Hello friends and family; we are once again in the USA! Yesterday we cleared customs at Point Roberts (a unique appendix of USA 4.9 square miles) surrounded by the Straits of Georgia on 3 sides and Canada on the north, stayed the night there in Pt Roberts Marina with 1000 pleasure boats - missing the fish boats and their crews which made all our previous stops in AK and BC so interesting.

This morning we're southbound again; one more overnight and we'll be in Seattle. Can hardly believe we (with much help from friends and sometimes strangers) have done it... it's a long way from Port Bonbonon and tiny Apo I (9º05'N) at the southern tip of Negros I, Philippines to Juneau AK (58º+N), not to mention from one side of the Pacific to the other. Many of our boating friends have done much more - e.g. circumnavigations etc - but this was challenging enough for us (for now).