timing is everything....

Hi everybody and hope you had a great turkey day!! Ours didn´t include turkey, but we did partake of a truly lovely rotisserie chicken that we secured in a major chicken bidding war. Yum...

It´s looking like tomorrow is the day..the day to leave for Roatan...for real this time! The big norther that swept through here this week was much bigger than anyone here expected it to be and we couldn´t be happier that we decided to sit tight...that was some serious wind! We´ll have many stories to tell when we get to Roatan and can post pics too, but for now suffice to say we weathered the storm and are getting ready to go. What´s funny is we feel like we´ve already been underway for about four days, but apparently we´re still in the same spot. At least it´s a damn nice spot to wake up in.....

As I write this, Allen is downloading weather charts on the computer next to me, and just informed me that a tropical storm may be developing in our area in the next 36 hours. Hmmm....well, We´ll see what they say on the shortwave net tomorrow morning (broadcasting from Roatan) and take it from there. My hunch is we´ll likely be able to leave anyway. The next big front coming down from the Gulf looks like it will start moving in on Thursday, so we´d better skedaddle while we can. It´s recently come to our attention that the month of December is just over the horizon....how is that possible? Wasn´t it just Halloween??

We did all our provisioning last night so today we´re off for one more succulent meal of black crab and other local delicacies, and some beach time. We´re nearly out of propane, and need to conserve it for the passage to Honduras, which is a great excuse to eat food cooked someplace other than Ute! what can we say, we do what we gotta do.

Big turkey hugs to all and catch ya later. or sooner. time will tell. Love, UTE