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...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Not Good...
Not good for the 78 people who did not make it through Gustav. Not good for Cuba. Not good for Louisiana. Just not good.
Yeah, I agree... you see that yellow dot on the map? That's my Aunt and Uncle's house! Rita put two huge pine trees right down the middle of their house a few years ago. Cut their house right in half and crushed both bathrooms. They (both in late 70's) stayed in the house while renovating, peed in a bucket for months, never left, never took a penny of aide. Uncle said he'd lived there (in La.) his entire life, and was prepared (financially) to rebuild... that's just what you do when you live in a hurricane zone. Be prepared.
I'm just glad they are not busing evacuees to Texas this time.... long story, DON'T get me started.
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
2 comments:
Not good at all.
Yeah, I agree... you see that yellow dot on the map? That's my Aunt and Uncle's house! Rita put two huge pine trees right down the middle of their house a few years ago. Cut their house right in half and crushed both bathrooms. They (both in late 70's) stayed in the house while renovating, peed in a bucket for months, never left, never took a penny of aide. Uncle said he'd lived there (in La.) his entire life, and was prepared (financially) to rebuild... that's just what you do when you live in a hurricane zone. Be prepared.
I'm just glad they are not busing evacuees to Texas this time.... long story, DON'T get me started.
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