Photo: Ian standing besides some rows of roma tomatoes. From a distance they almost look like grape vines.

After working diligently for a month and a half on Kasasa, we made a complete change of plans for our winter cruising season. It was getting chilly in the Sea as the north winds had started to blow, and we were wanting to get back to Tenacatita having decided we wanted to be in warmer climes. We have a short season this winter due to our visa's expiring so we need to be out of Mexico by the 3rd week of March. This wouldn't leave us with enough time to cruise to Tenacatita and back since I'm such a fair-weather cruiser. Weather windows and the distance of almost 900 miles each way would make it a tough slog. So we decided to just land cruise down there since we have such a great camper van and we are only a few days of driving away. And the bonus is we can do some inland trips we have often talked about doing by bus now we can camp and drive where we want.
If your reading this blog and thinking to yourself "this is supposed to be about sailing and cruising not camping" well sorry but we still feel like we are cruising even though it's a different means of transportation. Granted there are some differences like having to gas up the van and pay for camping most of the time but the rest is the same. We do the same things and we meet new people every day and we try to interact with the locals when we can.
We are trying out new areas that are not possible to get a sailboat into. We were in Teacapan which is a tiny fishing village at the mouth of a very large estuary. We walked into the town and found it to be a friendly place with a good street taco stand where we both had 2 tacos and a soft drink for 5 dollars total! Ian bought himself a machete for 5 bucks so he can now cut coconuts when we find them on the beach.
The drive since about 200 miles south of Guaymas has been lush and green as we are driving through the bread basket of Mexico. It's been fields and fields of tomatoes, peppers, greenhouses, orchards and corn. I guess we must have hit high farming season as everything is so green. The roma tomatoes grow on vines like grapes back home, rows and rows of them.
Today we packed everything up and decided to head to the town of San Blas where we are now. It's always been a favourite of ours so we want to experience it as RV'ers see if it's different or just the same great place.
Our plan is to follow the coast down to Tenacatita, spend a few weeks there and mid Feb, we will go inland for a couple of weeks and then start making our way north. So if you want to follow along on our new adventure, we welcome you. Just remember, we are still cruisers so our plans are still written in sand at low tide!