April 1, 2011

We are now at our land home and for about a month we will be taking care of business here. We have no date to return to Why Knot but we will have boat related activities even before we return. We brought home the Abaco charts and guides along with a few hundred pounds of stuff we do not need aboard. That included our spinnaker that occupied the space of another human in our aft cabin. The fact is that we have flown it exactly two minutes in six years. It has not earned space aboard Why Knot. The triple redundant winter clothes also took up space also. We think that if we need many winter clothes some bright, shiny morning we will head south pronto, most ricky ticky.
Some curious things have taken place the past two days. For one, we are starting to lose our swaying motion after just three days on land. Bear and I can stand without holding on to something. Wow, how cool is that? We fight the urge to get on our knees to look into the refrigerator (as we have to aboard) and the light in the standup unit is a great invention. Bear does not need a stool to look in the back of the freezer, which by the way is empty. I have not been hit by a mayonnaise jar from the fridge since being home. Unlimited hot water is a great, not just good, thing. It is also good to sleep in the same direction as Bear as opposed to head-to-toe as we do aboard. The floor does not make squeaking sounds as we walk. I have yet to adjust the dock lines here. Nothing drips in my ear while sleeping. Soft drink cans do not explode. We can get to our stuff without unpacking everything on top of it. We are using actual chairs. We have our own wheels and access to fresh veggies. Thursday is not necessarily a special day to get bread or fresh fruit. Our neighbors make no noise. I have not heard a bow thruster or pump of any kind in four days. There is no pump on our head and one of the best things is the fact that we do not need tokens or quarters to operate the washer and dryer. I do not listen to weather reports at 0600 here. All that said, we are listening to island music this morning and dreaming of the time when we are back aboard once again. I tell ya, those islands have etched our hard drive and we will go there again.
We hope to post many more photos of the islands and of the Atlantic Coast. Our home Wi-Fi connection is much faster than most we have used recently and we should be able to post them.
Phase V starts when we climb back aboard Why Knot and head north. Until then, we will enjoy Texas