11/07/2009, It was a glorious feast!
Some might ask, why all the bandwidth dedicated to a hot dog cart and earlier a taco cart on what should be a sailing and cruising Blog? The answer is simple; cruising is as much about eating your way through the country you are visiting as it is about sailing. In fact, take away my sails and I'll still cruise happily along, but take away the fabulous and cheap local foods and I'd end this cruise immediately....for what fun would it be?
It's a Family Biz with Mom taking the money and the sons doing the cooking, Dad was off tonight.
Toppings include:Sauteed onions, roasted pepper, cheese wiz (ya I know, but it's Great!), onions, Tomatoes, mustard and Mayo
The Girls enjoying the Feast
Jason with Extra Cheese Wiz!
You will notice that there are no photos of the Admiral stuffing hot dogs into her mouth, after all, I'm not stupid, just crazy!
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11/07/2009, this is getting old
Like a bad dream that comes night after night, it would appear that my batteries (or my charging and electrical system) is acting up again. So on that last post about my To Do List, please add continued battery issues to the list! Once again, each morning the batteries are at 12v even after a full day of charging (engine, solar, and Generator), so it's back to the tear apart game to try and find the problem. First off will be a change out of the alternator and regulator before we pull anchor in the morning and continue south. We will spend much of the day motoring, which could provide and chance for the replacement alternator and regulator to property charge the batteries and then we will take it from there if the following morning we see our battery voltage back down to 12.0v. We are currently running our Honda generator to power our battery charger to add some Amps to the batteries to give us a fighting change to keep the voltage up through the night. It's not a good neighborly thing to run the generator at night in the anchorage, but alas, what else could we do.besides open the through hull fittings and sink her to the bottom, another great day in Paradise!
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11/06/2009, which means last day of real internet!
Today is our last day in Santa Rosilia and for our good-bye dinner, the crews of THIRD DAY and Windfall will do our best to clean out the Hot Dog stand. Since arriving several days ago, we have exhibited a great deal of self control and haven't yet had a famous bacon wrapped hot dog, which by the way is Illegal in Los Angeles, California. Could it be that the people in Mexico care more about a great tasting bacon wrapped hot dog than they do about food safety? Or is it just another small example of how Big Brother has gone out of control back in the US of A? I think most of you know the answer and I'll throw back a bacon wrapped hot dog this evening as a form of social protest to an over-zealous Los Angles County health department that only lists two approved ways to serve a hot dog: Boiled and Steamed. I'm sure there is some type of Mexican equivalent to the Health Department back in the States, but I have failed to see a placard hanging on a Mexican street vendor cart ranking the facility with a letter grade of "A", "B" or "C"; however, somehow, after a full year of cruising Mexico, we are still alive.
In fact, we are still alive despite all of the negative impressions many people have of Mexico, from swine flue, pirate attacks, corrupt officials, and roving gangs of drug lords. Sure Mexico has all of the above, just the same as Chicago, Los Angeles, Washing DC and even Bakersfield, but is a mugging or pirate attack the first thing you think about when someone tells you they are taking a trip to Florida? Not likely. A great deal of this worry may originate form the language barrier, but this also isn't as bad as one might expect. We know a fair amount of conversational Spanish, yet we run into cruisers every day that can barely say Taco and are still able to get by in Mexico, where many of the local residents that interact with the cruiser community have some limited English capabilities.
We will take a few photos of the hot dog stand and update them to this blog post after dinner, that is, if we survive the meal outlawed back in the land of the free.
In the morning we will be leaving Santa Rosilia and making the 27nm trip to Punta Chivato. The temperature in Santa Rosilia this time a year is much more tolerable than when we were here last August, but it's still warmer than the surrounding areas. The area has also recovered quickly from the devastation of hurricane Jimena. With people still living in FEMA trailers back in New Orleans, the recovery effort here almost looks like a miracle, but it simply a testament to the hard working nature of the Mexican people, who don't have a history of looking to the Government for help, but rather to themselves and their community. The people of Santa Rosilia should be rightly proud of their accomplishments post Jimena, with the freedom to eat bacon wrapped hot dogs as just icing on the cake!
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