With our friends still in town after the Halloween party, we head out with Moose, Sensei, Amara, and Katie to Chiczen Itza. They are the famed mayan ruins that are considered one of the New Seven Wonders of the world. Along the drive we get pulled over aft...
After failing to make it to Chichen Itza the previous week, we decide to head with Lala and Adam down to the Coba Mayan ruins west of Tulum. We had the place almost to ourselves getting there early, and it left enough time to drive to Valladolid, Mexico to...
November was full of Hurricanes in the western Carribbean, especially Hurricane IOTA passing over one of our next locations, Providencia, Colombia.
So we waited a few more weeks for the weather to pan out and started provisioning and prepping the boat for...
We review the Mac and Cheese box we saw the most in Mexico made by La Moderna. We saw a few other options for elbow noodles and a chipotle version, but this was the closest to what "Blue Box" would be in the states! Bone Apple Tea'
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We are finally on the move again!!! It was good to get out of Mexico amid all the worries if countries would be open due to Covid. We were unable to get a solid answer if sea transit to Honduras was ok, so we decided to bite the bullet and take the 5 day j...
After 5 days at sea getting knocked around in large swells, we arrived to Providencia, Colombia. They had Hurricane IOTA rip through about a month prior and you could see the destruction as we motored into the harbor. After many attempts with an agent on l...
We arrived on the shores of Panama to see market stores lined with blue box and other "Made in the USA" stamped Mac boxes. Then we found Rey's Brand quickly bought 8 boxes not knowing how it'd taste. Purely based on the look of the picture!!!
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The first x3 of many Panamanian beers we (Alan & Kruger) found in our local grocery store, we throw back Soberana, Balboa, and Panama beers in some cool locations with special guest Diana, Nadia, and a furry primate friend!
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Legally in Colombia, we head out and explore the island of San Andres just in time for Christmas. We bid farewell to James to head back to the USA, and we spend Christmas Eve with a new friend that invited us to his local neighbor hood to show us who they ...
The second round of Panamanian beers we found in our local grocery store, we throw back Balboa Ice, Prima, Atlas Golden Light, and Atlas Lager beers in some cool locations with special guest Diana.
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We do a 2 day sail from San Andres Colombia to Panama to get ready for the Panama Canal crossing, find out we have a pretty cool feature on our autopilot, go over our Radar system and dodge a lot of container ships waiting to transit the canal! We test neg...
Part of our Panama Canal transit process was paying for it all in the city of Colon. Multiple friends, guidebooks, and locals said this was a SUPER dangerous city to be in. So of course after we paid our transit fee, we decided to buy some cans of premixed...
Our friend Diana comes down to help us cross the canal as a line handler, but before we cross the canal we do some site seeing! First we check out the old Spanish Fort San Lorenzo built in the late 1500’s on the Chagres River about 8 miles from Colon. Th...
After a propane explosion from the neighboring restaurant occurred on 26 April 2021(not the 27th). Mirimar Lobster House and other restaurants burned down as a result.
Mirimar's staff and owners were like family for ourselves and many other sailors and c...
For our 2 day southbound transit of the Panama Canal (1 day for northbound) After being told by the Canal Authority to anchor in "The Flats" at noon, we waited over 4 hours until our advisor came aboard and directed us to the canal. We tied onto a tug so w...
After spending the evening in Lake Gatun, a new advisor arrives the next morning to take us the remainder of the transit south to the Pacific Ocean through the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks!
Barrett Young & PJ Kelliher thanks for the GoPros, they ...
Here is a time-lapse of our Southbound Transit of the Panama Canal in our 40' Bavaria sailboat in January 2021. 3 locks up 85 ft to Lake Gatun from the Caribbean, 28 nautical miles across the canal, and 85 ft down into the Pacific. It's not a continuous v...
In this episode, we go over the preparation process on how to cross (transit) the ⛴Panama Canal🚢. We walk you through what we did, how much it cost us, and lessons learned. It ended up being super simple and we are glad we didn't pay and extra $500 fo...
Here is the raw footage from our Gopros and iPhones of the January 2021 Southbound (Caribbean to Pacific) transit of the Panama Canal. Includes some time lapses.
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We needed to make power during night sails, so we looked for quality and affordable wind generators. We decided on Nature Power after a friend's recommendation, and tackled trying to install with little knowledge on electrical stuff. The controller ended u...
After we crossed the Panama Canal. We said goodbye to Diana and headed back to Illinois and Florida respectively to visit family, get doctors check ups, and order a few parts for the boat.
Alan took a side trip down to Guatemala to visit a friend working ...
We take a personal tour of the Presidential Palace in Panama, called the Palacio de las Garzas (Herons' Palace) with our friend and fellow West Point Graduate Mario!
We finally get our new Spinnaker sail! We checkout the views from Gamboa. As we wait on ...
With French Polynesia being closed for boaters due to COVID-19, we start to tackle a few tasks to keep busy. We don't want to sail to the Galapagos until we know FP is open. We bought a Nature Power wind generator back in the states, and have a long proces...
We stumbled upon a box of Turkish made boxed Mac & Cheese while shopping in Panama and had to give it a go. Besler Brand!
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While waiting to move onto the Galapagos, we visit some cool historical sites around Panama including the Camino Las Cruces, French & American Cemetery, and French Monument to their canal attempt. We tackle fixing our water maker, and friends stop by f...
I saw a vegan Mac and cheese in the supermarket and had to see what it was all about. Product of Canada.
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Finally, we pulled the trigger and left Panama not knowing if we'd be able to get west with COVID border closures constantly changing. We picked up 2 new crew, Don from Canada and Nicolas from Mexico. Nicolas changed his mind at the last minute, but none t...
We taste two of the more popular brands in Ecuador during our time in the Galapagos Islands. Our footage of Endmica Beer, the local brew from San Cristobal, Galapagos, was corrupted so we only have these two.
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We finally leave Panama enroute to Galapagos! It was a 9-day sail where we saw dolphins, turtles, sharks and lots of birds before finally arriving in San Cristobal. The birds ended up bending our wind vane and followed us the entire trip. We experienced 4-...
We started to move onto US brands of booked Mac & Cheese we've been finding abroad. First up, Essential Everyday!
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About halfway through our Pacific Ocean crossing from the Galapagos Islands to the Marquises Islands we decided to test out some of the tech we brought aboard. We are using ACR's AISLink CB2 AIS Transponder and running it through WiFi onto our iPhones usin...
We found another Essential Everyday brand in Tahiti, but this time it's the "Deluxe" version. Like its' craft counterpart, no powder cheese packets with milk and butter mixed in. This bad boy comes with it's own squeeze cheese packet.
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After a long and somewhat eventful 9 days at sea, we arrived in the Galapagos and check in. We needed to apply weeks beforehand and use an agent. They brought everybody and their mother aboard to check us in searching the boat for certain foods, expired me...
Don works with Carpenters in San Cristobal to get a temporary fix for the helm seat that he accidentally knocked off during the passage. We check out the San Cristobal Interpretation Center to learn all about the rich history of the Galapagos Islands! We c...
With our final crew member for the Pacific passage, Leslie, arriving. The band was all together and we ventured out on a self led bus tour across the island of San Cristobal to see the sights. ($100 USD total) We headed up first to the highest point of the...
With only a few days before we departed, we squeezed in one more tour to see the island. This time we did it via water. You're not allowed to explore in your own boat. You must use a local tour company, and you can't even dingy into shore on your own.
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