S/V Loomba-Loomba

To all of our cruising friends – we are still in the Pacific Northwest. We’ve been enjoying the kids, grandkids and the beautiful fall colors that we’ve missed for the past seven years and we are looking forward to our family Christmas.  We’ll be arriving in San Carlos around January 6 th .   Once we splash and get Loomba-Loomba put back together we will head across to Baja for a bit before crossing back to Mazatlan and then south from there. Hopefully our paths will cross somewhere during this cruising season. To all of our PNW friends.   It is always great to re-connect with you. We wish we had more time to re-connect with all of you every summer, but the summers just whiz by – especially now that we have two grandchildren.   We do think of all of you often.

It is now November 12, 2017 and a lot has happened since our last blog  post on June 9.  The major event was the birth of our granddaughter,  Lily, on July 29th. After Lily was born we decided to stay home until after Christmas so we would have a bit more bonding time  with both Lily and Simon. We also sold our last rental house in Wenatchee and bought a used Sprinter camper van. It's been great fun. We've done several trips in it and we are loving it! First outing: Yelvick's on Hood Canal with Tom and Claudette. Then camping with the kids at Cottonwood Campground  on the Entiat River in Eastern Washington. They rented the Forest Service Cabin and we had the Sprinter: The next camping adventure was to the Oregon Coast and the Cruiser's Campout near Florence. We spent two nights at the Cape Lookout Campground on the way to Florence: Our campsite at Cape Lookout CG Nice hike out to the end of Cape Loo

We arrived at Drew's house on June 8th - after one of the  quickest (10 hours) trips from San Carlos that we've had.  There wasn't quite as much road construction on the  Mexican side and the border crossing was a breeze. Besides going out to meals  (there's always a new restaurant or two to try)  we didn't do much in San Carlos except work to get  Loomba-Loomba ready to haul out and store for  hurricane season. Taking down the running backs, etc. Looking south from the top of the mast-the Marina office is to the left. Marinaterra hotel is in the distance. Looking north into Bahia San Carlos from the top of the mast L-L getting hauled out on the hydraulic trailer On her way to the work yard A well deserved Indio in a frosted mug after the last day in the boat yard getting L-L buttoned up for the summer.  It was HOT in the cement work yard! We stayed here for the last two nights L-L was in the marina because