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Friends Visit Vallarta: 2024

By Heidi & Kirk | Apr 14, 2024 |

Visiting Vallarta seems to be on everyone’s radar this year and we’ve had more visitors this past winter than all the years we’ve been in Mexico combined! So much fun to at least 24 of you! Apologies if we missed getting a photo of you in our blog. Most people don’t come to Vallarta specifically to…

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60 Trips Around the Sun & Queen for a Week

By admin-heidi | Feb 2, 2024 |

60 trips around the Sun is something to celebrate! And Kirk did an awesome job planning a FUN-filled week celebrating Heidi‘s 60th Birthday. He hit a home run with moonstone earrings, a shell bracelet, and a beautiful manta ray t-shirt, and Heidi loves all of them!   Festivities kicked off on her actual birthday, January…

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Happy Winter Solstice & Feliz Navidad 2023

By Heidi & Kirk | Dec 21, 2023 |

We hope this holiday season finds you happy and healthy, despite the chaos and sadness around the world. We continue our 30+ year meditation practice every day, sending peace, love, and healing energy around the globe, and to all of our friends and family. And we love our beach yoga tribe sending group energy to…

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Dodging a Bullet with Hurricane Lidia

By Heidi & Kirk | Oct 17, 2023 |
Due West in hurricane proof mode for Hurricane Lidia, Oct. 10, 2023

In the good news department—cuz we could all use some good news these days, right?!—we, along with Tosh & Tikka, and s/v Due West “marked ourselves safe” from last week’s Cat 4 Hurricane Lidia. This is our fourth hurricane experience, and enough is enough… but maybe that’s the price you pay to live in paradise?…

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Summer Adventures in Vallarta + 2 Trips North

By Heidi & Kirk | Aug 20, 2023 |
Puerto Vallarta Malecon in the rain.

Land ho! This summer we’ve embarked on another house-sitting gig in a brand-new house, just a mile upstream from Playa Holi Beach, in Puerto Vallarta. While we’ve loved our years of condo-sitting for our friends Judy & Paul at their beautiful ocean-front Grand Venetian condo at Playa Holi, new adventures await us as we explore…

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