For the loyal readers of my rants and Jennie's wonderful photos, I'm sure you are wondering what is going to happen. In the near future when we get settled in Victoria, Jennie will bust out the photos and add more from the trip. We are going to be steadily working on small projects such as; engine rebuild, fuel polishing system, and other things we think up along the way. I think we will try to do some sailing in Victoria, maybe try our hand at some racing, so if you are looking for crew in Victoria let us know.
Cypraea needs a rest, and so do we. Things kind of started breaking, and now we are putting them back together. Hopefully once we find jobs we can start building up our kitty so we can cruise again soon, oh and replace and refine a few things on Cypraea. Luckily for us we are in one of the most affordable places to have work done on our boat. I'm excited to design some new stuff.
We are of two minds leaving the boat and heading back. We love our boat, despite everything that has broken, and we will miss her dearly. However, it is hurricane season and we just can't make it north on our budget and with such a tight timeline. We are fairly apprehensive about the "real world". We have been looking for work only to have our new cruiser social habits of, "Hi, how are you lets be friends." attitude being responded to with cold apathy. People seem so guarded. It appears the battle for generation Y continues, no one seems to want to hire young adults. It feels like older generations running the show like to imply our age is young and therefore we are immature and incapable. We have been reading the news and it appears because we are 30 we are all co-dependent children living in our parents basement, having them pay all our bills, while we live fearful in a life clouded with anxiety. Ummmmm, ok.
When you get out there and do something like Jennie and I have done, no really one cares. It was amazing how many people we have met who had just completed their circumnavigations, and even fellow sailors were very apathetic to their achievement, a bland congrats and change of subject. So we go back after an experience that challenged our capabilities to extreme extents and are faced with a world that has not changed in the least in a year and a half. What has happened, are people so risk adverse these days that they intimidate themselves into paralysis?
We wrote the blog to inspire others to go out and live their dreams, and we have inspired some. Don't worry, we will keep writing, just not as often and it will be a while before we have new tropical islands to explore.
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
This Ain't Over
Well Cypraea is starting to look put away, we have the sails off and unfortunately the motor out. The motor was already almost fully taken apart, so we will be doing a flight back down at somepoint with an overhaul parts kit for the mechanic. It will be nice to have a new(ish) motor in the boat.
Other than that it has been pretty dull for us here. We are taking Dex to the Vet for Mexican papers (mainly for flying him back later). Then it is pack up, clean up, and head up to Canada.
We have also been faced with the dreaded job market. Is it getting better? Too soon to say, but the haunting familiarity of long periods of unemployment and low wages is creepy back into our minds. The nice thing is we now have a firm escape route, to Mexico!
Mexico is a nice change, at least when it comes to accessibility, and prices. We can take the collective to Tapachula for 16 pesos. There we go to Wal-Mart and buy fresh produce at awesome prices 75 cents a kilogram for tomatoes, $3 for a massive water melon, and the produce is so much better than down south. The heat here is a bit tough, I think when the kitty gets replenished we will replace the coil on our AC. The sweet thing is we have access here to an AutoZone where we can buy R22 for the AC and R134 for the fridge off the shelf in reasonably sized bottles and with small pressure gauged filling attachments. On the west coast of Canada people just don't appreciate good AC like down here. It also hasn't been windy, so when the breeze picks up that will be nice.
We took The D to the vet, he was so well behaved. And for the very reasonable rice of $500 pesos ($45) Dex got a vet visit, a full vaccination workup (3 shots, deworming, rabies......) and his Mexican Health Certificate. In Canada it would have run us a couple hundred.
Just struggling to keep working and get the last few things done on the boat. Cypraea will get a long rest in Mexico and a bunch of work done in the next year.
It is very different on the Pacific side, so may west coasters, even people from our hometown. Don't worry, we miss our friends in the Caribbean immensely. The social aspect of west coast cruising is way less than in the Caribbean.
I haven't really written a post as of late, mainly because we have not to much to say. We are apprehensive about leaving the warm weather, entering a cold social climate, and dealing with an apathetic job market. Yay!
Other than that it has been pretty dull for us here. We are taking Dex to the Vet for Mexican papers (mainly for flying him back later). Then it is pack up, clean up, and head up to Canada.
We have also been faced with the dreaded job market. Is it getting better? Too soon to say, but the haunting familiarity of long periods of unemployment and low wages is creepy back into our minds. The nice thing is we now have a firm escape route, to Mexico!
Mexico is a nice change, at least when it comes to accessibility, and prices. We can take the collective to Tapachula for 16 pesos. There we go to Wal-Mart and buy fresh produce at awesome prices 75 cents a kilogram for tomatoes, $3 for a massive water melon, and the produce is so much better than down south. The heat here is a bit tough, I think when the kitty gets replenished we will replace the coil on our AC. The sweet thing is we have access here to an AutoZone where we can buy R22 for the AC and R134 for the fridge off the shelf in reasonably sized bottles and with small pressure gauged filling attachments. On the west coast of Canada people just don't appreciate good AC like down here. It also hasn't been windy, so when the breeze picks up that will be nice.
We took The D to the vet, he was so well behaved. And for the very reasonable rice of $500 pesos ($45) Dex got a vet visit, a full vaccination workup (3 shots, deworming, rabies......) and his Mexican Health Certificate. In Canada it would have run us a couple hundred.
Just struggling to keep working and get the last few things done on the boat. Cypraea will get a long rest in Mexico and a bunch of work done in the next year.
It is very different on the Pacific side, so may west coasters, even people from our hometown. Don't worry, we miss our friends in the Caribbean immensely. The social aspect of west coast cruising is way less than in the Caribbean.
I haven't really written a post as of late, mainly because we have not to much to say. We are apprehensive about leaving the warm weather, entering a cold social climate, and dealing with an apathetic job market. Yay!
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