Out of La Paz - Finally

We finally got out of La Paz today. We are currently anchored in Balandra Cove, just outside of La Paz. We got all our exhaust hose repairs done the other day and set out yesterday for Los Muertos. Just about 5 minutes out, Rich checked on all the repairs and told me to turn around. Apparently the muffler thingy also needed to be fixed. We contacted the mechanic on the way back in and also got a hold of Marina Costa Baja. The marina set us up in a slip that we could have had for over a week
and the mechanic (Dan) went and got some epoxy to fix the crack in the muffler attach point. After setting for the night, Rich re-installed it today and all was good so we got the heck out of La Paz. We will got to Los Muertos tomorrow (in time for dinner at the Giggling Marlin), to Frailes on Tuesday and into San Jose del Cabo on Wednesday. We're actually getting anxious for the "bash" north. We've been meeting a bunch of boats that are doing the bash at the same time, so it will be interesting
to see how the weather all plays out for all of us. We are also lamenting the fact that we are heading north. We all agree that we will definitely do this again sometime later. It just really seems that you need to have resources available to do 1,3 or more years of cruising - 2 years doesn't get you much further than we've already been. We can't say enough about the folks that run Marina Costa Baja. Both times we've been there, they have been more than accommodating with getting us hooked up
with anything we've needed. We will surely re-visit them in the future! We're guessing we should be back in SD around the middle of July. Any of you on your boats, we'll be checking in on the local nets as we head up the coast. Our anticipated date of departure from Cabo is around 6/25. We'll send more messages out once we have a good internet connection in Cabo.

Our Current Position Is: 24 degrees 19.28'N; 110 degrees 19.84'W.

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

PS - Carolyn - the boys are having an alien making day today!!!