Travel with Indigo

We all slept late at the hotel this morning and we woke up to the news that there had been an Islam terrorist threat to blow up ten or more planes, which thankfully was thwarted. When will be willing to say these terrorists are doing these things because of their religion? I briefly considered flying home right away but my wonderful travel agent Cindy Basamot convinced me that things would really be crazy for a few days and it was best to keep to our original plans to fly out Sunday.  […]

Grant, Will and I flew to Salvador today; it took about 90 minutes.  We had reservations for two rooms in the Bahia Othon Palace Hotel which had been recommended by John and in our tourist book. The hotel was about as far from the airport as you could get, but it was on the beach. However, the beach here has a rocky coastline and there are only a few places that we would really think of as “beach”. We had deluxe rooms and they were very roomy, but a bit basic and not at all fancy. […]

It’s a beautiful day in Recife but being anchored in Recife in the commercial ship area is a whole lot different from where we have been. Toby is going to the city to see if he can buy more coolant—the port engine seems OK now since the sand and air have been cleaned out of the water system that cools the engine and they are now doing the same with the starboard engine. Phil, Grant and Will have gone to Recife with John (the retired head of the federal police in Recife) so that should be a real adventure. […]

Lots of work has been going on, trying to get the boat ready to leave. Roddy and the boys have been in the engine room all morning, changing filters and doing other things I am totally not familiar with. We left the area about 1:45PM and were out at sea until about 5PM. The seas were bumpy and rolling. […]

We all slept a little late today—Will Proctor is the early riser among us.  Our plan was to leave the area today about 1PM and we were armed with suggestions from John and Luigi but the boat had other ideas.  After a short voyage, we had to come back because the engines were overheating.  You boat owners know about that kind of thing!  […]