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Ready to Splash..................

Well, we are splashing tomorrow! After a quick trip down to Mexico with a packed car and a dinghy on the roof we checked into the condo that we rented in San Carlos last year only to find that they had no wifi anymore and the price had almost doubled. After three days of being told that the tech guy would come at 4:30 we packed up at 5:00 on day three and found a new place: Los Jitos Hotel.   I don’t know how many rooms there are, but it is BIG. Our room has a kitchen, AC, hot water, wifi and room cleaning with fresh linens every day. It’s also only five minutes from the boat yard where we go every day from 8 to 5 to work on Loomba-Loomba. All for $175/week US$! We haven’t tried to find out its history yet, but it appears that it must have been pretty fancy in its day and is now suffering from deferred maintenance.   There is now a Best Western and a big, fancy hotel down by Marina San Carlos – both newer than Los Jitos.   The first couple of nights we were the only g