Well all, I´ve got some not good news to share in that my computer seems to have bit the dust. I can´t be for sure yet, but thats what it looks like right now.
I need some advice if any of you know anything about macs and might have a clue about what I should do. Here´s the dilemma: when I turn my computer on, it makes the usual whizzing noise of the hard drive, but then about 5-10 seconds into it it makes three low beeps, and then stops. The light on the screen release button stays on but blinks about every 15 seconds. The screen never comes on, nothin´, it just stops.
So anyway we can still post the goings on from wherever we are from internet cafe´s or whatever but the pictures, the really cool parts, are m.i.a. for the time being.
Right now we are still in Sayulita but on the countdown for when we leave. The plan thus far is this: on thursday we are going to go have Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of gringo cruisers at a bar/music studio/restaurant/community center in a town south of here called La Cruz. The place is called Philo´s and we got to meet Philo through Richard and Doña the other morning at breakfast.
From there we are going to go to Jillapa which is on the south side of the bay from Puerto Vallarta. Jillapa is this sweet jungle town with sweet waterfalls and animal watching and lots of hiking. They also teach para sailing in Jillapa. We plan on being there until Sunday, and then go back up to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate Katy´s birthday on the 2nd and also we have to buy some nice shirts so we can look good when we are looking for a job in Antigua.
Then we are taking a bus to Mexico city to jump on a plane on the 3rd. Our trip is: Mexico City to Cancun, Cancun to Miami, Miami to Kingston, Jamaica where we layover for 18 hrs, then straight to Antigua from there. We are going to this huge yacht show there where we are going to find jobs, and most likely spend the rest of the winter and spring (at least until Antigua race week in April).
This is all contingent on the fact that we have to wait here in Sayulita for our ?paper plane tickets¿ to arrive from Katy´s awesome mom who sent them to us. Nonetheless we have a full schedule awaiting us.
Lately all we´ve been doing is surfing, eating, reading, and meeting a lot of really cool people. Yesterday we met a guy down on the beach who is from Naniamo BC who has a little laser sailboat that we get to use. We talked sailing with him for a long time which was really fun.
Sayulita has been a haven and made us restless for more on-the-water time. We try to surf or boogie board everyday but the holiday season has got this place bumpin with the latest swimsuit and territorial surfer trends. We have eaten almost a million tacos del pastor with so many onions soaked in habaneros that we are ensured to forever remember this place. Taking advantage of undetected deals we have been eating real churros from the back of a truck, purchase six get the seventh cerveza free at the bodega, choco bananas with coconut granola and hand made totillas with anything you order. Locals try hard with our broken spanish and their conversational english to be as helpful an silly as possible, dogs that have party play time down at the beach all day long are never mean, and so much lazy sun we keep learning to just chill out. We can´t wait to get back out on the water and start sailing again! Asta Mañana Amigas and Amigos, we love you all and are super thankful for having you read our chatter.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
The smooth journey ch. I
Sorry it's been a while since we've been in touch with you all. We ended up in this beautiful little surf town called Sayulita. And since this is the first time that we have not had any kind of boat responsibilities and we're finally on our own time, we're taking advantage and not doing anything. And I can't express enough how wonderful it's been.
We left off in San Diego which I know was a really long time ago, but here's Katy's take on the journey from there:
Leaving San Diego was so amazing. Boats everywhere, supposedly there were 180 boats signed up but 140 actually made it out there. Then on the way down to Tortuga (Turtle) Bay the numbers dropped again. One boat was said to be so seasick they just turned around and went back. Anyhow, two hours or so from San Diego and we were in Mexico, within two days we were in Tortuga Bay. Not known for turtles any more but incredibly beautiful, ravaged by the hurricane at the end of the summer, the houses were just skeletons… the all cement tourist bar was still standing, alongside some houses and the grocery store. Mexico has been an interesting example of putting tourism before so much else, but more about that later. So we spent a night there drinkin cheap beer, tequila and buying every type and color of pepper at the grocery store. Then we sailed south to Bahia Santa Maria, one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen in our lives. Unfortunately we left the camera on board, something we will be kickin ourselves for along time. The bay looks large yet there are these massive rocks that lay just under the water line. The rocks that poke outta the water are great swimming and fishing spots, crab, lobster and birds everywhere. Dolphins were swimming and jumping in the wake of our dinghy and this was the closest we got to actually touching one. On the trip down the entire coast all different types of porpoises would come out and swim just under and around our boat, but it wasn’t until Mexico that three would show up and then their whole family and friends would come and flirt and play with us. One night they came up to the boat and it looked like dolphins in space with the phosphorescence trails behind them as they jumped, spun and guided us into the harbor.
