BACK TO THE YUCATáN IN 2016

We drove from Chelan to near the southern border of the Yucatán last year and that odyssey was never written up. But this year we're flying again and I'll have more time to write.

LEAVING THE RANCH

Snow has stopped. We have our 16' Lund Boat cleared of snow. Waterlines cleared and electricity turned off.  The tractor and 4 wheel drive are up in the llama barn with batteries disconnected and we're ready to leave the ranch.

We were getting our luggage encased in garbage bags to take to the shore and we ran across several of these, quite near the cabin..and then some baby ones up at the garden.

Yes, the cougars are back.

On board our boat, Jim pulled the 9 ½ motor with the rope...oops...rope broke. Now it's time to manually wind around, give a couple blasts of starter fluid, pull the rope and oops. Started but died. Again. Yeah...no, backing up killed the motor. Again...YES....we're off.

Well, 25 Mile Creek State Park where we keep our truck and car were not snowplowed so we used our handy, cracked toboggan sled to pull up the boxes, luggage and finally the motor, gas, into the truck...that we didn't dare drive down the ramp.

Yes, we're off to our daughter and son-in-law's in Seattle for Christmas and then flying to Mexico.