S/V L'ORIENT

View of our olympic sized swimming hole (you could fit the whole olympic games in there) Well, we are almost done with French Polynesia, or more accurately French Polynesia is almost done with us. Our two years in paradise are coming to an end, and we are slowly making our way to the west. We may have mentioned that while Kirstin and I are welcome to stay here, well, forever......L'ORIENT is going to be taxed $28,000 on April 10 if we are still in these waters. You can bet we will not. Ironically, our exit from Polynesia will involve a voyage between two "double named" places........Bora Bora to Pago Pago (which you all surely recognize as the teeming metropolis and capital city of American Samoa). In early January we sailed west to Tahiti because we needed so many things. In the Tuamotus, there are no chandleries, big grocery stores, etc. Fruit is a luxury. Fresh vegetables are the stuff of impossible dreams. You get the picture. And true confession- after so much time o