A few groceries were needed...
June 11 2017
Waking up in the USVI is definitely.... surreal, palm trees dancing in the sunset last night... surreal. Looking out onto a marina full of expensive boats... Surreal! This second day, giving way to a month of this kind of feeling will be life altering in so many different columns of my world. The opportunity to do this hasn't gone by me without a pause of appreciation and bewilderment... as to.... how'd this happen again. Dix was great and has been instrumental since I first met him some 26 years ago, yearly reminders of my love for water... sailing... and slightly following in his footsteps of being a sailor / nomad / sea spray junkie type... I'll always blame him and I think he's OK with that, and his shuttle service from Yountville to SF airport, albeit in my Subaru, was nothing shy of amazing. Weaving in and out of the streets of San Fransisco (where's Karl Malden when you need him? / yes, if you're under 40 you'll have to Google that reference), hidden view points of the Golden Gate bridge and rolling through the GG park.... perfect timing to the airport some 2 hours early... capped with a full moon on my birthday no less.... Thx again Dix.
Waking up in the USVI is definitely.... surreal, palm trees dancing in the sunset last night... surreal. Looking out onto a marina full of expensive boats... Surreal! This second day, giving way to a month of this kind of feeling will be life altering in so many different columns of my world. The opportunity to do this hasn't gone by me without a pause of appreciation and bewilderment... as to.... how'd this happen again. Dix was great and has been instrumental since I first met him some 26 years ago, yearly reminders of my love for water... sailing... and slightly following in his footsteps of being a sailor / nomad / sea spray junkie type... I'll always blame him and I think he's OK with that, and his shuttle service from Yountville to SF airport, albeit in my Subaru, was nothing shy of amazing. Weaving in and out of the streets of San Fransisco (where's Karl Malden when you need him? / yes, if you're under 40 you'll have to Google that reference), hidden view points of the Golden Gate bridge and rolling through the GG park.... perfect timing to the airport some 2 hours early... capped with a full moon on my birthday no less.... Thx again Dix.
Side Note: on my 50th birthday I was
able to celebrate it on a similar though different sailing cruise up into SW Alaska, I happened to be on the 50th parallel. This one I'm on the 18th parallel... nice tradition for sure!
Before and after the shopping included major cleaning aboard Maxim. We
all seem to have a slight anality (spell check doesn't like that word i guess but you get the point) when it comes to cleaning. The vessel will leave port on Tuesday spotless, fully stocked and ready for the trip. Pushing 25 tons seems to be a heavy load,
however I believe the (2) Caterpillar 3208 can easily handle the cruise North.. Capt. Craig gave us a brief 101 course on how they operate, seems there's a slight difference between them and the Toro lawn mower of 4 decades ago I'd mow the lawn with...(image
shown for affect, ours are installed, not on pallets ;-})
Full Day, nice meal from Krystal, a local libation and it's off to slumberland in my V-berth cabin. Until tomorrow... or the next day...
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