We are home. When last seen the boat was floating peacefully on a mooring in a river in El Salvador. Hopefully it will be in the same place, safe and sound, when we go back next Spring to continue our southbound trip.
We got a great flight back from El Salvador on TACA airlines. TACA still serves free cocktails and dinner to all of its passengers, has good size seats in the economy section, and they apparently give extra points for being good looking when they hire the stewards and stewardesses. Just the way it used to be.
For now it is cold weather (actually it is 75 degrees and sunny here so not too cold), taxes, golf, and old friends for the winter months. Sounds good to us.
We had a specatacular time over the past three months sailing from Puerto Vallarta, along the southern coast of Mexico, through Guatemala and into El Salvador. We got to anchor, swim and snorkel on exotic beaches and in remote anchorages, we played with dolphins, we caught fresh tuna, we made quantities of boat drinks, we sampled at least 20 different brands of Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran beers, we spent dollars, pesos, quetzales, and lempiras on our trip, we hung out with sailors from all over the world (though mostly Canadians and Americans), we read a LOT of books, we got tan (and a little thinner, I think), we took wild bus rides, we shopped strange marketplaces, we ate pupusas and tacos and fajitas and ceviche, and we generally "cruised". The current definition of "cruising" is "making boat repairs in exotic locations". Yep, done that. Done a lot of that. But very best of all.... we think that the best sailing and the best beaches and the best adventures are still ahead of us, and we will be back on the boat in May to find out.
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