In Bahia Santa Maria we camped on the beach in a mangrove forest that had the tiniest seashells and sand dollars everywhere. This was after we hiked a peak that looked out over the peak that protected the harbor where numerous sunken ships lay, sand dunes for a few miles that lead to a bay on the other side of a small peninsula, and a mangrove forest next to the loveliest and most desolate beach we had seen. It was amazing, some friends of ours told us that on another point they found a can where a spam and egg sandwich was advertised on the front. The can also said that the sammy was so easy to eat, like on a scale of 1 being watching TV and a 10 making a TV it was like a 2. These guys were on the boat Gypsy and were totally rad, Justin the captain was a young guy going to Nicaragua to be an engineer and wanted us to charter his boat, a Newport 30. Chad and Eddie were his buds and super skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anyhow, on the way down from the peak we saw numerous cacti in bloom, colors and textures unknown to our imaginations till then. Then we almost walked right into this CRAZY spider web with the coolest spider ever! Its body was like 1.5cm wide and 2.5cm long and with it’s legs was at least 2 or so inches wide. The belly was like a zebra, white with black stripes and this pattern followed its legs, but the back was like a white turtle shell with a crazy black transformersesque design, so totally RAD! We kicked it on the beach and drank brews and held foot races with another sweet crew from the boat Banyon. This is another young guy who has toured the world surfing and water poloing and sells film footage of all kinds of things to major TV corporations. His two super cool dude friends and finally Kim, a super badass rad chick. They surfed everywhere and had cameras all over their boat.
Sailed down to Cabo San Lucas where the coastline is beautiful, so much of the Baja coast is really dessert like and dry rocky mountains. The hurricane dropped off a ton of water but you only really notice tiny cacti and trees when you’re hiking around. The rocks outside of Cabo are stunning, big arches and then there is this booming city/suburbia sprawl all around it. Cabo was madness, super Americanized and blatant plagiarism of everything we were trying to get away from. Super expensive glow-in-the-dark drinks that make cotton tops dance on tables and playing the worst radio jams with neon spider mans staring you down next to the cardboard cut out Hulk. LAME SAUCE, so we wandered the street with the Gypsy boys and drank tequila and found a mall with the entire upstairs floor undeveloped. So much of Cabo was store fronts with nothing behind it, and the biggest cockroaches, and fruit cups with spicy sauce on it (extra tasty) for $1 and the list goes on. We couldn’t wait to leave and the LunaSea was heading north to tour the Sea of Cortez. I am sure that Las Paz and that sea is incredible, but we lucked out and got on a 64ft. catamaran Profligate. This boat is owned by Richard and Dona, he started Latitude 38 and is one of the coolest dudes ever. Loves to surf, chill, write and sail spinnakers that made the boat go 12knots in 3.5knot wind
I have to go meet Katy on la playa por un margarita. Mas mañana. Hasta luego.
