LOOKING FORWARD

January21, 2015

It has been 5 months since our cruise altering lightening strike. Looking back is easier as time goes by. This was so random and unexpected it literally took the wind out of us. The first few weeks we were in a fog, unable to look forward or see our options clearly. The feeling of being violated and the fear of the unknown was all consuming. Slowly as we began to work through our list of things wiped out, the fog began to lift. It has just been in the last few weeks we are able to see our future cruising life again. We are now looking forward to the new things to come.

We will sail back to Portobello to provision and check out of Panama. Then before the end of February we are off to Roatan one of the Bay Islands of Honduras about 750 miles.  Our plan is still to bring It's Perfect back to the coast of US this spring. It has been too long since we have seen family and friends.  It's Perfect is also in need of a few repairs before we make a new plan and strike out on another life changing adventure. 

Whatever we decide our new adventure to be, it will be an amazing addition to the past 3 years living aboard. Our entire way of looking at life has changed. We appreciate the small things, see things differently and look forward to our much slower pace.  Life on land is a challenge for us, the hustle of everyday life in the cities that was normal to us before moving aboard is something we have to get use too all over again.

For now it is back to work, we are moving to the anchorage sometime this weekend and we are hoping to finish a few more things on the list.   The weather is suppose to improve before the middle of next week and then we will be off on our overnight sail back to the familiar anchorage of Portobello and our adventures on the Chicken Bus to Colon.