Well it is time to start to head north back home to San Diego. Our friends Bob and Darlene Spriggs arrived and will make the passage with us to San Jose del Cabo where Penny and Darlene will fly home on Friday the 13th and Fletcher Pond will arrive to help Bob and I make the passage to San Diego. Right now the weather looks grim so we may not leave right away but will monitor the weather looking for a window. In the meantime we had a fun day in La Paz on Sunday as we went to see the start of the Dos Mares 500 off road race. It started about 30 miles out of La Paz and we parked right on the start line and watched about 150 cars start 1 minute apart. Quite exciting watching the 850 horse power trophy trucks take off. Talk about noise, smoke and dust and of course we were downwind and got very dusty. Fun time and then the cars were finishing in La Paz late in the night and early morning. We were tired and slept through. We left La Paz and stopped in Los Muertos for two nights. Nice and calm the first night but rolly last night. We went into the Los Suenos hotel and had a drink and looked at Steve Games train collection - a lot of it came from “Frank the Trainman” who had quite the train shop in San Diego in the old days. Barbequed Arrachera last night and played dominoes. Girls won again! We are now on our way to Los Frailes and should arrive in late afternoon and will spend the night and then leave for Puerto Los Cabos in the morning. Penny's Two Cents: Watching the Dos Mares start was a blast! They start on a scratchy, pebbly dirt road and a couple of the race starts were so squirrely that I thought for sure bystanders or at least a dog or two would bite the dust. (Nope, didn't happen.) It was a smooth trip down through the Cerravalo Channel to Los Muertos and this morning is glass calm. Boppy's Star, Ross and Juli Macdonald, cruised into the anchorage about 3:30 yesterday afternoon having just made the cross over from Puerto Vallarta and they're headed up to La Paz for a month - lucky ducks! It was sad leaving La Paz and all of the wonderful friends that we have met along the journey - Fred and I hope that they will remain life-long friends. Signing off for now -p