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Jan. 1 2006 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Day 153 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

We went to the New Year’s celebration that we were invited to and met our friends at their friend Armin’s house. Armin built the house all on his own. He did a great job of creating a home that is one with the outdoors. We hung out there for a few hours chatting and snacking on delicious dips. Once the time was right, we headed over to where the real party was happening, at his neighbor’s ranch. It was a big fiesta with fireworks, food, and lots of music. We tried our Spanish out and carried out basic conversation with a little help from a friend 🙂 As the clock struck midnight everyone yelled Feliz Ano! and more fireworks went off and a big round of hugs and “Feliz Ano’s” went around. It was a great fiesta, similar to parties our families would have thrown. It made us feel right at home. We felt very honored to be welcomed to experience such a great celebration with a family that didn’t even know us. Thank you Armin and the Skott Family!

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Armin in his kitchen____________ The Skott Family and Armin

Resolutions. It is that time of year again to try and make promises to ourselves about bettering our lives, and then crossing our fingers that we will hold to them. Then a month later totally forget about them! I like to be realistic in my new year’s resolutions. So, I would say my new year’s resolution will not be to keep the blog up to date by posting every two/three days… since we all know that that is just a resolution to be broken, hee hee…. I think my first resolution is to learn Spanish, so that I am close to being fluent by the end of the year. Taking full immersion classes when we hit Guatemala will help us with that. And maybe another one is to send as many postcards out to people as we physically can. The only reason they have stopped this past month is because the postcards in Baja are 60 usd cents a card – and that is just a bit tooo expensive for us. So, no worries ~ our breakfast postcard writing ritual will start up again once we hit the mainland and can get better priced postcards. We haven’t forgotten about any of you! Everyone we have met on the road, all of our friends in NYC, and all of our family and friends in the Northwest ~ you are always on our minds!

Hope your new year brings the best to you and may it be better than the last year!

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Dec. 24 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Day 145 – After a six mile jaunt down a dirt road, not as bad as everyone made it out to be, we arrived in the isolated town of Cabo Pulmo, where there are only radio phones, that cost a fortune to use and a minimal grocery store. Though there are plenty of restaurants and a few snorkel and dive shops. We headed south, out of town, to the other side of a mountain ridge so we could snorkel where it was less windy. After finding a good camping spot in the dunes, we headed out to test our new snorkel gear.

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Road to Cabo Pulmo__________desertscape of Cabo Pulmo area – Taken by Peter

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Cows taking 0ver the road…

The water was pretty cold, we were told that it is supposed to be warmer than the west coast of Baja – but it wasn’t at all! We saw a bunch of different fish and a few live plants on the coral, it was pretty cool. That afternoon, after our first two short swims, we went back into town and Peter rented a wet suit from the Cabo Pulmo Dive Shop for only $50 pesos a day. Carmel, thanks for your advice on traveling, it was great meeting you, and we hope to see you sometime in the future! We are now ready for our Christmas morning dive.


Our camp cow and Peter.

In Mexico the big celebration happens on Christmas Eve – so we had a big dinner on Christmas Eve, the boys ate fried fish tacos from some homemade batter (Peter received the fish from a fisherman that had too much in his fridge) and I had some burritos. Peter brought us really great presents: some items we wanted from the states. My mom, sister, and Peter bought us a bunch of items we wanted along with some extras. Thank you guys so much for the camper meals, candy, magnets (needed them for making a bug screen), and everything else! We felt so spoiled, we didn’t think that Peter would be able to bring down anything except just a few items. I think one of the best items was a few bottles of Peter’s homebrewed beer from his master brewing process. Dark beer is nonexistent in the south and it was nice to have such a tasty porter, and it will probably be my last one until we hit Russia 😉 We got Peter a barley wine from Rogue Brewing Company, based in Portland Oregon, that was also quite tasty – he was generous enough to give us a little.

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Tasty fish taco…._________________presents on x-mas eve 🙂 – Taken by Peter.

As we were cleaning up from dinner and presents, a group of carolers came and sang to us. They invited us to a Christmas Eve celebration at someone’s RV campsite. It was an interesting time, with retired people dancing and drinking the night away. This area has a strong community of people that come down every year for the sun and holidays. It was really great for them to invite us to share in their decorated Christmas trees and music.


Christmas Carolers

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