"We were following your blog and then it stopped. We figured you really went CRUISING!"

This sentiment from Bill on Apple II is the sort of thing that throws down the gauntlet and gets one writing again. Perhaps some excuses will help get us over the hump.

Excuse #1: "It was too hot to write." While technically not true, we are not such stalwarts that the daily 100 degree temperatures didn't affect us. Cruiser lore has it that there is no sex to be had in the Sea of Cortez during the summer; blogs suffer similarly. Sweating freely throughout the day and night reduces the appetite for a lot of things.

Excuse #2: "It was too hot to write on the computer." This part is entirely true. I am rather proud that I outlasted my 13-month-old laptop in the heat. Its specification sheet guarantees nothing when the ambient temperatures rise above 95 degrees, and it got well above 100. The computer stopped charging, and then a few days later Windows Vista froze (it was the only thing freezing, ha ha) for the last time. Now I have a new laptop, the temps are down, and life in general can resume.

Excuse #3: "There wasn't that much to write about." This is also true. Enervated by the heat and trepidatious about hurricanes, chubascos and their lesser weather cousins we spent a couple of months growing to the seafloor in Puerto Escondido. Somehow we just didn't do all that much that seemed worth writing about. Too, Hurricane Jimena dwarfed our emotions.

Now that we have that out of the way, there's lots to write about. In the coming weeks I will be filling the blog going all the way back to June. Simultaneously, I will be keeping up-to-date as we head north again.