Where we're headed?

The short answer is Mexico and beyond but that’s only a place, the true answer is a bit more involved and wise folks know that true places are never found on a map .  For the past year we’ve been working real hard preparing Malo and our lives to go Cruising.  Our plan, time & tides willing, is to head out of our home port of Newport Oregon on or about September 1st 2017 heading south.  We’re going to take a leisurely trip down the coast, poking into interesting harbors along the way, exploring the Channel Islands, arriving in the San Diego area end of October.  We’re plan on checking into Mexico around November 1st and then take big hops down the West coast of Mexico to Zihuatanejo in search of warm water weather.  From there we’ll turn around and head north eventually reaching the Baja and the Sea of Cortez. 

So those are the places but our real destination is warm water, fun and adventure.  While those places are not on any maps we’re hoping that we’ll be headed someplace we’ll be able to find what we truly seek.  

Prepping for new windows. 

After all the hard work that we’ve been putting in on Malo we got a precious glimpse of our true destination when we took my new paddle board, Bev’s board and our new dinghy out on Dexter Lake for sea trials.  We had gotten the dinghy, an Achilles LSI-310 plus a Tohatsu 9.8hp, 4 stroke motor to push it at Northwest Inflatable Boats on Hayden Island in Portland OR last winter.  They gave us the discount that they were going to offer at the upcoming boat show plus a whole lot if information about setting it all up.  Good guys.  

We picked a set of transom wheels from Amazon.  They well help us in those long beaches down in Mexico.  In the mean time they worked great on our local boat ramp.

                                        

It was wonderful to get out where we belong, on the water and play.  

The new board seemed to do well.  I'm looking forward to getting more into this sport.  I'm especially looking forward to trying it some easy surf without too many witnesses.  

                                     

It was so wonderful to be doing something other that just work and truly wonderful to see a big smile on Bev’s face.  Afterwards we both felt rejuvenated and closer to our destination. 

It’s hard keeping up our energy and enthusiasm when faced with over a year of seemingly endless labor but the end is in sight, just 6 months from now, fortune willing, we'll be off to Mexico.