Category Setting off

Friday, December 20

Dec 22.2019 / / / Setting off.

Cabo Pulmo. 

A remote, unfinished area—really love it.  The entire community of bungalows and little dive/snorkel shops and little restaurants is owned and operated by members of one extended family.  Everyone is super-friendly, though I certainly wish I had more Spanish; it’d be nice to communicate more colloquially with folks.

The weather is very windy here, with 12’ swells.  No one’s going out except super-expert divers.  And they’re saying there’s no visibility.  Seems it’s been this way most of the week.

The offshore National Parque is said to be extraordinary, which is what brought us this way.  In their desire to keep it somewhat untrampled by tourists, it’s only open about 6 months of the year, then only 3-4 days each week.  No luck for us this trip.

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Thursday, December 19

Dec 22.2019 / / / Setting off.

Cabo San Lucas–>Cabo Pulmo

Time and Tara went on a fishing trip this morning.  Calm waters, no fish.  But they had an enjoyable morning.  Pattie and I relaxed, had breakfast, did laundry—everything pretty ‘aromatic’ following the previous evening’s taco restaurant. 

Set off to Cabo Pulmo in the early afternoon, stopping off at the San Jose Del Cabo Walmart.  We’re told no provisions at all in Cabo Pulmo, so we’ll stock up on some things to keep us in pb&j, water, etc.

The drive was easy, though the last 6 miles were a bit rough.  As advised by the rental car owner, we stopped to deflate tires quite a bit to deal with the rough road.  At several spots, the road was just enormous puddles/small lakes, though we had no problem driving through without incident...

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Wednesday, December 18

Dec 22.2019 / / / Setting off.

Cabo San Lucas

This is a city, for sure.  The drive here yesterday from the airport felt much like driving in the Bronx.  Nothing too hairy, but just lots of people driving offensively.  Had about 45’ from airport to hotel, and it went easily (thanks too google maps!).  Found a little place to grab dinner, which was delicious, then hit the sack.  Pattie and I really beat (4am wakeup in Gvl), Tim/Tara walked the streets a little bit before turning in.

Breakfast at the hotel, then we got to the Manta Dive Shop before 1, checked in, met our dive guide Matthias, and then got settled onto the boat.  Nice setup; 7 divers, 2 guides; Matthias the guide for Pattie, Tim, Tara, and me.  The boat rides were very short, which really left all of our time for diving...

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Setting off (12.17.19)

Dec 17.2019 / / / Setting off.

December 17, 2019, Tuesday

Pattie and I have been planning this adventure for almost a year now. We’ve spent the past few months reorganizing the house so that we can rent it for the coming eight months. We’ve spent the past weeks making the final arrangements, cleaning out my office a bit so that Jose Martinez can come in and wow everyone with the great stuff he’s doing, and his much more aware approach to teaching, especially electronic music.

We’ve had some great events recently–a wonderful surprise 70th birthday party for Martha in NY which brought together lots of family, and Christine/Stephen’s wedding last weekend, which together more family.

And waking today at 3:30am to begin this trip left only one more box to walk up to the attic, then into the car and off to RDU...

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