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Change of Plans


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 road trip before we start heading back north into the Sea.
We will be leaving Loomba-Loomba in the water in Mazatlan this year - flying home the end of June.

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