That was yesterday. We got a happy-new-year phone call from our friends on Sundancer, with whom we are planning on meeting up with to go to El Salvador together. Anyway, Mike and Ron were talking about the problems with the outboard and the end result was that Mike fiddled with it some more and now it is working fine! Here is what happened. This engine needs to be flushed out with fresh water periodically, and that was done when we left Mazatlan. There is a little valve that shuts during the flushing process, and this valve got stuck, not allowing any water to go through the engine to cool it. So now it is working fine and we are no longer boat bound. We went into town yesterday and watched KC beat Denver. I hate Denver so that was fun. I could care less about KC. MIke is more of a St. Louis fan than KC, so there is no conflict there. I don't like playoff time because sometimes you sort of havbe to root for teams you don't like in order to further your own team down the line. I mean really - I could NEVER root for Minnesota or Dallas no matter what.
On a different note, I was feeling sort of sorry for myself while the outboard was on the fritz. There is no water taxi service here, so we were not going to be able to go to any of the New Year's Eve festivities. Had we been in Mazatlan - no problem, we have plenty of friends who would chauffer us around. Here, we don't know anyone well enough to be comfortable asking for that. But here is what happened. We had gone on the morning cruiser's radio net to ask if anyone knew of any outboard mechanics in the area. We were given a few suggestions, and that was that. But after the net, we were hailed by a man who offered to take us to shore. Later, this couple here (the sponsors of the El Salvador Rally) offered the use of their dinghy and outboard for the entire day! Can you believe that? That is like someone offering to lend their car to someone they met once before. We didn't take them up on it, but I almost cried. I had been feeling sort of alone, and then that happened.
So we stayed on the boat which turned out to be a great decision. We didn't drink too much, had a movie marathon, and at midnight, we went out and saw fireworks all along the shoreline. This is a big, curving, bay, and for almost 180 degrees we could see display after display going up. All of the big hotels that line the beach had displays. It was wonderful - one of the best displays I have ever seen. It was a really nice New Years and it was good to just be together, reflecting about what we want the next year to be like for us. We have some work to do, I will leave it at that. For two people who have literally everything they could desire, we seem to spend a lot of time complaining and picking at each other over absolutely nothing worthwhile.
We are planning to leave here in a couple days - I have mapped out stops between here and Zihuatanejo. While it is nice here, it seems too big. And the vibe is different and I don't like it as much. So far Sinaloa is my favorite Mexican state due to the friendliness and the kindness of the people and the overall feeling of the area, drug cartel problems not withstanding. La Cruz is a charming town, and of course Puerto Vallarta is a great vacation city, but it is just not for me. I wonder if some of that was due to the incredible hype this place recieved from other people. Nothing could live up to that, probably.
Anyway, my short attention span is kicking in , so I should end this post before it becomes a series of unrelated babbling paragraphs. Carpe Diem!
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