Time to Catch up……

We wanted to have this as a way to stay in touch with friends as we feel a bit anchorless (a word?)lately, but if we make this too informational we realize its a bit boring.

Here is the quick outline so that we can move on to other site specific topics: After completing a near perfect trip to Maine (except for Brant’s broken ankle), we flew to San Jose Del Cabo from Brooklyn (love that city driving), meeting Mark and Al at the airport and picking up our truck out of storage. Very slick operation! They even washed our car.

We returned to our casa, Los Arbolitos, where we spent a week preparing for the arrival of 11 friends. A week later we were back at the airport stuffing 15 friends, luggage and the kindly delivered tote boxes into 3 vehicles.

We had a wonderful week (leaving out those mishaps here and there) that included pizza on Mark and Al’s rooftop deck, a band on our deck, an afternoon at a winery in the mountains and lots of great margaritas.

Sadly their departure was complicated by massive flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines requiring lots of complex scrambling by the group. At the same time, we also learned that a hurricaine might be hitting Los Barriles in a couple days so we moved up our departure date in order to avoid road washouts. We missed the storm by a few hours and our flexible/easy going friends all made it home after a few days. Yup, that’s right a few days!

Hurricaine shutters were quickly put back on and we began our trip up the Baja. We arrived several days later in Shingle Springs where we have been working on the process of what I call “liquidating our lives”. We are almost done and will begin the journey back to the Baja again!