Patience

We have not left for our travel up the coast yet and hopefully that will still happen on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday now.  Alfredo lightly sanded the first coat of epoxy paint we so diligently spent two days applying, and hopefully, the spraying starts today. We met some great people from Maine who are on race boats on their way around the world with about 28 other yachts and had great fun sharing life stories with them; when they all left yesterday, we waved good-bye, hoping to see them again someday in the future, perhaps even with a chance to explore the East Coast and the Chesapeake Bay.  David and I are also finishing up the last of the little projects of reorganizing and fixing stuff, and we are anxious to get on with our water adventure. Looks like Machu Pichu might be something I will have to do later in life, and I am quite disappointed. We are checking out the possibility of going to Choquequirao instead. Our cruising friends, Jerrold and Anns from Holland, are putting into the water tomorrow and will be off to the Galapagos the week after; we hope to play a last bocce ball tourney today with them and Josie and Steve from England, have Friday sundowners, and do the barbeque place in Salinas his evening. My, what a busy schedule we have!


(Later the same day) As of now, we either have to move back to the chain-saw boat-building fishing area, or we need to wait for two sailboats near us to move before spraying. Sooooo, we have chosen to wait and hopefully will start spraying tomorrow or Monday. We hope it is tomorrow since we are anticipating a tour of the coast north of here before phase III, the bottom painting begins. I have learned quickly, though, that patience is truly a virtue in the cruising world, and we need to take one day at a time. 

Meanwhile, I send photos of fun times with our friends Jerraldo and Annis from Holland and  Josie and Steve from England.  Soon they will both be leaving for the Galapagos, with Sidewinder not too far behind them. The next pictures are of great people we met from the Around the World Race/Rally group, ARC, who just left here yesterday on a race to the Galapagos after a week here in this crazy little, unstable marina. It truly was a rock 'n' roll scene!  Bill and Rosemary from Crazy Horse and Bob and Maggie on Jasper were really great people from Maine, and some day we hope to see them again. How fun would it be to sail on the Chesapeake Bay with them or to ski the Rockies. I believe we will meet up with them somewhere, some way.  The last picture is of Alfredo finishing up the very fine sanding of our first layer of barrier coat epoxy, tediously painted on by David, Suzi and Alfredo. Life is to be embraced!