Tommy Bonds wrote this morning with some questions & comments:
Glad you found Lynne, she is a worker!!!
Thanks Tommy. i am sitting by Lynne in the marina 'work room' a common room ~ 75' x 200' with 2 small TV rooms that seat 8 each in old movie theater seats. (think kids with cartoons and that type show) 4 standard size picnic tables, 5 'patio size' round tables with benches, the mail tables ~30' long that they put packages onto. (behind that sits the library of donated / swap books) in one corner is the 'office' with a cooler for ice to sell a printer for ... well printing. it's the honor system for donations to use it. when it works?
The picnic tables have 2 cube-taps on one end and 'Free Wifi' in this area, so the tables fill up. (especially today - Saturday) Why does the crowd increase on Saturday with a group of people who dont work - ever? seems like every day would be a saturday? oh well, happy saturday! (the guy directly across the table from me is on his laptop doing continuing education "Investing for Dummies" via his speaker. so i'll be a lot smarter pretty quick. send money and i'll double it! i plugged in headphones and turned on some music.)
Are you selling many pictures? nope. i'm still learning that process. thanks for reminding me Tommy! *NOTE: please give me recommendations on any shots worth putting up for sale?
So many boats anchored everywhere you go, any estimates on how many full time cruisers there are out there?
How many cruisers? heck if i know. some are seasonal, while others are retired and some appear to be running from the law! some are full time and others are taking a sabbatical, or are on a vacation of sorts with plans to return to land at a fixed date. (are part timers and vacationers counted as cruisers?) i only see a tiny portion of the local cruisers in the port i'm actually in. For instance, there are about 30 people in this room now. but i know there are 226 boats on mooring balls today with another 30 or so at anchor. i cant guess how many people that is. Now multiply that by every port and then count all over the world. There are a lot of cruisers!
Glad you are doing well, can tell you are excited about the next leg of the journey. Something about going to another country that makes it more mysterious!
Yes i'm in a nice safe comfortable place here. i'm surrounded by like minded folks with a common language and goal. Although we are not headed to the same place, we are all headed somewhere. Even those who never leave have managed to get here and are cruisers because of that regardless if they ever leave or not. They are living their dream. *i posted recently about Moray and Debbie and how they were going to the Bahamas. I got an email last night from Moray, "We are in Morgans Bluff (bahamas) took us 30 hours and the trip was a breeze." i just need to work down through my to-do list and then get a weather window... (easy? NOT!) i'LL GET'ER DONE!
more later. -S
