Spent the remaining time in Barra/Colimilla waiting for a weather window to depart and going back and forth on the bus to Manzanillo. My stupid banda ancha was not working and the closest office of IUSACELL is in Manzanillo. I got no satisfaction from them and bought another brand (Movistar) to at least get online and check weather and Facebook. It was sad saying goodbye to Maria, Enrique, and Yoana. Had a nice dinner at their place and they gave me hand made(by them) gifts for Gabriella. Oh, let me step back a moment and tell you about my trip north in the car. I left Colimilla without Mayra and little Abby because Maria wanted to say goodbye to her daughter and granddaughter at the airport. She wanted to squeeze every last second out of the visit. So I planned on sleeping in the back of the van to save precious little cruising money for cruising. I drove straight through to Mazatlan (with a little mishap in the San Blas tidal lands) and got a hotel room for 250pesos. Then drove the rest of the way to Guaymas and parked in the fuel dock area of Singlar marina where I could plug into electricity and have fast wifi. Boy was that a rough nite...raunchy fish smells...noise..and a very uncomfortable sleep in the back of the van. I have a card key to the shower facilities, so that was a plus. I drove to Nogales the next morning to turn in my import permit for the car and get my deposit back. On the way there, I kept stopping to add water to the radiator because I sprung a leak partly because of the incident in the San Blas region and partly due to an unexpected leak when cleaning and changing the antifreeze. Anyway, on the way back it got to be every twenty minutes I had to stop and pour water into the radator. Then I remembered I had a can of stop-leak somewhere in the car. I found it and poured it in and what do you know...it worked. Got back to Guaymas and got a hotel room for 150 pesos...you get what you pay for...trust me! The next morning I said my goodbyes to Horacio, Marlyn, and sweet Ariana....who now has a serious boyfriend..darn! Got on the slowest bus in all of Mexico to Tepic where in the middle of the night got another bus to Puerto Vallarta. Then in Puerto Vallarta I got another bus to Barra De Navidad. to recap the car trip...three days of driving, then 40 hours on a bus...this is not cruising! I will leave here for Mazatlan in the morning and hang around Mazatlan for a few days waiting for a perfect weather window to cross the southern part of the Sea of Cortez to head for beautiful La Paz. About six weeks left for this cruising season.....Gabriella, I'm coming home!