Sitting here back at Bahia Caraquez. It's been a week since we came back from our moutain excursion inland. It didn't start out as I had planned, geeze....really.... We had gotten our bags packed, and brought along a big plastic garbage bag to put them in for extra protection. They were going to be put under the bus, with our smaller bags in our laps. As we got to the dingy dock, Robin simply threw the bags onto the dock, we picked them up and headed for the bus terminal. My plastic bag was in the front of my big backpack [View Full Entry]

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Photos were being downloaded, then the page expired, sorry, we try again with more photos. Love, Jean [View Full Entry]

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Somehow the page "timed out", so to speak, so here are the other photos, hopefully these will make it on. Chao, Jean [View Full Entry]

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We've been here for two weeks, now, and we seem to be settling in well. Robin has been doing some small boat projects; some plumbing issues, etc. Gotten ourselves into somewhat of a routine, after the initial, WOW had passed. After about 4 days here we had to take a trip into the port town called Manta for immigration visas. We had been told that it is a pretty big, dirty port town with lots of fishing fleets there, no cruisers. We also were told that the immigration people were only supposed to charge $15 for the boat, visas are free [View Full Entry]

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Well, we have finally arrived to our final sailing destination, at least for 6 months or so. We left Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica about 10 days ago. It took us 6 days to reach here, and entered the Rio Chone, and the town of Bahia Caraquez, on the seventh day in the morning. We kept watching the weather patterns, and it looked like there was going to be a lot of weather, no matter when we left, so after supposedly....a tropical wave had passed west of Costa Rica, we decided to head out. We had planned to go west as much [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone. Well, it's been about 12 days since we left Bahia de Sol, in El Salvador. Crossing over the bar there was a little intimadating, but we did it, and then headed out some miles from shore, and turned a slight left (port) towards Costa Rica. This area of Central America is known for Papagayo winds .they weren't kidding. We actually didn't get a true Papagayo wind, but it was blustery enough for us. It started out sweet, mellow, then we turned a cape, and it came right at us, a Southeast wind, right in the direction we wanted to [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Yep, we are still here in El Salvador. We are waiting to receive a Solenoid that we ordered, and the delivery missed the carrier by a few hours, so luckily we had a contact up in the same area (Seattle) who was flying down here about 5 days later. So through phone calls and overenighting the package UPS, supposedly it will arrive here Thursday. We may be leaving here Thursday, so we will have our friends, Bill & Jean, bring it to Ecuador. We are reading our weather files, and listening to a Pan Pacific Net in the mornings, [View Full Entry]

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A good friend, Bill, turned me onto Movie Maker from Microsoft on the computer, therefore I put together a video clip of us sailing into El Salvador. I added some music too! Hope it downloads, and I hope you enjoy it. Jean [View Full Entry]

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AFter the last blog, it was time to take a trip to the inland and see other parts of El Salvador. We hauled the dingy up onto the boat, and cleaned out the fridge. Had our friend, Theresa, take us ahore with our small backpacks with a few days of clothes. It's been a long time since I bussed it with a backpack, boy am I getting older...notice I didn't say OLD, just older. Robin's pack was longer and slimmer and mine was too wide, mostly it sat on my lap. Those dang hair products and face creams really can fill [View Full Entry]

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Well, we made it here in 5 days of wonderful travel. The week we were in Mexico in Huatulco was fun too, so I will start with that time period first. We pulled into the marina and it was sooooo nice to have a hose with water to wash all the salt off everything. We gathered together with other yatistas heading south like ourselves. We went out to eat, hung out on each other's boats and traded stories. We also did a good repair job on the radar, thanks to Mr. Bill, our sailor-helper guy. He is not the only one, [View Full Entry]

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