Photos of Camille, Daniel (and family and friends)

Spirit bounds from the water after retrieving a stick. I finally convinced her to retrieve a stick from deep water, this simultaneously solving several problems: how to teach her to swim, how to teach her to retrieve, and how to get her the exercise she desperately needs. I’ll have to reinforce this behavior, but I [...]

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This is what Daniel loves – a cozy warm space, a juice box, some cashews, and a comic book.  This makes sailing lots of fun for him.

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Here are some pictures from our first overnight on the boat.  After a bunch of critical repairs that Keith and I made, we headed out for a shakedown overnight cruise.  Our destination – Blake Island for a stop, then Blakely Harbor on Bainbridge Island for the night.

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We are spending our first weekend away on the boat. We took an upwind sail to Blake Island, then on to Blakely Harbor on Bainbridge Island for the night.

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For the last night we chose to be in San Salvador, the capital. It’s noisy, crowded and polluted. Despite staying at the Hotel Villa Florencia in the supposedly tranquil and safe Zona Rosa neighborhood, we woke to two gunshots; it sounded like a shotgun to me. That was followed by two more. Last night we [...]

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Before we left the country, we spent one night in San Salvador.

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Part of the reason we came to Juayua was to experience the local food festival. It’s a bustling affair.

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Today we had a lay day. Daniel especially needs a chance to lay about and just relax. Camille wanted some girl time and the women had their nails done. Here Camille shows off her nails and a Salvadoran tortilla.  They are quite thick, between 1/4 and 1/2 inch – very different from the thinner Mexican [...]

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Today we had a hasty papusa breakfast and caught the bus to Ahuachupan (“ah-wah-cha-pan”).  At “Biggest Burger” we met Manolo and one of our guides Ismael.   Manolo took us to his home town of Tacuba.  Manolo was so energetic I thought might explode in a twitching fit.  He careened through the streets like a [...]

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