130 Days! Going North 44 Stops! Going South Only 8 stops in the same place! This makes for a mini-book or an eight part, 160 page narration with almost 200 color photographs. Oh, and a few video clips.

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There are many reasons we're vegan. Here's just a few to think about; find your own path.

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In 2004, we set out from Seattle to sail around Vancouver Island.  This is our chance to test the ocean waters with our new gear and to see the Pacific Northwest Wilderness one last time before heading south. We managed to photograph bears, whales, deer, eagles, dense old growth forests, hot springs paradise, and many cool anchorages and hikes.

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Our first long ocean passage found us departing in fog, almost getting mowed down by a fishing boat 50 miles out, then we couldn't find wind, got trapped in West Port, and finally departed the West Pit. If that wasn't enough we had another 3 day storm coming once we were 100 miles out. We diverted to Crescent Bay, went through some rough weather and fog, made new friends, toured the red woods, stopped in Fort Bragg, and then finally passed under the Golden Gate Bridge!

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We saw crazy houseboats, a ton of sea life, visited family, braved a giant waterspout that made the LA TIMES cover, celebrated a birthday, visited SARANA's birth place, we save KORN's bassist from drifting out to sea, and the weather warms up.

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After the metropolis and smog of southern california we were glad to be out at sea again headed for more wilderness. But the weather didn't coorporate, the autopilot gear failed, we got smashed landing the dinghy, shared Thanks Giving with cruisers, did a lot of hiking, and eventually found our way to Mazatlan.

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After finally reaching Mexico we spend Christmas with family, friends, tequila and I learned to surf. We also blow out an impeller and I almost sliced my finger off.

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A long trip up the inside coast of the Baja Pennsula where we see lots of sea-life, climb canyons and volcanos, and do a lot of sailing with our friends.

Related Slog Links: Birthday | Yard Work and Friends | Hauled Out! | Comings and Goings | Across the Sea | Otis fizzled | It's hitting the fan | Otis | Back in the B of LA Again | Cat Attack! | Estanque stinks! | Now hail Caleta Pulpito | All hail Puerto Refugio | Still Going | Going Ever Still | Going North | Hanging Out | Sailing in B of LA | Whales and Chubascos | Fin Whales at Isla Mitlen | Mexican San Juan Islands | In Bay of LA | The Perfect Day | 1000 Dolphins and bunches of Sperm Whales | Sarana Tortillas | Night Sky | Is the heat off? | Bahia San Francisquito | Further North - Punta Trinidad | We're off to Bahia de Los Angeles | Rain and the Cat | Cat is doing better! | Day in HELL -- Cat has Surgery | Some projects and cat litter | Las Cucarachas | Cat Vomit | SSB Nets | Some more updates to the site | Calvin | Santa Rosalia | OCTOMUSH! | Beatrice | It got hot | Oceanic Desert Heat | Professional Pet Grooming | More photos in the gallery | Cat Fish | Buzz the Cat | Sea Within a Sea | The Power of Satelites | Bahia Concepcion | Hi from Loreto | The Arroyo | Arrived Puerto Escondido | Two Photos | Hypothyroid | Sites n stuff | La Paz | Mazatlan to La Paz |

The title says it all.

Related Slog Links: Got to admit it's getting better | New News is Good News | Heat index of 143F and Sherrell | 4th surgery done | Going to Guadalajara | Damn Doctors | Mazatlan at last | Linear Accelerator | Back in the big city | Start of the battle | Breast Cancer |

Our first big trip after dealing with Cancer was designed to be simple and fun. And while we only went from Mazatlan down to Barra de Navidad Mexico, we surfed, sailed and saw lots of friends

Related Slog Links: Back in Mazatlan | Again | In Matanchen Bay | Back in Bahia de Bandaras (Puerto Vallarta) | Going back north | Do Caymans Eat People? | Barra de Navidad | Bahia Banderas | Heading out | Mazatlan at last | Linear Accelerator |

This is a very long story that covers thousands of miles of coastline of Southern Mexico and El Salvador. We sail the coast with some good friends, do a lot of surfing, take an in-land trip to Oxacca with our pets and start to get our feet wet for the first time in Central America.

Related Slog Links: San Salvador | El Salvador -- Surf that boat! | Out of the T-Pec | So far so good. | Crossing the Tehuantapec | Our own dock | Nowhere to go but up. | Back on the Boat | In Oaxaca | Bahia Jicaral | Bahia Santa Cruz | La India | Updated slog with photos | Hard to bathe with the Navy Watching | Puerto Angel | Mexican Pipeline | A week into it. | Punta Galera | Bahia Dulce how sweet it is. | Underway | Sailing into Acapulco | Zihuat Madness | Trying to lift anchor | Arrived Zihuatanejo | In Santiago Bay | Cassie 1994 - 2006 | Barra | Visitors and Slog Readers | Barra Rocks | Chamela | Thanks Giving | Stopping Entropy | La Cruz de Huanaxtle | Punta de Mita | Chacala! | Casting off | Lots going on | The "done" list |

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Along with Leonidas, we towed Batwing almost 380 miles in the open ocean, upwind to Ecuador. Fortuantely we arrived without any major problems despite it being a long tough haul.

We spent a LOT of time in Bahia de Caraquez on a mooring that we created from some 1/2 inch chain. The time seemed to roll on by as we towed a boat there, got anchored, spent two birthdays there and Halloween. We made some good friends while we stayed there and here are a few of our photos from towing Batwing, Quito, Caraquez, Banos, the Andes and more.

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We spent over 140 hours on a bus, so you wouldn't have to. We toured Northern Peru to sites not often seen by tourists.

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On our way from Ecuador we did what not many people on the planet have ever done: Cruised Colombia. We wrote a free guide for other sailors and it was one of the highlights of our cruising experience. This slide show highlights some of the places we saw along the way like Tumaco, Isla Gorgona, Utria, and Bahia de Salano.

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We couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a boat through the Panama Canal. Sailors regularly help other boats out by acting as line-handlers to transit the canal. You need four people to handle lines and they usually feed you and provide a ride back to your boat. We helped a nice couple on Moondancer X transit the canal and here are our photos from the trip.

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