La Paz and Todos Santos

It is another great morning in La Paz so I thought I would put together another blog so you can see some of the views I have here each day.

It gets warm here, or should I say HOT. However, the winds cool everything down to the high 60's in the late afternoon through the evening so sleeping is great. I wish I could say this will continue but the locals say next month it will remain hot all day and evening. That is why I am coming back to San Francisco so I can complain about the cold fog.

Those of you that I get to visit when I return will have to tell me if I have lost wieght. I think I have. I walk around town every day in the hot sun which can be as much as a mile or two and that will take the pounds off of anyone.

The boat is finally clean top to bottom. I oiled all of the wood down below given the extreme temperatures it will be going through while down here in Mexico. I am having someone check my cooling system tomorrow to hopefully give it a good bill of health. I also changed the oil the other day while it was cool, so the boat is ready to sail off again as soon as I return from California.
The beach front along the center of town has some wonderful sculptures which I have taken photos of to just prove to everyone that I am cultured after all. Even if I hang out in dive bars. To show everyone that I have not lost my sense of reality I thought I would share the first one that I could really get my arms around.

Some of you will notice that many of my photos do not have images of people in them. One of my friends got very mad at me once when I took her photo while at her cabin in the mountains, telling me I should ask first before taking photo and that it was very rude not to. So I have become very sensitive to this every since and I take care not to take photos of strangers that I can not first ask. Who said I can not become politically correct?

Here are some of the other sculptures along the water front.

The harbor I am in is towards the left side in the back of the photo that shows a woman holding a sea shell.

As a change in pace and scenery, I took a bus ride yesterday to a town across from here on the Pacific side of Baja. Todos Santos is a small town where an artist colony is growing. Many artists from outside Mexico are moving there and opening shops. One day it may be compared to Santa Fe, New Mexico. I think the most interesting was the bus ride and the country side that I viewed traveling down the road. All desert, skinny cows and small shacks where people lived and survive some how.

Here are some photos that I took to share with you all.

Hot Pepers!!!

Well that is all for now. This is getting too much like work and the reports that Randy asked me to do while at CSAA.

I will see you all when I get back to California.

Denny

We Made It---La Paz

The killer fish I caught

Made foe speed. I was going a a speed of 8MPH when I caught him. Tasted GREAT

Look at the blue waters.


Like many of the small villages we anchored near

Like many of the cafes we eat at.

Casing off of small shrimp on shore

We made a new friend

Cabo San Lucas at the Marina. Several places to spend your money

Another small village

A beach anchorage

Does anyone recognize this?

Very small cafe.

WOW! Has it been one month since I posted the last Blog? I guess so. There has been a lot of water that has passed under Dolce Vita since then and a continuation of the adventure. If you have watched our progress on the Locator web site that I gave you, I am not going to bore you about each location other than to add some photos that may highlight some of the spots.

We had only two problems after leaving San Diego and we solved both of them as we have become pros at fixing stuff without the advantage of going to a hardware store or calling a mechanic.

We continued to enjoy the many people we met and the food we ate along the way. I can't say what my favorite spot was because each one was so different.

We had to do more than expected number of 24 hour sails but other than finding ourselves tired after those legs, they were uneventful while in Mexican waters.

My sailing partner, Bob, went back to California yesterday after spending a day and a half in La Paz. He is retired and has been for some time, but he had to get back to his part time job before he got fired. Not the kind of retirement I want to spend.

Bob and I were together in a very small spot for 2 months and through that time and all that happened, we got along just fine. Each of us were a little cranky in the mornings, especially Bob when I said we were pulling anchor at 6 in the morning :). I found out during this trip that he enjoys sleeping until 10:00 am every morning. Since I enjoy rising at 6:00 am, I was not his best friend in the mornings.

Bob joined me in Monterey as a good sailor and left the boat in La Paz as a great sailor. I will always be very grateful to him for joining me on this trip and making it possible.

I am now sitting in the Marina de La Paz with a number of other cruisers and enjoying the town, the food and again the people. My Spanish is also improving at a fast pace.

I am going to stay here until July 1st when I fly back to Minnesota for Mom's memorial and then onto California to visit my family and friends our there. I am not sure how I am going to survive the cooler weather back home but I don’t think I will be sitting in the back yard in my shorts without a shirt. I will be in California for 2 months and I promise I will make an effort to see everyone.