a cool map and a mystery

Wellness Week is about to come to an end. We've been doing laps in the pool everyday, and the watermaker and the SSB works, so we're ready to leave for MEXICO!! Today, we're scrambling about doing laundry, taking care of taxes, grocery shopping and sending the nice frying pan that I accidentally brought along back to my Mom.

Yesterday we also set up a new little mom-gizmo that will allow us to send an email to our families, letting them know that we are okay. It also locates us on a map, which is available for anyone to see. Every time we hit a little button, a new waypoint will be recorded along our route.

We'll leave tomorrow morning-ish, after one last swim, and possibly stop in Ensenada, which is about 65 miles from here. Most likely, we'll not stop and push on to Turtle Bay which is almost 300 miles away. This will be the longest non-stop passage I've made yet, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit to being a bit nervous. But, I'm more happy-excited than nervous. Up until now, it's been short hops from comfortable harbor to harbor. For the next 3-4 weeks we'll make longer passages and the few stops before reaching Cabo have very limited resources. But, we're expecting it to be beautiful and maybe even warmer. Our itinerary remains loose and we're shopping for a month, so that if we find an anchorage we like, we can stay and explore for a few days.

Finally, the mystery. We went to look at kayaks a few days ago and while poking around in one of the hatches, we found chocolate! They were yummy Lindt truffles. We decided it was a good omen and ended up buying the boat, but how the chocolate got there is still a mystery. Alex swears he didn't place them there, and since we ate the chocolate I didn't want to ask any of the sales people in case they were theirs.