We are focused to say the least to get our "home" back in the water.

After 4 great days spent at the timeshare, meeting some wonderful people and celebrating an engagement with a fun couple we met we began our journey back to Puerto Escondido. The drive back was uneventful, thank goodness! The rental car was stuffed to the roof and the trunk full after loading the new dingy and stops at both Costco and Wal-Mart. We won't see more than small grocery stores or small tiendas once we leave Loreto so we wanted to stock up on staples to last us till we return to La Paz in November.

Elvin here at Puerto Escondido Services has done a great job and is ever helpful. We used his power washer to get the top sides as clean as they could be in a yard. He and his crew have now finished the epoxy and bottom paint, Scott got the new stuffing in the stuffing box (this was a big deal and a whole story in its self!). We have been unloading the car and putting the boat back together; slowly in 95+ temperatures and getting ready for our Saturday launch. We could go back in today but they don't run the lift everyday so we sit on the hard sleeping in air conditioning for another night. Yep, that is an adjustment we are yet to make, sleeping is 85 degree temperatures.

We are having to acclimate to the hot temperatures since we left and lived in cool Seattle for the past 10 weeks. The day highs have been between 95-98 since we've been here and inside the boat it is around 85 in the morning when we first get there and 100 or so in the afternoons when we leave (this should cool down once back in the water). We are sweating like nobody's business and drinking bottles of water. The canvas shade went up the first day which helps and outside we get a bit of a breeze that helps to cool us off. Today we hope to get the solar panels and the main sail back on and I have some things that now that the v-berth is getting cleared out I can start to stow away. We just try to stay focused and move slow but steady with frequent breaks.

We now have a photo gallery so I have posted some pictures there and will add to when we get some new shots.