Hello friends and family. I KNOW, I KNOW...it's been a long time coming. The interent capabities haven't been very accesible after we left Costa Rica heading for Panama, until now here in Puesta del Sol in northern Nicaragua. Our tri.p through western Panama was gorgeous. We were out on the boat for over 2 weeks, up to three sometimes without stopping in a town, just hanging in some lovely islands, and along some beautiful bays along the mainland. We were traveling with another boat called Claire de Lune with the couple, Jan & George Wilson. They have been out cruising for [View Full Entry]

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Hello Friends and Family The time has come for me to sit and write a little bit about our inland trips in southern Costa Rica, and put many photos on the blogsite. We've been here over 4 weeks now, 3 weeks in Golfito (taking side trips here and there), and one week up the bay to a place called Rincon. After a couple days here upon arrival we were taken to see the "feeding of the monkeys". There is a man who does this every day at 5:30am each day. His name is Patrick. Don't know much of his story, but [View Full Entry]

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Hello friends and family, We have been very busy over the last couple weeks with XMAS and New Years activities here in Golfito, so today is the day I will attempt to download the photos from our passage from Bahia Caraquez, Ecuador to Golfito, Costa Rica. Originally we had planned on heading to Cocos Island, which lies some 350 miles west of the Coast of Costa Rica. Then we thought of the price we would have to pay $80 per day just to float on top of the water to view the corals down below. As I have lived in the [View Full Entry]

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Hello all our friends and family. We took off on the 24th of October to head to the US to visit family and friends. Travel in a foreign country is always different and unexpected things can happen, and they ususally do when least expecting it. First off, our visit with family and friends went well. We really enjoyed our time with everyone. It seemed a little hectic at times, always knowing at the back of our minds, that we had an exit date, that our time with our families and friends was finite. We spent good times visiting and shopping for [View Full Entry]

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Hola, Buenas Dias mis amigos y amigas....Well this is my last blog for a while. We are heading to the states for 5 weeks of visiting friends and family, returning to Ecuador, and hopefully heading mid-December to the Galapagos for a couple weeks, then on to Isla Coco, which is off the coast of Costa Rica. Then on to Costa Rica, then down to Panama. Robin is working on boat projects, and I'm mentally getting myself ready for the next stage of this adventure...reading guide books, and getting our maps organized. After we left Puno and the Lake Titicaca area, we [View Full Entry]

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Hello friends and family. After leaving Cuzco we had been advised to take a certain tour bus to Puno (city next to Lake Titicaca). It left early in the morning, included 5 stops along the way, including a good buffet lunch. We didn't get a chance to pick our seat, and ended up at the back of the bus. It was a bus full of tourists, air-conditioned and very comfortable. We had drinks served along the route, a bathroom was available and a great tour guide name Hugo. He would speak in Spanish and English, as we did have some tourists [View Full Entry]

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Well, everyone, our land trip is winding down. We are pretty pooped, and a mite tired of living out of a backpack (or duffle in Robin´s case). We just reached Lima this morning after 15 hours on a first class bus. The seats relcined, we had dinner and breakfast served, and it came with a pillow and blanket. We sat right up top in front in one of these panorama busses. I really liked that, except when we went through some heavy fog last night, tried to close my eyes, adjust the seat belt, and drift off into sleepytime. Didn´t quite [View Full Entry]

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Hello friends and family, We left Cajamarca during the day and headed to the coast. One thing about these roads in Peru, they all follow a river down the mountain valleys. The coast was overcast and quite dismal, especially after being around some impressive mountain ranges and awesome vistas. We stopped only for a moment in Trujillo, then caught another bus to Chimbote. From Chimbote (where we stayed one night), we would be heading up back into the mountains to Huarez. Chimbote was quite the nondescript town. Spent an uneventful night there with a decent meal, then headed to the b [View Full Entry]

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Hello again folks, have a couple pictures I forgot to add. Also the one that says ¨spider boy¨on the step to the mirador...just a photo of Cajamarca from the top,. sorry about that. Also didn´t include a photo of the famous ranchera we rode to the border. Also....please excuse any mistakes in grammar or omissions, as it has taken me a few days to get this downloaded here in Peru. Thanks for all your patience with my writing and downloading. Lots of love, Jean [View Full Entry]

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Hello friends and family...it´s been quite some time since I´ve sat a this computer on this blog site, and lots have happened. First, a little bad news. I had taken photos of our first two weeks in southern Ecuador, and accidently deleted them, so sorry, not only for you all, but for Robin and I. Luckily we met up with a great cruising couple, named Terry and Tammy of s/v Secret o´Life, also anchored in Bahia Caraquez. I am using, with his consent some of his photos of places we both had visited. So mucho gracias to them both for their [View Full Entry]

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