Make Me Laugh Again

Up at 7 am, breakfast listen to the net, bible reading and running the water maker to top of the water tank. I checked the oil and discovered a mess, a bottle of oil had leaked and there was a lot of oil on the floor of the engine room. I spent the time while Reneé was walking over to check us out cleaning the mess up. In any case we got out of the marina by about 1130 and motored across to Yelapa. I am really looking forward to new sails in the fall. Edgar was the guy we were supposed to contact to get a mooring ball, but Richard showed up quite a ways out, and said he worked with Edgar and we should just go with him, but we had already attempted to call Edgar. Shortly after this, Edgar got back to us and asked us to tell Richard that we were with Edgar and he came out and got us on a mooring ball. This is a very cute little town!

We put our swim suits on and floated behind the boat for a bit.

Our time for sailing is quickly coming to an end for this season. We are going to pull into Paradise Village on Tuesday, and that will be it. The schedule for us will be all about getting the boat ready to leave for the summer. We will have to clean the boat, get the dehumidifier running to make sure it works, pack for our trip, get rid of the Gasoline for the outboard, flush the outboard with water, pump out the holding tank and fill with water and then pump out again. (Several times) then replace the vent filter on the holding tank. We will have to get rid of the extra food as well.

We had to go back downtown to pick up the stuff we bought the day before at Oscar’s, but we started with walking around and enjoying the sights.  We walked the pier at Playa Los Muertos.  We had lunch at the Blue Shrimp. Then got our Tequila and got an Uber back to Zaragoza (the boat parts store) and bought some zincs and a boat brush. Walked back to the boat, changed and went to the pool and hung out for a couple of hours. Dinner at Victor’s which was about 1/3 of the way to the office. They started dinner off with a shot of Tequila and ended it with after dinner drinks (on the house).

After dinner we watched a Western called Albuquerque from about 1948.

Up and breakfast, the Bible reading and then a trip downtown by bus. We started walking on the island towards the beach and found Oscar’s restaurant and Tequila tasting. We decided to spend an hour or so tasting Tequila. Francisco walked us through the process of making tequila from the agave plant.  He was very generous with the shots and of course we purchased some products.  Good stuff! After that we hiked out to a brewery for lunch, the beer was good and the lunch very good. Then more walking around, and then dinner at an upstairs restaurant. When dinner was over we checked our concert schedule and discovered we needed to be at the show already! So a quick walk over to Act 2 PV and we checked in.

The concert was a tribute to The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, the band was very good and we really enjoyed it. Then an Uber back to the marina, showers and bed.

We slept in until almost 8 am! Then up and around with coffee first. My arm and other pains are almost completely gone. (More evidence suggesting the pinched nerve, when it is unpunched there is no pain).

Gareth Clark is coming by this morning to look at the beer cooler which has stopped working. We have been communicating with Victoria about a pair of folding bikes she and Roger had on this boat until they sold the boat, the bikes are now here in storage and she wants to clean out her storage unit and get rid of things she is not using (like the bikes). We may go take a ride today and see if we want the bikes. We will also take a look at our list and work through it. Then in the afternoon go back to the pool at happy hour.

Well all of the above were the plans, what actually happened was we worked on the boat, we looked at the bikes and have pretty much decided that we will not be getting them. This is a very complicated decision:

Advantages to getting bikes, ease of getting around in SOME places.

Advantages to getting folding bikes:
They take up less room on the boat

Advantages to getting these folding bikes:

They are in excellent shape.

The price would be significantly lower than buying new folding bikes.

These are Montague brand bikes (one of the better folding bikes.

They are very solid and handle pretty well.

Disadvantages of getting bikes:

They take up a lot of room, even the folding ones.

Reneé is really uncomfortable riding in busy streets, or anywhere she does not feel safe.

There are few places we have seen that there is anywhere near safe enough to ride a bike here in Mexico, and we expect it to be worse the further south we go. 

We rode the bikes around the parking lot and there were no moving cars, but it just doesn’t feel right. 

Late in the evening we walked to the store for Ice cream. 

 

Up at 7:30, breakfast, the net and our bible reading. Then checked out of the marina and a stop for fuel and across to Puerto Vallarta. (About 10 miles). We motored, and came into the marina. Good news there will be no swell here, bad news the access is VERY narrow. We got the boat backed in and tied up, then had lunch, after which, I did dishes and Reneé got us checked into the marina. It is a long walk to the office. She checked on getting laundry done here, the lady at the laundry who said if we dropped it off today, it might be ready on Friday. She checked the bathrooms (about a mile away, and not spectacular), so showers will happen on the boat. But she did get a pool pass for one of the hotels near us.

When she got back we washed the boat, and polished the stainless steel, then rested for a bit followed by a pool trip. Complete with 120 pesos for a bucket of 5 beers (about $6 US) on ice). Tonight is movie night!

Well, it got too late to watch a movie, so that will be some other time.