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Bahia de los Angeles Village, BC, Mexico

Today we made the big move all the way to Bahia de los Angeles Village (hereinafter referred to as BLA), a trip of more than 6 miles.  No wind to speak of so we made the trip in a little over an hour using the engine.  These days we do need to use the engine once in a while anyway, just to keep the batteries full - our solar power is just not quite adequate for our needs right now - a bit disappointing!

We were led to believe that there would be phone service here by the village (an thus our investment in our Internet stick would be of some use) but no such luck.  I did manage to find an Internet connection via my big wifi antenna which, while it is not the greatest, is better than no connection at all.  Now that we have the connection we are able to catch up to what is happening in the world.  Apparently as soon as we stopped watching, the entire economy of the USA has gone into the dumpster, dragging the US and Canadian stock markets down with it.  Maybe we were better off not knowing.  I guess we are a little bit poorer now, but being down here in the Sea of Cortez it somehow does not seem all that important.

As soon as we got our anchor down here in BLA, we took the dinghy to shore to grab lunch at Guillermo's restaurant, then headed off to the market to stock up on a few essentials - primarily fruits and veggies.  I made the strategic mistake of deciding we did not need the motor on the dinghy for the short haul to the beach.  What I failed to take into consideration was the effort involved in rowing back to the boat against the prevailing wind and waves - inflatable dinghies are notoriously bad as rowing dinghies.  Somehow we made it back OK - placing Susanne in the bow to block the water from coming into the boat and not letting me get wet was an inspired move.  Of course as soon as we got back the wind died and seas calmed down.

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