I think we are close! We have been working diligently on contacting the countries we need to transit down to Aruba for hurricane season and so far, things seem to be finally falling into place. We can currently transit through the Bahamas as long as we don't want to get off of the boat. We are allowed to stop for emergencies if we get a COVID test prior to leaving the states. Finding somewhere that will test perfectly healthy people has been a challenge so I am still working on that kink but getting closer. Next puzzle piece is Turks and Caicos which should be opening for transit this week. Puerto Rico is already open and Aruba will allow us to stay in their country for hurricane season as long as we have been quarantined for 14 days while in transit or when we arrive. Finally! It has been a long wait since March and we are very ready to go!
Meanwhile, we have finished our projects (my deck looks great by the way!) and we are gathering our last minute Amazon orders for the trip. Oh, how I will miss my Amazon! We were blessed today to watch the first manned rocket launch since 2011 from US soil. Watching the rocket fly into space was a breath taking event. Man is certainly an amazing creature. A short blog this week but hopefully we will be back on the move by this time next week! Fact for the week: History of Fueled Rockets The first man to give hope to dreams of space travel is American Robert H. Goddard, who successfully launches the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926. The rocket traveled for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away. The rocket was 10 feet tall, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline. (for comparison, the rocket launch today, 5/30/2020, will travel to the International Space Station and was traveling at 5600 mph when we saw it)
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Another week of continued deck repair work but I am on the home stretch now it seems. We see a little ray of hope as Curacao reopened (with some restrictions) this week so we are waiting not so patiently for others to follow. Our area of Florida opened with a bang so we were very excited to be out and about in the real world once again. On Wednesday, we decided we would walk down and support the local sports bar that had just reopened. It was chicken wing night so I was definitely on board! On the way, we had an odd encounter (which is saying a lot since we are in Florida and pretty much every day counts as an odd encounter....). The sidewalks in Cocoa are your typical sidewalks and they are about the usual 3 feet wide. There are public benches that sit along side the the walk area so when you are sitting on the bench, your feet are on the sidewalk. We were happily headed toward the restaurant minding our own business when Bill spotted a fellow sitting on one of the benches with a monkey. Now, I ask you...is anyone going to just walk right on past a monkey on a leash sitting on a bench watching the world go by? No! You are going to stop and talk to the monkey because that is what polite folks do in the South. So, we stopped to say Hi to the monkey. The next thing I know, the crazy monkey owner says, "Not six feet away". Bill stated that he wasn't going to touch the monkey without permission. The crazy monkey man said, "No, you aren't six feet away from me." It was all we could do to hold our laughter until we had walked away! Bill said to me, "Seriously? He lives with a freaking monkey and he's worried about catching our germs?" I had to wonder if crazy monkey man had never seen any Hollywood movie that had a monkey for a pet in it.....trust me, the pet owner never gets a happy ending. So, after the harrowing monkey man event, we were glad to make it unscathed to the restaurant. It was very surreal to be sitting down to have a meal at a restaurant since that had not occurred for at least 6 weeks. We enjoyed our chat with our waitress and our neighbors seated 6 feet away. Since it was a sports bar, there were several tvs located on the patio. Because we live on a boat, live tv is not something we are used to anymore. My, how things have changed over the past 6 weeks. The only live sporting event we had was....South Korean baseball.....We were hoping that the fact that there were no fans in the stands was related to their continued battle against Covid and not a statement on the sport of baseball.... Thus, our Caribbean Watch 2020 continues this week and I look forward to my next post with hopefully some encouraging news. Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful moms out there! As your areas open, be sure to support your local businesses that are so hard hit right now. They are all so excited to be up and running again! And for goodness sake, be sure to stay at least 6 feet away from all monkeys once you venture back out onto the public sidewalks! Educational fact for the week: The History of Korean Baseball (because you know you were going to have to look it up! Go Tigers!!): The KBO League (Korean: KBO 리그),[1][2] originally called the Korea Baseball Championship (Korean: 한국야구선수권대회; Romanization: Hanguk Yagu Seonsukkwon Daehoe), is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982, and has expanded to ten franchises.[3] Nine of the ten franchises are named after the companies or business conglomerates which own them, while one sold their naming rights (Woori Heroes in 2008, Nexen Heroes from 2010 to 2018, and Kiwoom Heroes from 2019).[4] The KBO League is the most popular sports league in South Korea.[5] Kia Tigers (formerly Haitai Tigers) are the most successful team, having won 11 out of the 38 championships. |
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