April 23, 2008

KIVA outside The Caves, Norman Island, BVI

After spending several weeks in the Spanish and US Virgin Islands, we arrived in the British Virgin Islands on Monday, April 7th. This is a milestone for several reasons, not the least is that we are now closer to Trinidad (our hurricane home for the summer) than Florida (were we started in November). Also, in 2005 we chartered a catamaran here in the BVI's with our friends from our sailing club, TASS, from Houston, TX. After a year of surgery, radiation treatment and chemo, the BVI trip was the first time we started thinking about changing our lives and started thinking about cruising. Now we're back, on our own boat, in the place where it all started. The trip so far has had its ups and downs, but mostly ups and best of all, we're still going south.

Our first set of guests are arriving this evening to stay for a week with us in the BVI's. After that, we will do an overnight crossing to St. Maarten to meet our next set of friends. Finally, in mid May, the last set of friends will arrive in St. Maarten and will spend two weeks with us on our way down island to Antigua. After that, we have about five weeks to get to Trinidad before the hurricane season starts. We appologize for the lack of full updates; we are having way too much fun to spend time on the computer!

Take care and keep those emails coming!

Jan & Terri

Cruising Updates:
(For earlier updates, go to Cruising Logs )

Jan. 26 -Feb 8, 2008
The Dominican Republic

Jan. 12 -24, 2008
Provo, Turks and Caicos

Dec. 20, 2007 - Jan. 12, 2008
George Town, Exumas

December 26, 2007
Junkanoo Parade, George Town, Exumas

November 22 through December 22
Fort Lauderdale to George Town, The Bahamas

October 13 through November
Back in Fort Lauderdale