S/V Loomba-Loomba

San Carlos Sunset We had a fairly quick and very fun trip back to Mexico. First stop was Ashland for the night and then San Francisco for a night with Jim's brother, Dave. We then met Beth and John (Chrissy's middle/high school friend) for breakfast in Half Moon Bay on our way to Santa Cruz for a night with Joel and Judy (Jim's college roommate). Jim and Joel at West Cliff in Santa Cruz The next stop was Jake and Susy's (Chrissy's college buddy) who are camp hosting at Carpentiria State Beach. Susy and Jake's winter home in Carpentiria A ride out to Rincon Beach along the RR tracks From there we headed to Palm Springs where we had a condo for a couple of days while we regrouped and did our boat provisioning. Morning view from the Palm Springs condo Next stop was Apache Junction to visit Drew and pick up some things we left there on our way home from Mexico last Spring. Drew excels in Christmas lighting! We stopped at the...

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 ...