You could be forgiven for thinking we've dropped off the edge of the world. Hopefully you will be relieved to learn we have not. We've just been busy; busy enjoying lazy days in La Paz... in the company of old and new friends, at Marina Palmira, Dock 3.
It's funny really... how quickly we assume addresses at every port. We (Kathy and I) are members of the Dock 3 'family' at Marina Palmira, the Dock 4 family at Marina Mazatlan, the B Dock family at Marina El Cid, and the C Dock family in Marina San Carlos. Each of these 'families' consist of those cruisers who commonly frequent each location at approximately the same time. It's quite a fluid arrangement and the group dynamics change each time one boat arrives or another leaves. But it's wonderful to look forward to reconnecting with old friends and to welcome new members to the family as they arrive. We will miss (and I think we will be missed by) those family members we will be saying adios to when we ship home... and that's quite a sad reality. Until now, each time we've said goodbye it really means... see you next season.
Not so this year. We have six weeks left to enjoy sailing in the Sea of Cortez before we hand SSpirit's key to a good friend who will deliver her to her 'ride' home. We will precede her and fly out on May 19th. SSpirit will wait patiently for her new life as a B.C. coastal cruiser to begin. She is supposed to be picked up by the freighter sometime between May 25 and June 25. We're told the date will become more apparent once the freighter is through the Panama Canal.
For now we are in La Paz, waiting for some bigger winds to blow through (what else?) and then we will head up into the Loreto area for our last few weeks of gunk-holing in the Sea of Cortez.
I'll write again when there's news to tell... Hope all is well with each of you...and those spring flowers are popping up everywhere for you to enjoy.
Adios for now amigos y amigas... CJ
Posted by: Carolyn (via Kathy's Google mail profile)
