They snaked up through the pristine San Blas islands and lingered there as long as they could. I did not want to leave. When we get back to the States, we know what we'll be doing for work. We had ourselves a ball out here. Placentia has a sidewalk running through it instead of a road, and folks just amble along, chat.
Life is slow and hot.
Earl told us that awhile back he and Sue had spent a year cruising with a boat named Magdalena , and now they were trying to catch up with their friends for a last hurrah. We'd heard Magdalena check in from Belize, about 60 miles north, on the morning net on the SSB, and told Earl to come on over to Ithaka the next morning, use our radio and go on the net and try to make contact. Herman's a sour-dough starter, and he's been living in my fridge. I got him from Magdalena two years ago, who got him seven or eight years before that from a boat called Carpe Diem . They got him from some old Venezuelan lady, who said he'd been in the family for generations.