At this point, I guess I should surface from hiding and address the rumors that THIRD DAY secretly left Morro Bay and the crew is sneaking towards the Mexican border. It's not such a bad rumor really, but everyone knows you don't head South to Mexico until November once the threat of Pacific Hurricanes is over, so much for the credibility of that rumor. I don't really have any decent excuse for not making a blog post in a month, but I have thought of a bunch, played them out in my mind and on a few occasions even cracked myself up. Looking in from the outside, the day to day activity of a family of 4 living aboard in Morro Bay with the kids going to high school, me working all day from the chart table and Lori starting a new job just doesn't seem to have the same excitement as life in Mexico. But from the inside, the excitement is here day to day, but the time to post and talk about it simply isn't. Ok sure, we wake up now in our estuary anchorage to a cell phone alarm clock rather than the sound of Roosters roaming the streets of San Blas but it's still just as hard to drag the kids out of bed.

When I think about it, maybe the real problem with the lack of blog posts isn't one of "time", but one of familiarity. It's more fun for me to blog about new experiences than just day to day life. We started living aboard in August of 2008, so now starting our 6th year a lot of the interesting details are just another day or normal life. Mowing the grass and tending the yard on land has been replaced with scrubbing the growth off the boat and dingy hull. Doing dishes each night by hand seems as normal to us now as loading the dishwasher. The daily obsession of watching the ships batter level, pumping the toilet rather than flushing, and other life aboard specifics are now just normal, no matter how abnormal they seem to the majority of society that couldn't imagine living in a space under 500sq feet. The main story here seems to be that what was once abnormal, has now become normal to the crew and talking about "normal' just isn't as much fun. But the good news is that to us, it's still a blast living it!