Decision Time - Heading Home

We came to a point about a month ago when we needed to make a decision. We had planned to spend the Summer and Fall in Grenada and come home in January but several things changed our mind. Al would like to be available to visit his father more often and the heat in the summer is a little tough to take down here. We also need to get normal life started again. Cruising was more expensive than we thought it would be! The end result of all this is that we have decided to head for home. After living with the decision for a while we are satisfied that it is the right thing to do. We feel so fortunate that we have been able to take this trip and will always have so many amazing memories to look back on.

However. The trip is not over yet! 

We sailed from Dominica to Puerto Rico which took four days. We then spent two weeks in Puerto Rico staying in Salinas and Boqueron. Salinas was fun and we saw our friends Gary and Barbara on PaLaOla. Boqueron is a popular beach town and we loved the small shops and restaurants there.

From Puerto Rico we sailed straight to Crooked Island, Bahamas. It took 5 days which was our longest trip without additional crew.  After about two days we got into a good watch pattern that worked for us. The first part of the trip the wind and waves were behind us so we could sail. The last two days the wind died down and we had to turn on the motor but the seas flattened out and that gave us a rest. We were very happy when we threw out the anchor behind a quiet island. If we did these long trips more often we would probably get very good at it!

We are still in the Bahamas, in George Town, on Exuma Island.  The beaches are incredible here and the water is so clear.  We forgot how beautiful the Bahamas were. We came to George Town especially to visit with our friend Herman Bips from Tampa. That must be why we are still here! Herman has been showing us around and we have been enjoying this area.

We are working our way home and hope to be back in St Petersburg in August.

When we can get good internet access again we'll do a proper blog with photos!

All our best,
Frances and Al