My Regrets

It’s almost time for us to leave Mexico, and I can’t believe how fast the year has flown by.  Since we made the decision to slow down and stay in the Sea of Cortez for the summer, travel has been at such a nice pace.  We’ve taken the time to enjoy the towns and anchorages we’ve been in, sometimes two or three times.  I am starting to get a little sad that we will be leaving soon, so I’m also starting to chalk up a list of regrets.  It’s a short list, but it’s a list all the same.  When we decided we would give up on Central America and jump the Pacific from Mexico, I could deal with that because I thought, well, at least we will really get to see mainland Mexico.  Turns out time still got away from us, and we even cut our touring of the mainland short.  I thought perhaps once we got out of Banderas Bay, we would just keep heading South to Zihuantanejo and jump the Pacific from there.  But when I was doing the math in my head, I realized that by the time we got there we would only have about a week, and most of that would be consumed with provisioning and final preps to leave.  Not a lot of time left for exploring a new place.  So, we regretfully made the decision we should head back to Banderas Bay, because if we are going to be doing frantic provisioning, I’d rather be doing it somewhere that I’ve already got the lay of the land.  We ended up going no further south than Tenacatita, so we didn’t even make it to Barra de Navidad, which is another cruiser favorite.  However, we thoroughly enjoyed our time at Chamela and Tenacatita and the anchorages in between, and our last cruising stint in Mexico was as it always had been, relaxed and never rushed. 

So, this is my short list of regrets: 1) No Barra 2) No Zihuat.

Although these are regrets, they do not cut very deep.  The nature of our journey will change a lot going forward, both in the type of sailing we will be doing (much more offshore than coastal) and in destinations we will visit.  It’s hard to dwell too long on regrets when you have all of that ahead of you.