JC McDowell and the Family Unit

Here’s your chance!  Yes you too can be the star of a reality TV show and make complete ASSES out of yourself in front of BILLIONS of people.

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Hello, I figured I’d leave a comment because I couldn’t locate your email. I’m working with an award-winning production company and a top-rated national cable network to [read more...]

Whew, we made it.

Hil REALLY hurt her back on her last show of the season in Douglas and has slowing been recuperating. The Doc she was seeing in Jackson said he expects a full recovery- in time. Which is good and she’s getting more mobile every day.

In the meantime, my used MacBook Pro [read more...]

Who wants to preview drafts of ebooks I am writing based on the different topics we’ve written about on this blog?

We plan on writing short (and cheap) quck start guides to many of the most popular posts on www.jcmcdowell.com starting this summer. I would love to offer free previews for feedback to the regular [read more...]

We have some time here in La Paz while we’re waiting on parts from the States. So we decided to put out the word that we were looking for a cheap beginner windsurfing rig that we could play with on the beach. Just south of La Paz is La Ventana, a well know [read more...]

We recently Skype’d with our parents from sunny La Paz,Mexico on the Baja of Mexico in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). While the kids played at the three story play park in the Burger King on the malecon (boardwalk) we used their WIFI to connect with family. Our iPod has the front [read more...]

After we returned from Tucson end of January, I put the word out we were looking for a watermaker on the cheap. We hit it just right amd arrived friday with a swap meet on Saturday. Clearing the bilge we had a few items remaining to swap. Wandering around, I noticed a [read more...]

It’s not near as bad as it sounds. We are anchored about 100′ off the Malecon (boardwalk) in 4′ of water with almost everything within walking distance.

We took a leisurely 3 weeks to sail from San Carlos to San Juanico to Isla Coronado to Loreto to Escondido to Aqua Verde to Puerto las Gatos [read more...]

So we’ve been casually working with the girls and introducing basic numbers and words in spanish. Tonight we asked Charley (age 2) if she could count to five in spanish.

She said,”Sure- Uno, Dos, Tres, Taco, Cinco.”

You know an ICE COLD draft beer in Mexico is a very affordable price of approximately $1.25! [read more...]

Small hiccup getting down to Mexico. It’s raining!

What’s the big deal?

It never rains in Arizona. As a result, we work outside. We pull out the table saws, benches, paint, and tools and work in the driveway. A garage is a place you store your tools. I have to [read more...]

We’ve finished our marketing month for the Young Guns Wild West Fun Park and we are almost ready to head south of the border into Mexico for the Holidays. I’m trying to finish building a sink cabinet for the Sprinter van and Hil and I want to weed down some stuff in storage here [read more...]