ok everyone. we haven’t been working on this boat everyday for the past 2 years for no reason. we are excited to inform everyone that we are departing for mexico in less than 2 weeks! we are aware of hurricane paul heading up the coast. it should clear out of there by mid to end of next week, just before our departure. luckily it’s 2012 and weather data is extremely high tech. and what’s a little hurricane anyways when you grew up on the outer banks of north carolina, the graveyard of the atlantic?? our main goal is to book it south from dana point harbor and get through the panama canal hopefully by early 2013. it’s hard to tell our itinerary because there are so many factors. we will be harbor hopping our way south down the baja peninsula, mainland mex, all of central america, then through the panama canal and north eastward into the caribbean from there. sleeping on anchor most nights. time is money and we want to keep a move on to save our precious $. we hope everyone makes our website their homepage. soon enough we shall have a GPS tracker so that you can know our location on a daily or weekly basis. by now you’re saying “damn these kids are crazy stupid” well… we think you are too, everyone is… just have faith in us and wish us luck. if you would like to be of assistance, we would appreciate it more than anything right now. check out our contributions page at the top. my sister was nice enough to make us an amazon wishlist with items we may need spares of. we leave in less than 2 weeks, so if you’re gunna do it, mail it now! if not, i have a paypal set up for donations of any amount. feel free to buy us a beer in mexico, or a gallon of gas, hell even just throw us a few cents for a stamp on your postcard! adios west coast, it was a grand adventure but a bigger one awaits!
we are not going to be apart of the baja haha. while i was first planning this adventure i thought it’d be a nice thing to join. but now that we’ve got 2 years under our belt. the $400 to enter is better off in our wallets. if all goes as planned, we are hoping to leave a few days before the rally of 140+ boats. if you think about it, that seems like a swarm of locusts, depleting the limited resources and jacking up the prices along the way. we are hoping the timing works out that we meet up in cabo or la paz with the fellow cruisers who are continuing southward. where we can caravan down in a safer setting.
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