June 6th 2010
Jim got home again about May 16th. He had been in Mexico for a month. While he was there he attended the wedding of Ron and Susanna on Golden Eagle. He also had a chance to see and spend some time with Isabel and Russ from Turtle Bay. He replaced the head on the engine but doesn’t know if that will fix the problem. He got the information he needed to send for parts for the wenches. He also cleaned the thing that pulls the anchor up. It is called a windless. He renewed his visa and re licensed the van. He also had the van worked on so that it would be safe to come home again.
That is about all he accomplished. Well, I think that is quite a bit. Especially if you know that the temperature down there ranged between 96 and 107 degrees each day he was there, and he has no air conditioning. I don’t know how he did anything at all.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jim's Time as a Bachelor on the Boat
May 12th, 2010
Jim has been down there in La Paz now for almost a month! He has been working on the engine. He has also rebuilt the windless and now he has a wench torn apart. He can’t really fix it because he needs parts. He will have to take the windless apart again when he gets the parts for that and he can’t fix the engine yet either. It is really hard to get parts for things down there. He calls home every day and tells me what is going on. The food that was left on the boat had to be thrown out, except for the canned stuff. There was a little flour there in a canister on the cabinet. It was full of weevils and I told him to just throw away anything else there that could get infested. I don’t want to come back to a boat full of bugs of any kind!!
He has had a chance to see some of our old friends. I wish I could have been with him, but it isn’t possible right now.
I am still in SLC working a few days a week and spending time with my family. I hope we will both be able to go back down there one of these days. It would be nice if we could get the engine and the wenches fixed so that we could bring the boat back up here to the USA. Then we could travel back and forth once in a while. La Paz is a very long ways from home.
Jim is ready to come home. It is 103 degrees down there most days. And it is still spring weather up here. While he is down there sweltering in the heat and trying to get the problems fixed, I am up here trying to get the yard straightened out and expecting to watch the grand kids this summer. What a contrast!!!
He has also got his "people" working on getting his visa renewed and he has the insurance on the van renewed. He still needs to get the license plates on the van renewed, if they have to be renewed each year. We have not been able to learn if that is needed or not. Maybe I need to write to Isabel and ask her. Guess that is what I will do!
Jim has been down there in La Paz now for almost a month! He has been working on the engine. He has also rebuilt the windless and now he has a wench torn apart. He can’t really fix it because he needs parts. He will have to take the windless apart again when he gets the parts for that and he can’t fix the engine yet either. It is really hard to get parts for things down there. He calls home every day and tells me what is going on. The food that was left on the boat had to be thrown out, except for the canned stuff. There was a little flour there in a canister on the cabinet. It was full of weevils and I told him to just throw away anything else there that could get infested. I don’t want to come back to a boat full of bugs of any kind!!
He has had a chance to see some of our old friends. I wish I could have been with him, but it isn’t possible right now.
I am still in SLC working a few days a week and spending time with my family. I hope we will both be able to go back down there one of these days. It would be nice if we could get the engine and the wenches fixed so that we could bring the boat back up here to the USA. Then we could travel back and forth once in a while. La Paz is a very long ways from home.
Jim is ready to come home. It is 103 degrees down there most days. And it is still spring weather up here. While he is down there sweltering in the heat and trying to get the problems fixed, I am up here trying to get the yard straightened out and expecting to watch the grand kids this summer. What a contrast!!!
He has also got his "people" working on getting his visa renewed and he has the insurance on the van renewed. He still needs to get the license plates on the van renewed, if they have to be renewed each year. We have not been able to learn if that is needed or not. Maybe I need to write to Isabel and ask her. Guess that is what I will do!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Journal May 6, 2010
Well, Jim went back down to Mexico . . . and the boat. He left here on April the 16th and he is still gone. On the way back he stopped to say, “hello” to Russ and Isabel and their new baby, Mary Faith. Then he stopped again to say, “hello” to Ron and Susanna, who have decided to tie the knot. When he got down to La Paz he met a couple who were on the way back up to Santa Rosalia for the wedding, so he decided to go to the wedding to. He turned around and went back up to Santa Rosalia and attended the wedding. That must have been a lot of fun.
I hear from him almost every day, but that isn’t as good as being there. While we have had rain, rain, and more rain here, he has been down in La Paz basking in the sun. Well, that is only true if you can bask in temperatures of 100+. He took the head off the motor and had the guys in the shop fix up the new (used) head so it matched the old one. Then he put the new head on the engine. But there was a problem because they didn’t make the new head match exactly. They left a plug in the head that is not compatible with the water tank he needs to connect. Now he is fighting to get the wrong plug (with pipe attached) out so that he can replace it with the original. He is also trying to get his visa renewed and he needs to get the car relicensed for another year, if that is needed in Mexico. He hasn’t found anyone who could tell him what is required for the car.
I stayed here because I need to keep the job I have. I also have grandkids that need my attention right now. We all know that family comes first and playing comes after the work is done so here I sit and there he goes, off to play.
He doesn’t feel like he is playing. He is quite discouraged and ready to come home. But he hasn’t finished what he went for, so he has to stay till he is done. It is nice that he can call me and talk to me every day. At least I know what is going on and I know that he is safe and probably having fun, even if he is discouraged from time to time.
Well, Jim went back down to Mexico . . . and the boat. He left here on April the 16th and he is still gone. On the way back he stopped to say, “hello” to Russ and Isabel and their new baby, Mary Faith. Then he stopped again to say, “hello” to Ron and Susanna, who have decided to tie the knot. When he got down to La Paz he met a couple who were on the way back up to Santa Rosalia for the wedding, so he decided to go to the wedding to. He turned around and went back up to Santa Rosalia and attended the wedding. That must have been a lot of fun.
I hear from him almost every day, but that isn’t as good as being there. While we have had rain, rain, and more rain here, he has been down in La Paz basking in the sun. Well, that is only true if you can bask in temperatures of 100+. He took the head off the motor and had the guys in the shop fix up the new (used) head so it matched the old one. Then he put the new head on the engine. But there was a problem because they didn’t make the new head match exactly. They left a plug in the head that is not compatible with the water tank he needs to connect. Now he is fighting to get the wrong plug (with pipe attached) out so that he can replace it with the original. He is also trying to get his visa renewed and he needs to get the car relicensed for another year, if that is needed in Mexico. He hasn’t found anyone who could tell him what is required for the car.
I stayed here because I need to keep the job I have. I also have grandkids that need my attention right now. We all know that family comes first and playing comes after the work is done so here I sit and there he goes, off to play.
He doesn’t feel like he is playing. He is quite discouraged and ready to come home. But he hasn’t finished what he went for, so he has to stay till he is done. It is nice that he can call me and talk to me every day. At least I know what is going on and I know that he is safe and probably having fun, even if he is discouraged from time to time.
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About Me
- Donna M. Colbert
- A few years ago, my husband and I bought a boat in Ensenada Mexico. We have traveled back and forth from time to time since then. We sailed down the coast of Baja Calif and into the Sea of Cortez. The boat is currantly in La Paz Mexico. A few months ago we returned to our home in Salt Lake City for a time. We intend to spend some of our time sailing and some of our time in Salt Lake with our family and friends. We have the best of both worlds now.