Mazatlan - Salvation army kids

Febuary 18th 2011

Mazatlan - Salvation army kids. These kids put on shows throughout the year to raise money so that they can eat. Apparently no monies come from the government. Also they do several show throughout the Xmas season also. Lots of fun and entertainment.
This year was the largest fund raiser yet by the cruising community.

Machette Dance

Spring 2010 road trip home

Southern USA on the road home.

2009-2010 sailing season

NOV. 2009 TO MAY 2010


Same old same old, we had planned on doing pretty much what we did last year. Of course plans and actual events are some times very different.


We arrived in San Carlos in mid Nov. We launched our boat an then decided to run over to Guymas, pull our mast and boom, strip all of the gear off of them, strip all of the paint and then had Franscico do a paint job. That took us until the 19th of Dec. We sailed south to Mazatlan and had Xmas with our friends. From there down to Manzanillo for a few months of R&R. Sailed up to Bandaras Bay (Puerto Vallarta) to sail with our good friends Pam and Steve on Full Quiver and did the regatta. 3 days of practice and 3 days of racing pretty much exhausted all of us. Mid march we sailed north to San Blas and then across the Sea of Cortez to go to our nephew's wedding. Below are a few pictures of the wedding and some of the sites that we had on our way north.

Day of sailing with the family

Beautiful bride Cyrstal

finally a day of rest !!!!!

Puerto Esconditio, Whale shark is about 14 feet long swimming off of the bow of our boat.

Punta Chivato on the Baja. Last night before we crossed over to San Carlos

Thailand trip - Chang Mai and Puket

We were in Asia from the 15 of Sept 2010 to Oct 16. To save repeating myself all of Asia was fantastic. We spent 6 days in Hong Kong, then on to Bejing, - floating markets, budda's, then on too Xian with all of the terra cotta warriers, several large buildings keep the weather off of the clay soldiers. Vast areas in Xian need to have more excavating done. Thousands of years of history. From Xian we went to Shanghai, with only 3 days there we would go back again. From there we flew back to Hong Kong and separated from the 21 people in our group and headed off to Thailand.
Bankok was our first stop, looked at lots of Budda's and temples, then flew into Chang Mai, did a tour of the elephants and tigers, orchids out in the country side. From there to Puket and after a month just sat and relaxed.

Buildings in Hong Kong

Hong Kong skyline

living scaffold - bamboo

jet boat to island of Macaw to do a little gambling

imperial palace

fantastic jade carvings

Ready for a little walk on the great wall

Terra Cotta warriers in Xian. Thousands of clay statues.

15 course dumpling meal

Gardens in the middle of the city

unique buildings in Shanghai

Shanghai skyline

snake handlers left me with Fred

water lily

Today we went through 2 villages, both small plots of land,refuges from Burma which is only a few miles away.

This lady is from the village

of the longneck tribe. We toured the village, looked in the huts and bought some crafts from them.

White palace 3 hours north of Chang Mai. This is all done with donations, no government help. Long process to build, they will be many years but very beautiful

Riding the elehants on a safari outside of Chang Mai.

We are about 8 to 10 feet off of the ground. Increadibily intelligent animals.













They wanted 350 boht to take pictures of tigers, so we said okay. We go down by the tiger pens give him our ticket and he opens up the cage and says come on in!!!!

Wow!!

These tigers are almost full grown and are 18 months old

Orchids and butterflys outside of Chang Mai

Biker bar where we eat several times in Puket. This bike was built in Puket for one of the white bikers. Cost 1,000,000.00 boht.