Living Al Fresco...six weeks on my own. Part 1

Canadian chilli sux!!

 After the departure of my delivery crew I had a lot of time on my hands. I was still at Paradise village and several projects aboard were calling my name. Fisrt was finding a new propeller for the dingy motor. The origional one had given up the ghost after we arrived in Puerto Vallarta. My dingy is my car, so it's an essential piece of equipment.

Let me interject here to share that my boat ran perfectly on the trip down. The only issue we had was a generator waterpump impeller that went out a few days before we arrived in PV.  My bad, as that was the only one that I had forgotten to bring a spare for. We had TWO overnighted to Brian (Tom's friend) in New York and he brought it with him. Now I have a spare.

Other than the prop. everything else was cosmetic, so it was easy to procrastinate. Which I did!!!

My typical day begins with coffee on the bridge, an hour of Jerry and then some more coffee. Breakfast around 10am. Then is a bit of cleaning. Sometimes I'll walk to the mall and do a bit of shopping. Afternoons, I'll hit the beach/pool and read for a bit and admire the quivering , young flesh. This place does'nt feel like Mexico at all. In order to get to Puerto Vallarta proper, it requires a taxi or bus ride. There was a bridge washed out last summer that is still under repairs. During peak traffic, it can take up to an extra hour t get into town. I've only ventured into town twice since I got here.

There are a lot of Xpats here, especially Canadians (EH?) I've met a few and this is a very friendly community. Most live in the condo developments around Nuevo Vallarta during the winter. From what I hear, it get so hot and humid here in the summer, it becomes a ghost town.

Canadians at play...Chilli cook-off in Bucerias

Alex, Kaitlyn and Ronelle are going to be arriving Dec. 29th , staying thru New Years, so I'm really looking forward to the company.