Sometimes it seems that the further away you are, the more you are reminded of home. We arrived in the estuary at San Blas only to find we had seemingly ventured into one of our old haunts off the Columbia and Willamette Rivers: We seemed to have entered the Multnomah Channel of Mexico; Sauvie Island [...]

Alas, we will have to be away from family again this Christmas. It looks like we will be taking part in a cruisers Christmas dinner at a neighboring marina instead, and we are looking forward to that. However, we have gotten gifts in the mail to Dave's kids and grandkids, so we feel like a piece of [...]

12/23/09, Marina Mazatlan, 23 16 N latitude; 106 27 W longitude

Whoa -- It seems like we're back with our blog. Sorry to leave you up in the air while we were absent, but for some reason we lost access to our blog, then we got busy with other things, then we kind of forgot about it. Now we've remembered it and have gotten access and are going to try to be more [...]

It's hard to believe but we have been living on Tamara for almost 9 months. We are still enjoying it!!!!!! At this point it's hard to understand why we think we need all the space of a house and all the assorted trimmings. However, in all likelihood, it won't take us too long to find we need all that [...]

We arrived at the Marina El Cid in Mazatlan on Friday, January 30. Since arriving, it has been a time for reunions. First, we were able to catch up with long-time friends Jack and Mary Ann from back home at Rose City Yacht Club. They were just finishing up a month's vacation, and we had dinner with [...]