April 12, 2002

We had a 46-hour passage from Mazatlan to La Paz. After two nights at sea, we managed to find the 4-mile slot between an island and a reef at 3:00 a.m. that led us into La Paz. We have been here for five days now and think that this is the best city we have seen in Mexico. There are no time-shares like Puerto Vallarta, it is not as Americanized as Mazatlan, the water is aqua colored and clear and there is a GREAT ice cream store! We will be leaving on Monday to visit hundreds of possible anchorages north of here. Most of this area is uninhabited, so we will need to re-provision for about 40 days. It is doubtful that we will find e-mail services until we reach San Carlos on the mainland the third week in May.