Starting Over................
A manta ray greets us during breakfast..... So, we made it. Over a year of planning, provisioning, studying the weather...........it all led to a glorious 28 day 8 hour sail to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas chain.......the first stop in what promised to be a wonderful year in the stunningly beautiful islands of French Polynesia. And not just one - a manta ray ballet OK- Just one more. They are amazing. L'ORIENT performed magnificently. And along the way we discovered that we actually like long passages. Wow........maybe this circumnavigation thing might work. Looking like two people that just broke out of jail......because we did We left Panama February 13. While there was a pandemic in China, and fear of it spreading, it wasn't a big deal (yet). When we arrived 28 days later and got proper internet, the world had changed quite a bit. Kind of a shock to log into your brokerage account. And a bigger shock that you've basically sailed into confinement.