Our Life

Kyle ties up the boat at the dinghy dock. The coffee mug is mine; the sun is just up and it's way too early for me to function without help!
[Maryanne]Kyle left for work a couple of days ago and I thought I'd share with you folks his commute plan.

• Day before he needs to start work
  
  • leave boat early in Morning and row to shore
    
  • Walk to airport (this can be several hours in some places, but here it's just 5 minutes from the dinghy dock)
    
  • Get flight to Puerto Rico
    
  • Get connecting flight to Newark
    
  • Take bus to crash pad for night
• Day of work
  
  • Take bus to airport from crash pad
    
  • Turn up for work on time
    

If only Kyle could manage a train ride in there, he'd have most modes of transport covered (there may even be a train involved once he gets to Newark)!

While Kyle is away this time, I took a Ferry back to Virgin Gorda and met with my new Hero and his family - those that found my purse and managed to track me down to reunite us. I was very happy, and Young Christian, the 10 year old who started the recovery process, really is my Hero.

Since then, I've been getting a cell phone service sorted out, looking for propane refill stations (still looking), laundromats etc. Trellis Bay is quite remote and with few facilities, so I took my bicycle off to explore this afternoon... I almost made it as far as Road Town (The capital) but there were hills involved, and once Road Town was in sight, I could see even more hills.. I figured I'd left it too late for the day to go all the way there and return before dark - so I'll save those extra hills for another day.

An oar broke the other day, and (since the last time) we have spare oars which we've been using. Today I finally got around to fixing the broken one (we already had the spare part aboard - all I had to do was drill out the old connector piece, and install the new one with my trusty rivet tool). The old (now fixed) oars are MUCH BETTER; it has been so windy there really was an incentive to fix the oar since the old oars have much larger blades and are longer - I appreciate the extra leverage with all this wind.

We can only stay in the BVI for a month before we owe Temporary Import duty on the boat (about $200), so Kyle has been busy rescheduling our sailing time to include a couple of passages to the USVI to break up our planned time here. The USVI are really close, so it's no big deal. At the moment, I have no idea where we are going when, so it shall be a nice surprise when Kyle gets home and tells me the final plan.

I'll keep you posted