I am now in the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (actually typing at a business center in the airport hotel. i 'sweet talked' the front desk girl to let me "work" for just ten minutes. *Mom you were right, you do get more girls by using honey!) if all goes well i'll be back on my boat by 8pm. i have already flown this morning across P.R. and have another connection in 3 hrs back to Texas.
We made the sail East finally from Luperon, DR in two night passages (6p-8a) down the DR coast to Samana. this is where we jumped off for the big passage to Puerto Rico. we completed the trip two days ago from Samana Republic of Dominica across 140 miles of deep blue ocean to P.R. we anchored in Boqueron after a 24 hour sail across. (Introducing Boquerón Easy-going Boquerón, where Puerto Rico meets the Caribbean with a cool Calypso twist, is a colorful west-coast fishing community with wooden-shack restaurants and open-air food stalls that pulsates at weekends to a jaunty but inherently Puerto Rican nightlife. )
This is where i finally climbed off the s/v Hakuna Matata and began my trip home. A special thanks to Craig and Angela for such splendid hospitality and gracious hosting - for putting up with me a month! (imagine a 'guest' in YOUR home for a month... now imagine your entire home is the size of your bedroom and i'm living in your closet. that's the space and confines of a sailboat) i had a great time and really enjoyed the sailing. i am afraid now at how much i dont know and am just begining to see.
well, my ten minutes are about up and i dont want to get kicked out of yet another hotel, so i'll sign off for now. i promise to write more tomorrow from home and include lots of photos.
Pirate Skip
LIFE on s/v Prodigal.... "Oh God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small."
