Still in La Paz - Going to San Diego next week

We are still at the dock at Marina de La Paz. Yesterday was Cindy's birthday and the day before was a tremendous Thanksgiving Day. The local cruisers' "Club Cruceros" yacht club, along with Marina Palmira, sponsored a Thanksgiving potluck dinner for about 250 cruisers. It was a great success, witness our bloated tummies that night. The gravy was late but right on time for us in the middle of the line. We made old-fashioned cornbread dressing with lots of sage and onion. Yum!!

Planning the trip to San Diego to pick up boat parts has been a real challenge but we think we have it nailed down now. We plan to rent a car here from Budget rental and drive the 900 miles up in two days and back in two days with four days there. It is slightly cheaper by car than a special rate on airfare, not counting getting a rental car in San Diego to run around in. Ditto for bus, although the bus would have gone straight through and we could sleep and relax more. We will see more in our own car, but will have to play dodge-em with the free range cows along the way. We plan to get a hotel to avoid too much night time driving.

It will be another adventure for sure. The yacht club manager back in PV says he has a buyer for the little car we bought earlier in the year which we could have brought over here at great hassle. We are hoping all goes well with that.

The plan for tonight is for Boys Night Out to shoot pool. John on S/V Nakia is the ring leader for this outing. Hope that goes well too. Otherwise we are just laying back and doing the occasional boat project (at least I am - the princess has been reading, surfing and napping a lot). The weather has been great for that - sunny and warm with cool nights.