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First Stop: Tequila

 
Our ride: 

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Chrysler 300M Special

Looking for Cantarito (Tequila speciaL drink)

But we found a church Tequila, Mexico

Guanajuato:

  This city was founded in 1548

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Driving into Guanajuato

Narrow, slow, one way streets

Wow! What a cool hotel

The Hotel, Posada Santa Fe was built in 1862. Its owners made it into an art nuseum as well as a gracious hotel

We Made it!

Teatro Juarez

Art

A folk hero, Pipila

Pipila, Attacked the Spanish in Guanajuato with a firebriand during the war of independence Pipila

Guanajuato's streets, dating from tht late 1700's, are narrow. An underground highway system was built. Entrance to the underground highway system

These are the roads underground

Orange Church

Inside Church

The Basilica Colegiata de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato Cathedral in Guanajuato Mexico was built in 1671. Inside there is a pipe organ. That pipe organ has 1098 pipes and itself was made in the late 1600's and is rarely played for the public. However we stumbled across an announcement for this special appearance and were able to enjoy this amazing playing and sound.The two organists playing in the organ loft were Guerreo Jaime and Perez Enriquez. We watched them on a projection screen.

 

Sandy

Church Facade

Orange

Aquacalientes-And a real car problem

 
On an overpass on Aguacalientes the front end of the chrysler broke and I lost steering. Somehow I was able to slow the car without hitting the railing or any other cars and got down onto the surface street. I pulled over. The left front wheel was cocked at a crazy angle.

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Wheel is cockeyed

I got a tow truck and we towed the car to a nearby suspension shop. A quick inspection revealed a broken strut mount and a completely loose strut. Oh Oh!

The shock (strut) shouldn't look lke this

Surprisingly a few hours later the car was fixed and we were on our way to Zacatecas. Yay!

Zacatecas-High Altitude

 

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Fred and Sandy

Sandy in the room

Courtyard out the window

Going up to the cable car station

Black Hat on the bar

Looking down the lighted alley

View from the Teleferico

Tree in the courtyard

Blue Chair

Sandy in the Museum

Art

Museum Stairway

Durango

 

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Durangop Church

San Blas

 

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Hotel Haciento Flamingos

Pili Room

Wardrobe

December Round-up

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Bad Bad Birds

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Birds on the Mast

These are bad, bad birds. They like to land on our mast.

Bird Poo
This is what they leave on our water-caching awning. It is not what you want in your water tank.

Birds on a wire

Before they came to the marina, they come to the wires over the parking lot. Then they fly out to our boat.



We know how to get rid of them. Watch this. (OK, The video is not easy to see, but to get rid of the birds you smack the rig and they fly away.)

THERE!

They fly away. Do that about three times a day and in a few days they learn not to land on our boat.

Fiji Water

But anyhow, maybe we'll get our water from a bottle.

San Blas Haul-out

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Jimmy and Robin join us on the beach

Jimmy and Robin, from Orcas Island, came to visit and help with the haulout. First we sailed to San Blas but we forgot to take any photos of the great sailing.

Weds Morning, the boat comes out

Boat work

San Blas

House in centro, San Blas

Billy Bob's San Blas Honkeytonk

We head off to explore the fort

Pretty old

Jimmy studies the golden head

Who was this guy?

wingssail image-james roserFred shoots the canon-frolicking girls

They take aim

The old church, from 1773

Old Church

Interesting

Look at this masonry

Back at the boat, nice paint

Is this keel out of alignment?

Job Done

Monster Spars

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We built these two spar buoys

These buoys are meant to be race marks, they will be anchored out in the bay.



They don't look like much here but in reality they are quite big. 12.5 feet from top to bottom (not including the flag pole, which is three more feet), they have 61 kilos of concrete in the bottom, and the top is filled with foam.



We call them, "Monster Spars".