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We keep promising to post pictures and I guess that time has come.  We spent a day in mall cop comCabo on Thursday and were just enjoying some of the sights when we finally found a company that wanted to help out the folks at Segway.   There wasn’t a bandito in sight so I guess this type of transport and enforcement must work.

Later in the day we went after some of the best burgers in town at a place called either Burgasism or  Burgorismo which is perhaps 5 blocks into town off the main drag and on the street adjacent to Puerto Parisio.  We failed to take pictures of the 1/2 lbs. burger that Bill had but we think this picture does a bit of justice to how good they were.  viagra com

When we finished the burgers then we headed home for five solid hours of sleep before our departure up the coast.

Our morning was a bit harried though we don’t really know why.   We checked all the local and internet broadcast for weather and all of them said that Friday the 13 was a good day to go but that Monday morning might actually be better.  We decided to take the chance and peeked our head out of the bay to see what things looked like.   We hadn’t even bothered to make coffee so that might have been mistake number one.

Cabo Falso is known for turning people back due to rough and heavy weather even when the rest of the coast is peaceful, so we decided to bash into the 20 plus knots of wind and hope that some 20 miles later it would abate as Predictwind,Sailflow and Passage weather said.   As the day wound into about 10 AM the winds did relax to about 15 knots but the waves were still not the predicted 6′ at 11 seconds. We have been sailing for a while now and any time the wave height is less than half the period (11 seconds) you can consider the seas flat and friendly for our boat so we figured we would solder on as even
Gary the local weatherman said the winds would start to lay down.

About noon we were seeing 20 knots constant again, then by 3 PM we had 26 knots with gusts higher.  The waves were 6′ every eleven seconds but nobody told us about the 10
footers that were spaced between those 11 seconds.

50 miles into the trip we checked all the wind services (we have pretty consistent cell service along this coast and surprisingly they all changed their forcast…imagine 8′ at 9
seconds..hmm, must be the wind waves on top of those that they missed.  Just so you are not confused, 8′ at 9 seconds mean our 40,000 lbs bundle of joy is virtually leaping off the waves do to how steep they are, crashing to the bottom of the trough and coming to a complete stop before the wave just behind that one comes crashing on top of the boat, lot’s of fun, but then this did start as an adventure right.

After a bit of a conversation we finally decided that the weather was not going to improve, well it wasn’t going to get worse either, but we were headed into darkness and Bill being afraid of the dark wanted to go home so we turned the barge around and headed 9 hours back to where we started.

This morning we are listening to jet ski’s, powerboats, fishing pangas and parachute pulling jet boats.  The waves they create and the cacophony of sound generated is very close to yesterday so at least we won’t lose our sea legs by Monday when we give it another try.

Our friend Diane mentioned that we were to enjoy our commute yesterday.   We can say it was better than sitting in stop and go, so all in all we have to say the day trip from here to there and back was enjoyable.   Thanks for the well wishes.  We did want to leave you

with a bit of something before leaving the land of internet.   Check out the Silver Surfer, this is how Bill wants to commute to work, just need a Jet Ski and somebody to tag along beside him as he surfs to work.