Last night I made sushi. The beautiful local mangos happened to be on the counter and a surprising thought popped into my head: mango sushi, why not give it a try? So I did. Cruising tends to encourage a daring, playful and whimsical approach to life.
Our friends the Hills have departed and it’s time for us to be leaving too. It’s bug season in Belize, very hot and getting hotter. It’s not just bugs and the heat that’s driving us on. The big driver is the hurricane season. We don’t want to mess with any of those bad boys.
Our long-term plans have been changing and evolving as we go. We were originally planning on leaving Gypsy on the Rio Dulce for hurricane season but have decided to head for North Carolina (a beautiful area with lots of relatively inexpensive marinas) where we’ll haul Gypsy for routine maintenance. Once Gypsy is squared away we plan on taking a long road trip around the country visiting the national parks as we go, at the same time seeking out a new home base. We’d like to continue to travel and we both feel a strong need to have some kind of a permanent, land based home. We’re not exactly sure what that will look like or where it will be but at present Oregon seems to be calling us.
Our plans are written in sand, not concrete but that’s where we stand right now. There is a lot of water between us and North Carolina and a big nasty oil slick too. Our current thinking it to head back up the coast of Belize to San Pedro where we’ll check out of the country. From there we’re thinking about proceeding straight to Key West Florida. That way we’ll skip the Yucatan coast of Mexico, which is mostly poor holding and high entrance fees. That would also be quicker and the sooner we get past all that oil the better.
By the way; the mango sushi was as delicious as it was unique.
