Sunrise on Sunday, February 12
We were craving Italian food. We took the 1310 shuttle into town to get some. The shuttle was about 12 minutes late (relevant for Monday’s story).
Someone had recommended a place called Locos Por la pasta (Crazy for Pasta), located across the street from the north side of the art museum.
Sunrise on Saturday, February 11. It was another morning where the clouds mostly, but not completely, blocked the sun.
We’d made an appointment at the fuel dock to get 250-gallons of fuel. As you can tell from the photo above, it was a low-wind day, so it was perfect for moving Kosmos to the fuel dock and back.
Since we were moving Kosmos anyway, we decided to take her for a short spin in the bay to give her some exercise before the fuel up. Obviously, we ran the main engine. We also ran the wing engine, generator and flushed AC water maker.
Continue readingOn Friday (February 10), Christi had an appointment for another haircut, so we took the 0900 shuttle into town. From the cathedral (where we were dropped off), we walked a few blocks south to a bank to use the ATM.
ATM’s are not nearly as common in Mexico as they are in the US. Most of the towns we’ve visited, including Bahia de Los Angeles, don’t have any. We’ve only found them in the bigger cities that we visited: Santa Rosalia, Loreto and La Paz. We want to take a moment to rant about the bank called BBVA, which charges $9 (US) in ATM fees and gives a terrible exchange rate. Plus your own bank charges fees, too. We’ll only go to BBVA when there is nothing else available, but sadly, today the other bank’s machines were down so we were stuck using BBVA.
From the bank, we walked northeast about 1.5 miles. The farther inland we went, the less gentrified the neighborhood became. Even though we’d driven through this area before, it was interesting to get a closer look on foot.
Continue readingSunrise on Tuesday, February 7
The weather was back to cold and windy again. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we mostly laid low in the marina. Eric finally completed a project that he’d started in San Diego: creating a system to better secure the anchor. Back in San Diego, Eric had bought a piece of 3/4″ starboard and had cut some slots in it to hold the anchor in place so it wouldn’t rattle around when the boat was in motion. He secured the board in place with some dyeema line that has an anti-chaffing sleeve cover over it and a clip. He strapped the line to the cleat on the deck.
I am having a good time at La Paz. We’ve eaten out a lot: breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
Je passe un bon moment à La Paz. Nous mangeons beaucoup dehors : petit déjeuner, brunch, déjeuner et dîner.
We went to an animal sanctuary with some friends. There were lots of cool animals. There were turtles that looked like they had red eyes. There were also tortoises!
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