We take back our previous bad mouthing of Escondido. It seems like a totally different place than the one we came to last spring. Whatever was the problem seems to have gone away cuz we really like the people here this time around. Everyone is friendly and the net is funnier than hell, with sound effects and everything (wish we had a good sound effect).

We hitched a short ride with campers to the Modelorama and got some supplies and spent time doing internet stuff. We let the net know that we lost our anchor in Ballandra in case anyone wanted to do some treasure hunting and had two people come back to offer to dive for it for us (no charge). Well we didn't expect that at all! Gave us all kinds of warm fuzzy feelings about Escondido.

Avery & Theresa on Tuna Can called back and said hey we're going to go out today and try to find it, can you go? Well sure, what the hell. They picked us up on a bitchin' red powerboat and we did 30 miles an hour over the water back to Ballandra. He tried for an hour and used up a tank of air in 60 degree water but Avery was unable to find our anchor this try. He said he could sure tell we got our asses kicked by the ravines our chain and rode made on the bottom. And he said it looked like we dragged both anchors a couple of times 30 feet this way and 30 feet that way! Wish we had an underwater picture of that. Yeah Delta anchor rocks! Like Timex, Delta takes a licking but keeps on plowing. Yeah ok so it doesn't have a snazzy rhyme but hooooooaaaaa baby it works! At least we have backup to our "we got our asses kicked out there" story!

Now we're finishing up our Escondido visit with food at the singular restaurant and the SuperBowl. Next internet will probably be in La Paz, which we think will be this week.