First, a word of explanation as to why the blog hasn't been updated lately. It ain't for lack of trying! Every so often, just to make our lives more fun, the blog site has a little game it plays. You log on, it goes to the "Add or Edit a Blog Entry" page, then when you click on that, it displays a fun little message that says, "You have to be logged in to do that." So it sends you back to the log-in page and the whole fun game starts again! Doesn't that sound like fun? It is SO much fun that it encourages us to make up fun little expressions and ways to describe the site, many of them containing four letters or beginning with the letter "F."

Okay, so EVERY day is accounted for if you have the time to waste going back and reading them all.

We're in Pender Harbour, north of Vancouver, after a brutal trip down Malaspina Strait today. We spent four fun-filled hours crashing into a 25-knot southerly wind. That's right, southerly. A wind that only blows up here in the summer on days when fools named "Long" are trying to go south. The only good thing to say about this day is that it is over and there's a pub here. This is the same place we stayed in both 1984 and 1985, but you'd never recognize it as the same place.

The forecast is for more southerly tomorrow so we may try to outwit the Cosmic Forces and stay right here one more day. They claim the winds will moderate come Friday. We've heard that before.