S/V Loomba-Loomba

We rented a car for a week and headed up into the mountains. Our first stop was the old mining town of San Sebastian – first populated by the Aztecs and then in the 1600’s to the 1930’s by miners. Now the people cultivate corn, cattle, and coffee. Driving into San Sebastian San Sebastian central plaza On to Mascota for lunch and a visit to their wonderful cultural center and archeology museum. We planned to spend the night in Talpa de Allende, but as we got closer we saw more and more people headed in the same direction. They were on foot, horseback, motorcycles, bicycles, cars and buses.   It dawned on us that this must be the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Talpa Basilica which, according to our Moon handbook, occurs on March 19 and attracts about one million people! Apparently people start their pilgrimage a week or so before the 19 th . There were thousands of people, hundreds of horses, buses, cars, motorcycles and bicycles. It was f

After much agonizing and discussing we have decided to stay in Mexico and not do the Pacific Puddle Jump. The main reasons are: 1. We really don't want to miss Simon's whole first year of life. 2. We love Mexico and love our lifestyle here and it would be very difficult to get back here by boat from the South Pacific. The Land and Climate: and The People: 3. We like being home in the summer rather than the winter. We will regret not going, but we would also regret not staying so we weighed all the pros and cons and our decision is to stay. We'll just save our miles and fly to the SP sometime. Right now we are still in the La Cruz marina. We found a good alternator guy in PV and he finally diagnosed and fixed our charging problem. Yay! As always, we've spent a lot of time doing boat projects and re-connecting with cruising friends. We're planning on doing a short