Providencia!

we made it! we pulled into the anchorage in radiantly turquoise Catalina harbor about 2 PM on Sunday....and have been living an island fantasy ever since! this place is unbelievable! All except the internet connections, that is, which move at a circa 1994 sort of pace, so I´ll keep this brief on the (highly probable) chance that it won´t load at all......anyway, this island is amazing, we are safe, healthy and happy, and we will probably leave here on Friday if the weather experts stick with their prediction of light SE winds for this weekend (sounds too good to be true, but then again that is the norm around here it would seem).

The trip here was great....had to do some motorsailing to power through 25 knots just off our nose, and took a lot of waves on the beam, but it was never unpleasant and certainly was as good as we could hope a northbound passage in the Caribbean to be.

more soon, although it could be a little while, as we plan to check into Honduras on the island of Guanaja, where the computers may be just as high tech as these. Since it takes 12-18 minutes to open one email message here, I entertain myself by pretending this is actually one of those historical reenactment tourist attractions, the type where we will someday take our grandkids to show them what computing was like in the early 90´s....I can hear it now...¨Grandma, did people really wear their hair like Jennifer Aniston and carry mini backpack purses?¨

love to all, and more soon. UTE