Living the dream of cruising the world on our 45' sailboat, the Liahona. We are limited budget cruisers just trying to enjoy every moment of this amazing life and sharing our experiences along the way.
Having family and friends come aboard to share is what it is all about. For them to see what we see, do what we do and live what we live, even if for just a few days or so, is always awesome. My oldest son Tanner has never been to the boat so when he finally made it down it was destined to be great. Without going into a long dialog, here's the video that shows the highlights. Enjoy.
Each season on the boat we like to take
a trip or two inland to put our feet on solid ground and enjoy the
beauties that we normally don't get to see. One of our trips this
year was to beautiful Guadalajara where Bret was able to reunite with
his Mexican “family” that he hasn't seen in 35 years. So we
rented a car in Barra de Navidad and headed east. The overland trip
was beautiful and we again were amazed at how many miles we could
cover in just a few short hours. The miles pass by much quicker at
60 mph instead of 7!
Guadalajara is a beautifully historic
city and Marne was anxious to see the “old town”. We were able
to stay with the Padilla family who have been friends of the
Mitchell's since the 1950s. After the big city we wandered back west
to the town of Comala which sits at the foothills of the Colima
volcano. We were hoping to get closer to the active volcano but that
just wasn't possible so we had to enjoy from a distance. We left
Comala the next day and headed to the El Salto waterfalls and then on
back to Barra where we found the Liahona just where we left her, safe
and sound in the Barra lagoon.
