The Police Dock, where we stayed, while we prepared for our trip
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Getting ready to leave for the Baja HaHa
San Diego, CA |
San Diego, CA
Dear Family and Friends, The work on a boat never ends! Dennis says the definition of the term CRUISING means “working on your boat in exotic places”! If that is true, then we are truly cruising! The boys, (Kevin and Dennis) started working the day after we got into San Diego, and Dennis and Mike are still working. We leave for Baja day after tomorrow, so there’s not a lot of time left! We have gotten to enjoy San Diego a bit, shorts weather and some umbrella drinks. Interspersed with lots of trips to our favorite West Marine and hardware stores. We visited a couple of our favorite eating establishments that we discovered while here last summer. So now I am waiting for Dennis to get back from another trip to the hardware store so I can go to Costco, Trader Joe’s and Safeway, to stock up on necessities for the trip. It’s hard to decide what food to buy when sailing for 72 hours without stopping and preparing food with the boat moving! Maybe lots of sandwiches made in advance like we did before! Tomorrow is “Baja Party Day”. We have paperwork to turn in at West Marine (where else?) in the morning. Then Dennis has a Captains meeting. In the afternoon there is a costume party and BBQ. Dennis will be wearing a Jamaican hat complete with dreds with an anonymous mask, and I will be getting my brows on while dressing as Frieda Kahlo! Zelda will be donning her Boston Terrier costume again, and I don’t know what kind of costume Mike will wear. The Baja rally officially starts Monday morning at 11am, with a parade of boats. They want us to wear our costumes while our boats are leaving San Diego Bay. I don’t know if taking off a costume and changing into regular “sailing clothes” will be an easy feat with the boat moving though, so I might skip that one! We’ll try to get some pictures of all these activities, especially of the parade of boats when leaving. We probably won’t be able to post our blog until we get to an area with cell phone reception and/or wifi, so it could be awhile. Maybe not until we get to Cabo. We’re sending our love and hoping you all have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!