On a faster boat to Galapagos
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Thu 28 Feb 2008 17:49
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Things are looking up. The place that
supplies the transmission seal we need will be shipping one from the US to
the Galapagos for arrival next Monday. This arrangement was accomplished
thanks to the wonder of email via satellite phone 250 miles from the nearest
land in the Pacific Ocean. Also, the negative current is down to one knot
from two and a half, the wind is up and we are actually sailing at five
knots. The engine and our ears are getting a needed rest.
So, it looks like we will make it to the Galapagos
after all. Although there wasn't really ever any doubt given the talent
Don displayed in setting up his ingenious transmission oil recycle
apparatus. Our latest ETA is sometime Friday afternoon (hopefully
before dinner so we can go ashore to eat instead of suffering
through another meal on board cooked by yours truly).
Oscar continues to do well, even given our delayed
arrival. He learned to play the card game of rummy yesterday and soundly
beat me (beginners luck or Ecuadorian skill?). After we downloaded our
emails, I was telling Oscar about one from our niece, Bonnie. She wrote
that she and her brother went to yet another concert (a favorite pastime of
theirs) and this time the band was named something really weird like Flogging
Mary. 'Flogging Molly you mean?' Oscar asked. Doesn't it
just figure. I am so unhip and out of touch with today's music that a
teenager from Ecuador had to correct me as to the proper name
of a hot band touring in the US. It also goes to show you how widespread
American and European culture is. A conversation about movies with Oscar
revealed that he has seen all same movies we have, has many of the same
favorites and is a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. It is, after
all, a very small world.
Anne
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