty on.  Nor did we want to unpack our little...