We’re in travel mode again folks…which means that life is just a little bit more full and infinitely more complicated! We’re spending as much time at sea as we’re spending on land and when we get to port we don’t have the luxury of knowing much about it and we can’t stick around long enough to settle in to any real routine. There’s a reason people spend years just cruising around Mexico, it’s a really big country with a whole lot to it! Every day brings new places, new people, new discoveries, new challenges.
Being in travel mode also means that you’re going to be reading a lot more passage notes, because preparing for and making passages is the name of the game these days. If we’re not on the water, we’re provisioning, filling up our gas cans, researching our next destination, obsessively checking the weather and fixing anything that breaks.
When we’re on the water it’s surprising how little free time we have. Jeff and I figured out that we only have a couple hours of free time each day when we’re underway (primarily because we’re sleeping [as much as possible], on watch, cooking, eating, making sail changes or doing other little chores).
From Topolobampo, Mexico to Bahia del Sol, El Salvador it’s over 1500 miles, which is a lot of miles when you travel anywhere from 2.5 to 5 miles per hour. So far we’ve traveled about 500 miles and within the next week and a half we’ll be adding another 500. Phew!