The marina here continues to have sweet vibe. Sailing, swimming, snorkeling, SUPing and beach walking has all been wonderful abut after 3 weeks living at various anchorage it’s wonderful to enjoy a strong, hot shower and clean laundry. Simple pleasures.
I took a free class in the marina today on using Google Earth to enhance the accuracy of OpenCPN (Open Chart Plotter Navigator) which is is a free software for electronic boating charts. The project was developed by a team of active sailors to use GPS input data to determine a boat's own position and data from an AIS receivers to plot the positions of ships surrounding boats.
There were also two levels of Spanish classes offered today and on other days there are yoga classes and an ongoing seminar about crossing the Pacific. All for the most part given by sailors for sailors.
Before that I spent the day rewiring our running lights which had gone out while Bev did a very thorough, bottom to top, cleaning of the boat.
La Cruz is a diamond in the rough, just the way I like my diamonds. Yesterday evening we strolled around town and I stumbled upon the tree of life, an amazing Huanacaxtle tree in the town's not-so-square square.
Later I came across god’s son. He was selling tacos not too far from the tree. He offered me a taco but I was full and politely declined. He seemed good with that.
Later we strolled along the Malecón and reconnected with far off friends…
Most towns along the Mexican coast seem to have malecóns which are pedestrian walkways or promenades that run along the sea. What a egalitarian and civil idea. Folks love to walk, stroll, bike, run, walk and linger upon them. Dogs seem to love them too. Such a lovely architectural thing…so simple and refined they are. Me thinks we have much to learn from our older and more established neighbors to the south and really no need for a “wall”. One of the most exciting and optimistic times in my life was when the Berlin Wall was brought down, so of corse the idea of building such a wall of our own is distressing…I pray that we do more to join hands with our neighbors and less in the way of building walls.
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