Since our last post, we have continued our trek northward. From Isla Carmen, we stopped off briefly outside of Loreto for a provisioning run, then headed up to Isla Coronados. The anchorage is huge, aqua blue with several white sand beaches. It is the picture of paradise. When we pulled in there, we knew we …
Oh, the Sea of Cortez! We haven’t spent tons of time in the Sea of Cortez. In 2015 we only made it up to San Evaristo, a small bay about 1/4 of the way up the sea on the Baja peninsula. It was just after Thanksgiving, it was BLOWING a “screaming blue norther” and really …
Well, as we expected, things did not go as expected. We were supposed to have been put in the water on April 1st, but as we ran around the decks, preparing the boat, we listened with falling hearts to the engine of the travel lift not turning over… It turns out, the starter motor died …
The Vawters are heading back to the water at long last. I know some of you thought (and maybe some even prayed) that we were going to become land lubbers again, but it’s back to the boat life for us! I dropped off writing posts near the end of June last year. We weren’t adventuring …
Okay, so I am not alone in feeling that homeschooling, was by far and away the hardest and possibly the worst part of cruising. Recently, at a meet-up over July 4th on Bainbridge Island I did a little informal survey. We got together with SV Agamere at their home. SV Wild Rumpus was there in …
It has been almost three months since we have been in Canada. After living here on hard ground we ask ourselves… how is it going? It has been quite the transition. And most transitions are not without adversity. The most challenging thing, apart from outfitting a completely empty house, starting completely new jobs, girls starting mid-school …
“Mommy, I want some headbands” – Isa. I replied with love “Yea? Why?” “Because the bathroom is so empty and it makes me not feel at home, there’s no stuff in it” – Isa. It’s so true. We have this overwhelming urge to fill our space don’t we? Not only our space, but other peoples …
A friend of mine who is happily working on her own families cruising future asked about connectivity in Mexico. This was a huge question for me before we left so I thought I’d share our experiences. Mobile Phone Now, this might sound like an infomercial for T-Mobile. They have a great plan that provides us …
Summers in Mexico on a boat are typically hot and windless unless you get visited by a hurricane or the evening corumel winds that howell across the baja into the sea at night. For this reason, cruisers either go way up north up into the Sea of Cortez to haul out, South toward Panama or …
Boat Life = Pause Wine Life = Play Wait what? So there are lots of questions but the main idea is: Cameron and I have put Banyan up on the hard in Mexico and have made our way up to the norther extremities of the Sonoran Desert, the hottest place in…yup, you guessed it, Canada. …