If you found this blog via a link from a cruising site ~ we did cruise Mexico on our Ocean 49 cat for a season. See the first text box on the right for links to our preparations, trip down Baja, life in Mexico, cruising and trip back up to SoCal. Unfortunately we are back to the grind in the USA...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Exploring the Grand Bay! (Amazingly enough it is still Sunday!)
The many times we had been in Barra de Navidad on "Thistle" we had never explored the Grand Bay Hotel. So when the guys were taking their "geezer naps", me not being a geezer, went for a walk around the hotel grounds. All the streets are "paved" with interlocking bricks (we guessed at 10 million bricks or some ridiculous number), the pool is incredible with a tunnel slide that the kids all love, the beaches are clean with aligned lounges and cabanas, swimming areas are roped off, the landscaping is exquisite, hammocks hang from the palms and the view of the entrance, lagoon and town is incredible!
We cruised Mexico's West Coast for 3 years on our prior boat, "Thistle" a Columbia 50. Went back to California in 2000 and bought the "new boat" in 2004. We then spent a year and a half cruising in Mexico. We just did the "Baja Bash" ~ sailed up the outside of Baja and returned to SoCal! We are We are now back to work for awhile...
A thought we say to ourselves everyday:
"You'll only regret the things you didn't do".
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
"Life is either a daring adventure or Nothing." ~ Helen Keller
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." ~ John A. Shedd
"Make it happen." ~ Alan Burg of the sailing vessel Toshal
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the places and moments that take our breath away." ~ Anonymous
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” ~ Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
"Make 'someday' today." ~ From inside a Dove candy wrapper
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