Leaving San Diego was so amazing. Boats everywhere, supposedly there were 180 boats signed up but 140 actually made it out there. Then on the way down to Tortuga (Turtle) Bay the numbers dropped again. One boat was said to be so seasick they just turned around and went back. Anyhow, two hours or so from San Diego and we were in Mexico, within two days we were in Tortuga Bay. Not known for turtles any more but incredibly beautiful, ravaged by the hurricane at the end of the summer, the houses were just skeletons… the all cement tourist bar was still standing, alongside some houses and the grocery store. Mexico has been an interesting example of putting tourism before so much else, but more about that later. So we spent a night there drinkin cheap beer, tequila and buying every type and color of pepper at the grocery store. Then we sailed south to Bahia Santa Maria, one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen in our lives. Unfortunately we left the camera on board, something we will be kickin ourselves for along time. The bay looks large yet there are these massive rocks that lay just under the water line. The rocks that poke outta the water are great swimming and fishing spots, crab, lobster and birds everywhere. Dolphins were swimming and jumping in the wake of our dinghy and this was the closest we got to actually touching one. On the trip down the entire coast all different types of porpoises would come out and swim just under and around our boat, but it wasn’t until Mexico that three would show up and then their whole family and friends would come and flirt and play with us. One night they came up to the boat and it looked like dolphins in space with the phosphorescence trails behind them as they jumped, spun and guided us into the harbor.
In Bahia Santa Maria we camped on the beach in a mangrove forest that had the tiniest seashells and sand dollars everywhere. This was after we hiked a peak that looked out over the peak that protected the harbor where numerous sunken ships lay, sand dunes for a few miles that lead to a bay on the other side of a small peninsula, and a mangrove forest next to the loveliest and most desolate beach we had seen. It was amazing, some friends of ours told us that on another point they found a can where a spam and egg sandwich was advertised on the front. The can also said that the sammy was so easy to eat, like on a scale of 1 being watching TV and a 10 making a TV it was like a 2. These guys were on the boat Gypsy and were totally rad, Justin the captain was a young guy going to Nicaragua to be an engineer and wanted us to charter his boat, a Newport 30. Chad and Eddie were his buds and super skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anyhow, on the way down from the peak we saw numerous cacti in bloom, colors and textures unknown to our imaginations till then. Then we almost walked right into this CRAZY spider web with the coolest spider ever! Its body was like 1.5cm wide and 2.5cm long and with it’s legs was at least 2 or so inches wide. The belly was like a zebra, white with black stripes and this pattern followed its legs, but the back was like a white turtle shell with a crazy black transformersesque design, so totally RAD! We kicked it on the beach and drank brews and held foot races with another sweet crew from the boat Banyon. This is another young guy who has toured the world surfing and water poloing and sells film footage of all kinds of things to major TV corporations. His two super cool dude friends and finally Kim, a super badass rad chick. They surfed everywhere and had cameras all over their boat.
Sailed down to Cabo San Lucas where the coastline is beautiful, so much of the Baja coast is really dessert like and dry rocky mountains. The hurricane dropped off a ton of water but you only really notice tiny cacti and trees when you’re hiking around. The rocks outside of Cabo are stunning, big arches and then there is this booming city/suburbia sprawl all around it. Cabo was madness, super Americanized and blatant plagiarism of everything we were trying to get away from. Super expensive glow-in-the-dark drinks that make cotton tops dance on tables and playing the worst radio jams with neon spider mans staring you down next to the cardboard cut out Hulk. LAME SAUCE, so we wandered the street with the Gypsy boys and drank tequila and found a mall with the entire upstairs floor undeveloped. So much of Cabo was store fronts with nothing behind it, and the biggest cockroaches, and fruit cups with spicy sauce on it (extra tasty) for $1 and the list goes on. We couldn’t wait to leave and the LunaSea was heading north to tour the Sea of Cortez. I am sure that Las Paz and that sea is incredible, but we lucked out and got on a 64ft. catamaran Profligate. This boat is owned by Richard and Dona, he started Latitude 38 and is one of the coolest dudes ever. Loves to surf, chill, write and sail spinnakers that made the boat go 12knots in 3.5knot wind
I have to go meet Katy on la playa por un margarita. Mas mañana. Hasta luego.
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