Hola Huatulco!

Karin wrote:

Wow!  What a passage, we left Acapulco as scheduled and arrived in Puerto Escondito after 44 hours of some sailing but more motoring than we would have liked.  The anchorage was full of moorings for pangas and very little room for a 43' sailboat.  We set the anchor and watched as the boat dragged towards the beach. OK lets try this again, and again.  We gave up and decided to slowly make our way to Huatulco. Up went the sails and we happily downwind sailed at a comfortable 4kts an hour.  We arrived at 10 in the morning and decided to treat ourselves to a marina stay since we had not been in one for 5 weeks, and after 64 hours of hand steering we were friggin tired!

The next day we went into town and brought home a super delicious rotisserie chicken.  This is very much a tourist town but as we've seen in most tourist areas the Canadians and Europeans are here in force but the Americans are still too scared to come here.  Very sad that the media has frightened people from coming to such a beautiful friendly country like Mexico. Yes it has it's problems, but if you're not out doing drugs at 3 in the morning, you're fine.  Honestly, we're way more scared in Phoenix where everyone is gunned up. Don't get me wrong, I'm very proud to be an American, being American's is what gave us the opportunity to be doing this. (Thanks Dave!)    

Ok that was my little rant, back to our schedule.  We are waiting for our friend Mark who arrives April 11th and then we are going to cross the Tehuantepec and put the boat in Chiapas for hurricane season. There we can put the windvane on and clean up the boat. We're hoping to find a place to rent and explore more of Mexico by land and take some spanish lessons.                                                                                                                 

Some pics from Acapulco 

Our Great friend Lisa from Molly J