We can spend up to six months living on our boat in Mexico (as per the tourist visa) but then we have to come back and go to work to earn enough for the next sailing season. We don’t have a lot of back history to speak authoritatively but our summer season so far consists [read more...]
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We’ve been back on terra firma for about 10 days now and I am just wrapping up my annual RV maintenance week on our 1995 Fleetwood Bounder to prepare for our summer season traveling from Tucson, Arizona all the way up to North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and back down into Utah before we wrap it [read more...] It’s a wrap. Season two is complete. No, this is not a reality TV show or some family sitcom (often debatable), this is the end of our second winter that we have lived on our sailboat in the Sea of Cortez of Mexico’s Gulf of California with out two young children. Emma is an old [read more...] We motor/sailed back to San Carlos Wednesday. The Sea of Cortez was flat flat flat. We were only able to sail for about 5 hours out of a total 17. But the Honda outboard did great! We didnt even use 9 gallons for the crossing and could cruise at 6.6 kn [read more...] Hi All, A short note. We have been in Conception Bay on the Baja side of Mexico for about three weeks now. The water has warmed up so that we swim every day. We have met many friends on boats and in Palapas on the beaches. Services are pretty rustic still on [read more...] Walking out the door and driving away is the hardest part for any journey. We’ll be in Mexico for three months this trip and the planning, preparation, and provisioning for the trip is daunting. We not only have the obvious kids toys, clothes, food, diapers, medicines, but also the hard to find boat [read more...] I’ve been working (hardly working it seems at times) the last 23 days straight between the last two shows which overlapped leaving us no break in between. While it has not been extremely physically demanding it does require my presence for the long hours from opening to close every day. In the meantime, Hil has [read more...] We just wrapped up two shows here in Arizona (the only 2 shows we are doing this year in Arizona) and gross sales are down by about 35% on both shows. There could be a wide variety of factors contributing to lower sales but the only thing these two shows have in common is [read more...] Can you believe it? It was negative 4 degrees with the wind chill yesterday here in Tucson! The temp was 14 degrees in the morning and just barely broke freezing before dropping again in the afternoon. Last night was even worse but it’s warming up fast! We should be above freezing by 10am [read more...] We trekked back to the desert to work the Quartzsite Rv show for 9 days starting on the 22nd of January. This year they shifted the event a week back which overlapped the Tucson Gem show by 2 days. Luckly the organizer for the Gem show is letting us come in 2 days [read more...] |
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