It started sometime in the early morning hours of Thursday 29th and for the next 24hrs I was sure that I was dying. What's come to be affectionately known as "Boren Drama" doesn't just apply to my blog posts. In fact blog post drama can't hold a candle to how handle being sick. I'm not sick often, but when I am, the world certainly is coming to an end. Some type of Bug has been spreading around with our friends on Hotspur and Just a Minute also getting hit. So as we wrap out 2010 this morning I can quite honestly and literally say that perhaps for the first time in a while, I'm not full of shit because my entire digestive system is completely empty.

Depending on how people feel later this afternoon, our New Year celebration is planned with Hotspur and Just a Minute but since cruiser midnight is known to be 9PM, we will be back on our boats and sleeping before most of the real partiers even hit the streets tonight.

In the next few days, I'll pull together our 2010 Cruising Costs and post those in summary form to see how we did compared to 2009 but as a guess, I think we were able to shave about 30-40% off our 2009 numbers while still living what we consider a pretty opulent lifestyle afloat.

Things are still looking on track for us to depart Mazatlan on January 5th and head for our Mexican home port of San Blas in the state of Nayarit. We are all looking forward to the home coming and seeing our local friends again and seeing what we can do to help them in the repairs of their house that was damaged in last summer's rains.