Well it's been a very busy couple of weeks. Our friends Pat and Les arrived in Puerto Vallarta on April 6th to spend some time with us and to make the passage to the Baja. Since I'm hoping for a guest blog I won't go into to too much detail but we left PV on the 9th with stops in Chacala, San Blas, Isla Isabela and Mazatlan before crossing the Sea of Cortez to San Jose del Cabo which is where they got off and flew home from. It was an awesome 2 weeks and we thank them for their company and help on board Kasasa. It's so much more fun to do a long passage with extra people to do watches and help with cooking etc. So stay tuned to see what they might have to blog about the trip. So here we are back on the Baja side of Mexico. The water is a stunning blue colour on this side and I think that's because there are very few estuaries to muddy up the water. At least that's my theory. On the mainland side of Mexico, it's one estuary after another all the way down the coast. It's not that the water isn't clear it's just darker in colour not as pretty. It's a shock to see the barren landscape of the desert again after the lushness of the mainland. But that's part of the beauty here, the stark contrasts in colours between the rocks, cactus and the sea. So I'm sure some of you are probably asking yourselves why are they still in Mexico after a year and a half - were they not planning on going further south maybe? Well the truth of the matter is that we are at a crossroads and are not sure where our travels will take us from here. Ian would like nothing more that to set the sails and head across the Pacific ocean towards the South Pacific islands. While in theory I think it is a very alluring idea, the reality is that I have discovered that I don't really care for the long passages and often feel anxious and stressed when we are about to do one of more than 10 hours or so. It's a disability and we haven't figured out how to deal with it. How to satisfy both our needs when they are 180 degrees apart? There are options like Ian sailing the boat (with crew) and I meet him there via airplane but it's not how we both imagined the trip while we were still in Vancouver dreaming about it. So for now the plan (or lack thereof) is to stay in Mexico and in July put the boat to bed for a couple of months and take a trip to BC to visit friends and family and just take a look around at our various options. We are hoping that some distance from our day to day life aboard Kasasa will give us a perspective or an answer that we can't see from here. It's a strange existence living day to day with out a plan past the next few months. It's sometimes scary not knowing what comes next but it also holds a hint of excitement in the 'anything is possible' kind of way. We will continue to enjoy Mexico as it has so much to offer. We love the climate, the people are both friendly and kind, the food is yummy, the ocean is warm, awesome sealife and living like a gypsy going from place to place is still something we love. So having said all that, the next couple of months the blogs will be coming from the beautiful Baja.