Lil' Rumi Boat

We've been in the Zihuatanejo area for the past three weeks, and have enjoyed the heck out of this place. It's been a great social time, and we've had tons of fun with our great friends from Isis . We've also made a nice connection with the folks from the vessel Blue Bottle - Adrienne is a lovely, deeply soulful woman, and Joe has connected with Lisa playing music, and with Dan because they are both photography nuts. We hope to meet up with them again at some point in our journeys. Click here to check out our first batch of photos from Zihuat. As we've mentioned in past blogs, Zihuat has great food options, and we've explored as many of them as possible on our small budget. Indoor Market The central market, which is in a large downtown building, houses fruit and vegetable stands, butcher shops, fresh seafood vendors, eateries, juice bars and other shops. It is a true multi-sensory experience. Our eyes have feasted on the colorful fruits and vegetables; ou...

Although you may be tired of seeing pictures of us in beautiful places, we can honestly say that we are not tired of being in beautiful places. The area north of Santa Rosalia has not been a disappointment in that respect. We've had a glorious month of sailing in the northern Sea (click on the map below to link to our googlemap page where we have descriptions of the places we visited). Actually, northern is a bit of a misnomer, as there is quite a lot of the sea north of where we sailed. We made it as far north as Refugio, an anchorage on the northern tip of Isla Angel de la Guarda. Tomorrow we being our journey south to La Paz where we will cross over to the mainland and continue south to Zihuatanejo. As fate and the winds would have it (there was a potential hurricane on the horizon), the crew of Isis decided to head to Refugio with us and Limerick instead of beginning their own southern sojourn. So we got to spend an additional couple of weeks hanging out with Burke, Kacey and ...

A week ago, Lisa and Dan joined Burke, Kacey and Quinn for the maiden voyage of Isis . We set out on a four-day trip, and ended up staying out five days. We would have been away longer, but we ran out of beer, ice and cocktail mixers (oh, and food, too). And there was the gentle-but-persistent feeling that there was some reason that Lisa and Dan had to get back to La Paz... namely, Rumiko , waiting for her thorough scrub-down and engine installation. Thursday, March 5th was sunny and gorgeous as we headed out of La Paz. We motored out of the main channel, where we passed by the Bercovich boat yard and Rumiko . The oil tanker anchored upwind from the yard provided a great photo-op. Once out of the main channel we headed north for Isla Espiritu Santo and Isla Partida. While Burke and Kacey tested out various equipment on Isis , (the sails, diesel engine, GPS, etc.), Dan and Lisa soaked in both the sun and a lot of new information. Just before dusk we pulled into our anchorage at Caleta...