As promised by Bob in our last blog, I am going to take a
few moments and share my thoughts on cruising.
The first thing you will notice is that timelines are really not
important any more and thus this blog is probably a day later than you
expected!)
For those of you who like camping, we are camping on water
and moving camp with much less effort!
Put away the dishes, close the portholes and hatches, pull up the anchor
or release the lines and away we go! Quite pleasant. And I’ve taken advantage of a great area here in Los Cabos for morning runs!
I run over to the captured dolphin pens and try to encourage
them to escape. Apparently there is a dolphin training facility here. Kind of sad.
But you will be surprised that there have only been two days
that we have not set an alarm! We need to get up to hear the weather reports which happen at 0730. But it gets you up at the best time of the day. It is crisp and clean and beautiful. And this lifestyle has us going to bed early and sleeping very soundly. So nice to be
past the stress of preparing. Everyone in the other boats we meet has the same rushed prep stories. Fun to compare.
Cruising also means communicating with new friends on the
VHF. I sound very official. Bob is worried that I may not need him so much anymore. But he is safe, I can’t light the oven yet.
Yesterday I got Joan’s fabulous chocolate chip cookie recipe and set out to make the boat smell good! The oven is very tricky. You have to sit and watch the temperature gauge hanging inside the door and constantly adjust the heat. I also found out that you only cook on the top shelf – first batch smelled burnt from the hammock (or so I heard from above). But I saved most of them and have a very successful second batch!
The cookies came in handy when we did our first entertaining
last night. Cruising means meeting lots of people with great stories. And you know me, I’m digging for them. And I’m always comparing boats. Charisma really stands out. We are always glad to have people come on board.
We watched many boats come and go today. The largest being a mega-yacht complete with a helicopter on board and a motor boat that stores away. Another cruiser told me he left his helicopter at home because he couldn’t fit his helicopter AND his bikes. Bob left his helicopter at the ranch because the radio frequency wouldn’t work down here. (I could just imagine him delivering messages to other boats with his toy helicopter).
We leave Puerto Los Cabos tomorrow to parts that I have
never seen. Several of our new friends have moved ahead and we look forward to seeing them and exploring new spots. This cruising life is hard stuff but I think I can adjust!
But we do miss our families and friends (and pets-Hi Tiger, Marley, Eve and Grover ). Know that we think of you often and fondly. Keep the blog comments coming as sometimes we aren’t getting Facebook or email.
One more comment – friends last night looked at Bob and
exclaimed, “we were looking through all of our pictures thus far and just realized: you’re Tinkerbell! The wig didn’t disguise you enough!” Hard to hide in some crowds!
Oh – another lesson learned at Puerto Los Cabos Marina: never throw out a single flip flop. A friend knocked one of his flip flops off the dock while doing some work on his boat. His smart first mate convinced him
not to toss out the other one. They dinghyed over to join us for dinner. As we walked to dinner, there, next to the garbage can was his missing flip flop. It had floated all the way across the marina and someone had fished it out and put it on the dock!
