Never Give Up and Happy Birthday Tom!!

Tom had a great birthday this year, February 11, 2014...

1) The perfect birthday present, back in La Paz after 7 months in California.

After a few weeks of tying up loose ends, a few days of insanely mad packing/storing/selling/donating/trashing, and missing our flight (but getting on another one shortly thereafter), we arrived in Cabo San Lucas. We had a lively, 3 hour bus ride from Cabo to La Paz and arrived late, exhausted, with a cold six-pack in hand, a warm evening, and a comfortable, clean boat at the end. We could finally relax!!

2) Tom's best pal Jay called him from Massachusetts, they had a great conversation and it put Tom in a terrific mood.

3) We went to Tom's favorite place, Harker Board, for dinner and the best beer in town from Baja Brewing Company.

Tom enjoys a cold microwbrew (rare in Baja) on Harker Board's new upstairs patio. 

4) We were joined by our bay area friend Rob, so we were officially a Birthday Party. (Rob sailed down to Mexico last November on his boat Tiger Beetle and we have been drooling over his blog posts ever since.) We ate loads of food, drank a lot of beer (it was 2 for 1 night), watched the sun set and the moon rise. 

We rendezvous with Rob from Tiger Beetle

A lot of you know it seemed to take us forever to get back down here. It was an incredibly busy summer jam-packed with some fun activities and some difficult ones. Maybe we will do a post on "What We Did During Our Summer Vacation".  

As we were sorting through our last boxes of junk, pulling an all-nighter of packing in what seemed a vain attempt to catch our scheduled flight, I came across a cartoon that our friend Stan had given to me before I raced to Hawaii in 2004 with my friend Synthia. It gave us renewed vigor...

Thanks Stan. Words to live by.

We made it Tom! Happy Birthday!!