March
7 2014
Greetings,
Well, the
weather looks like it’s going to start cooperating. We are now checked out of Colombia
and will be pulling anchor tomorrow morning to head for Curacao and then on to
St Thomas. We may be in Curacao for a little while but don’t plan to stay long.
Our time in
Colombia has had its up’s and down’s. But, overall, I’ve been very impressed
with the people here and it’s a very beautiful country. The medical care I’ve
received here has been excellent and (for any cruisers who are thinking of
passing this way) Dino, the agent in Santa Marta, is the best agent we’ve dealt
with in Colombia and one of the best in the best we’ve dealt with the whole
time we’ve been cruising. We had a delightful lunch at his house today. He and
his wife are charming, wonderful people. He’s also very honorable. One of the
employees in the port captain’s office was looking for a little extra money for
himself to do our paperwork. Dino could have just told us there was an extra
fee and probably made some for himself. But instead he told the guy he wasn’t
going to ask us because he didn’t want us to think it was for him. He had the
guy come meet us, and when Johne said he’d be happy to pay our fees, all he
needed was an official receipt from the port captain’s office, It didn’t take
to long for the guy to back down. In the end, we gave him 5000 pesos (about
$2.50) which only covered half of his taxi to come meet us. Dino is hoping this
will discourage him from asking for money he’s not entitled to.
In health
news, I’ve been on the first med for two weeks. The Doc said I should be seeing
improvement in my eye within three weeks. No improvement yet but I’m still hopeful.
If I don’t start seeing progress in another week I’m supposed to start taking a
steroid to reduce the inflammation. I’m hoping to avoid that but I really want
my eye to be working right again.
That’s about
it for now. We should be in Curacao by Tues night. If you want to follow the
trip, we’ll be sending out the SPOT’s so if you click on “Where’s Second Star”
on the right side of the blog page. Next update from Curacao or St T.
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