Truck and Trailer Travel Tales: Life in La Ventana. Notre vie a La Ventana.

Life has been very easy going and nice down here. After about 10 weeks of going down the east coast and then crossing the whole of the southern USA, living in our small trailer Biggy Bob, in often cold weather, life in a house was really what was needed!

La vie est tres relaxe et agreable ici. Apres 10 semaines a traverser la cote est et ensuite le sud des Etats Unis dans notre petite roulotte, nous etions tous prets a vivre dans une maison pour un bout de temps.

A typical day here starts with me going for a SUP paddle on the sea of Cortez (my favourite body of water). It is turquoise with either lovely sandy bottom or rocks/corals with many sightings of tropical fish! Frigate birds are in the sky as are the brown pelicans. Lovely sight! I paddle generally for 1h30 minutes and often bring my snorkeling gear with me and have a snorkel from the SUP to look at the many fish. No sharks sightings so far...

Un jour typique ici commence avec un tour sur ma planche SUP sur la mer de Cortez qui merite maintenant la premiere position sur mon palmares des mers favorites! L'eau est turquoise avec le fond sablonneux ou rocailleux avec coraux. Je peux voir des poissons tropiquaux du haut de ma planche. Souvent j'apporte mes palmes et mon masque de plongee pour aller nager avec eux de ma planche SUP. Il y a plusieurs oiseaux 'frigate' et des pelicans bruns dans le ciel!

Ce matin la, la mer etait calme mais desfois il y a des vagues. J'essaie d'y aller avant que le vent se leve vers midi en general.

This day the sea was calm but sometimes there are waves. I try to go before the wind gets going around noon.

Pendant ce temps, les garcons ecrivent dans leurs journaux de voyage et font leur mathematique avec l'enseignant Monsieur Fun (sous son vrai nom de Gareth)! Il chante des chansons, danse et utilise toujours des materiaux interessants.
During this time, the boys write in their journals and do math with their teacher: Mr. Fun. (aka Gareth) He sings, dances and uses interesting materials!

IN the afternoon, Gareth goes kitesurfing. We either drive him to the north beach called Hotsprings beach (there are natural hotsprings there!!) and play on the beach a bit. Gareth goes from there down wind all the way to where our house is, in the main part of town.

Les apres-midis, Gareth fait du kitesurf. Nous le conduisons souvent a la plage au nord qui s'appelle Plage des Bains Thermaux (car il y a des bains thermaux naturels la). Rendus la, nous jouons sur la plage, ou lisons nos livres. Gareth descend la plage vers le sud, en 'descendant' le vent jusqu'a notre maison au centre du village.

Nous voici dans les bains thermaux. Here we are in our natural 'jacuzzi'.

Gareth getting ready for his kitesurf all decked out in UV protected wear!

Gareth qui est pret a aller faire son kitesurf tout vetu de vetements protecteurs des rayons du soleil!

Kitesurf reussi! Great kitesurf!

View from above of Hotsprings Beach. Vue aerienne de la plage des Bains Thermaux.

Il y a des fleurs superbes dans ce desert aride et sec! Amazing flowers manage to grow in this dry and arid desert!

After we drop Gareth off, we come back home for French with Mrs. 'Lets get this over and done with'. No singing or dancing, we focus on getting our work done fast. Not as fun but some perks are that for recess, they get to go to Playa Central this bar/community space in front of our house to play ping pong! They have become amazing players, taking on whoever dares try!

I have decided to read to them this fun National Geographic Encyclopedia on Oceans.

Some of us like to build forts out of the cushions!

Recess time! Recreation!

Physical Education: Education Physique

Social Studies! or Hanging out with Friends. As per usual we meet many a Rosslander down here in La Ventana!

Here is Lewis McBride launching for a kitesurf with Gareth!

This is dinner afterwards with Lewis, Sue and someone else we met that spends lots of time down here, Bruce.

Bruce and I enjoy Pina Coladas at El Gran Sueno, a 5 star resort that always seems to be empty...

Finished a snorkeling session- before the Pina Coladas (of course)

Boys enjoy a lovely lemonade and feel like movie stars. This restaurant has a pool and a slide!

Playa Central does not only offer a ping pong table but world famous margaritas, turns out! We had to sample some. Phew, they are good (and too strong!)