Thursday, July 18

We woke up with a brisk wind blowing and soon the water was choppy and ugly. We decided to wait and see if it got any better later in the day and it never did. We had breakfast at the camp and ate with the couple staying in the next palapa. She lives in Long Beach and he lives in Tijuana, so they have a bit of a long distance relationship. After breakfast I started reading and in a few hours I finished my Gibbons series. It is about 3200 pages of western civilization. It was well worth having read. One of the advantages of taking four months off work and living in a place which affords lots of free time is the opportunity to read things like this. We went for a hike/climb along the cliffs at sunset, then went into camp for a couple of beers and dinner. We met a kid named Gernado – the son of the owner. He is a nice, hard working kid who lives in Tijuana. He wants to be a doctor and will be going to school for that in the fall. It will be lots of work – good luck to him. Then we went to sleep because with a little luck we will be working hard tomorrow.