Janabanana to San Diego

Monday, October 28, 2013

Oct 28 - New blog info

Hi everyone! We are getting ready for the next leg of our adventure. I have started a new blog to keep you up to date on our travels to La Paz and beyond. The website for the new blog is Janabananatolapaz.blogspot.com

Hope you will follow us on the new site and send us comments on the blog or through Facebook, Instagram, emails or texts. Being out of the USA, we may not be able to post as often as we don't want to rack up international roaming charges. We will post as wifi is available and as we learn how to navigate Mexican communications. We can also be reached through free apps such as Viber and KIK. The blog is set up now and our trip starts with us leaving San Diego on Nov. 7th and arriving in La Paz on Nov 19th. We are traveling with the FUBAR rally, a group of 40+ cruisers. This should be a blast and we are excited for this trip.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

San Diego Day 4

Spent the night at Kevin and Cindy's. Got up and left, stopped at McDonalds for an Egg McMuffin. Ronnie and Brayden came to see us and check out the Janabanana.

Ronnie and Brayden went on a dinghy ride with David

Walked up to the marina office and got all checked in and paid for our first months moorage, got our keys and car passes. Had lunch at the little deli here. We ordered club sandwiches and they were huge. We should have split one. Booked our flights to go home next Tuesday. One more week to enjoy San Diego. Drove to Home Depot on Midway and bought some stuff we needed then went to West Marine on Rosencrans. Huge store. Now we are back at the boat and will stay home and BBQ some pork chops for dinner tonight.

Went on a little sunset dinghy ride. Net Gayle on the Work Not on our end dock. He and his wife Mary are going on the Fubar cruise with us.

Days are getting shorter now

We are the only ones out here

Love the reflection on the clouds

There is the Sheraton

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

San Diego Day 3 Labor Day

Went on a walk this morning along Harbor Island Drive. Going to Kevin and Cindy's to celebrate the holiday today. Thanks for a great day!

Loulou, Hunter and Chad.

Nicole and Carter

Faster, faster!

Hunter stops for a pose for Janabanana

Rick and David discussing our trip

Sandra, Cindy and Nicole

Carter says "hmmm, do I want a Tecate or Coors Light?"

Tecate it is!

Nothing beats a little patty-cake.

Time for dinner

Lobster for dinner and Cindy your beans were the best!

Pops showing Carter how to grill up some lobster tails

I can do it myself!

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Monday, September 2, 2013

San Diego Day 2

Got the dinghy down after breakfast. Filled it up at the fuel dock and went for a long ride around San Diego Harbor. Hot outside so a perfect day for a fast boat ride.

San Diego skyline

Tall ships are in Port. They were blowing their cannons and it made me jump every time!

Looks like a picture

USS Midway

More skyline

Big city

Glorietta Bay by Coronado, crowded with boats for the holiday weekend.

Hotel Del

El Mirar anchored in Glorietta Bay. Cool slide! She's a 105 foot Horizon. They were in Bell Harbor in downtown Seattle the same time we were last summer coming home from the San Juan's.

Coronado Bridge

Another view

Pretty San Diego

I love our new home!

Cindy and Kevin came over tonight. They are taking us out for dinner at C-Level. Cindy is looking beautiful as always.

Gorgeous sunset tonight

Kevin and David at the bar waiting for our table.

Thank you Kevin and Cindy for a fun evening and delicious dinner. Looking forward to you both joining us on our next exciting adventure, "Janabanana to La Paz". In November.

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

San Diego Day 1

It's 7:00 and its already 80 and humid. Had a nice steak dinner last night here on the boat. Just relaxed and enjoyed our new surroundings. Met our neighbor Jose, he has a 60' Hatteras. Very friendly and helpful, telling us about the marina. Mark and Nicole Rowe are coming over this morning to loan us their truck to use while we are here. We need to get out and wash the JB and get all the salt scrubbed off of her. I've already done two batches of laundry and have 3 more to go. It feels good to be in our new home. San Diego, we like it!

Nice sunrise, very quiet and calm, except for the planes, but they are nothing like the planes at Salpare in PDX.

Got the boat all washed up. Kevin and Cindy came over to welcome us to San Diego. They brought us a nice little filet of Durado and fresh veggies out of their garden. Yellow pear tomatoes, yellow squash, green pepper and a green Anaheim pepper. Thanks for being our first visitors!

Thanks for the welcome gift Kevin and Cindy!

Mark and Nicole and their 16 month old son Carter came to visit around 1:30. They also brought us one of their vehicles, a very nice Ford truck to use while we are here. Thanks a ton!

Carter is a happy boy, partying down on the JB.

Carter has the bluest eyes. See you Monday Carter.

Google mapped Von's so we could take the truck and get some groceries. I used Yelp for the address and it took us to some random neighborhood. Tried again and we found it. It was the weirdest Von's I've ever been to. Two separate stores with an open area in the middle with some produce and the florist department. One side had produce, wine, beer, meat, deli, dairy and the other side had all the frozen food and everything else. Weird.

Sat on the back deck at cocktail time. Watching UFC at 7. Dinner was amazing, thanks again for the Durado Clark"s.

Fresh fish and UFC

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Day 32 - Marina Del Rey to San Diego!

Left the dock at 6:30 this morning. Beautiful sunrise. Not sure how far we will get today....Oceanside or all the way to Cabrillo Isle Marina in San Diego Harbor.