We continue to wait impatiently for the delivery of Salish Aire. We have a pick-up team ready to head to British Columbia on short notice, our slip is waiting empty (and paid for) in Everett, but no boat yet. The AAL Dalian was keeping a very tight schedule all of the way from Florida to Ensedada Mexico but since then the winds of the west coast off California have become a major issue for even an ocean going freighter. This morning the Dalian is virtually at a stand still with 40 knot winds ahead of it and intermittent gales forecast for the foreseeable future until it gets well up the Oregon coast (it is currently north of San Francisco).
We are also trying to prepare for a 10 day trip to Belize which we have been planning since 2004 when we left a year long volunteer posting at a clinic in the southern part of the country. At that time we arranged to be the conduit and conductors of funding from a couple of churches to keep Margery Cho of the Maya village of Crique Jute in school. Next week she will graduate with a Bachelors Degree in nursing. I expect this will make her one of only a very very tiny handful of Belize Mayans (ESPECIALLY women) who have gone to college and I would guess maybe 10 or fewer RN's in the country that are native speakers of a Mayan dialect.
We really did not expect the boat plan and the Belize plan to every overlap and yet here we are. Hopefully the next posting will include photos of Salish Aire floating in the Salish Sea.
In the mean time we continue to be very very grateful of our friends John and Laurie who continue to share their house despite the death this week of Laurie's father providing them with their own "life's challenges".
Norman
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