Andiamo!

Ok, I know, I know. We’ve been babbling about getting on with this cruise for some time now, only to have all kinds of crap happen. I’m sure that there’s alot of eye-rolling, heckling and giggling going on out there. But you know what? I think we’re actually going to make it out of here tomorrow and off to Mexico. The weather’s looking great now that Earl is no more. Andiamo’s giving us the impression that she’s ready to go, albeit with a couple of scars. We have a ready and able crew. What else is there? I think it’s going to happen.

Tomorrow, Wednesday AM, the adventure begins, or more appropriately, continues. Let’s face it, this has been a hell of an adventure so far, if not the one we were necessarily counting on.

If sat phone is behaving, we’ll try to put up a quick post while we’re underway.

Adios Amigos!

Ok, I know, I know. We’ve been babbling about getting on with this cruise for some time now, only to have all kinds of crap happen. I’m sure that there’s alot of eye-rolling, heckling and giggling going on out there. But you know what? I think we’re actually going to make it out of here tomorrow and off to Mexico. The weather’s looking great now that Earl is no more. Andiamo’s giving us the impression that she’s ready to go, albeit with a couple of scars. We have a ready and able crew. What else is there? I think it’s going to happen.

Tomorrow, Wednesday AM, the adventure begins, or more appropriately, continues. Let’s face it, this has been a hell of an adventure so far, if not the one we were necessarily counting on.

If sat phone is behaving, we’ll try to put up a quick post while we’re underway.

Adios Amigos!

Comment from: Valerie [Visitor]

Tenga un seguro y bendijo el viaje …
With Steady Breezes,
Valerie

2004-08-17 @ 21:56

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2005-08-09 @ 08:00

 Earl’s breaking up pretty good, and has been downgraded back to a tropical wave. This means it’s no longer a centralized storm system that is building up strength. Instead, it’s now this hodge-podge of thunderstorms and high winds. This is great news for us, because Earl’s all that is keeping us from heading out. Earl CAN regenerate into a tropical storm or even a hurricane, but I for one doubt it. We’re going to watch it a little more to see what transpires. If it looks as good as it does today, we may be out of here within the next 12-48 hours.

We shall see…

Earl’s breaking up pretty good, and has been downgraded back to a tropical wave. This means it’s no longer a centralized storm system that is building up strength. Instead, it’s now this hodge-podge of thunderstorms and high winds. This is great news for us, because Earl’s all that is keeping us from heading out. Earl CAN regenerate into a tropical storm or even a hurricane, but I for one doubt it. We’re going to watch it a little more to see what transpires. If it looks as good as it does today, we may be out of here within the next 12-48 hours.

We shall see…

 We are absolutely chomping at the bit to get out of Key West. The weather is awesome, there’s even some nice wind! The only thing stopping us is TS Earl. So far, he’s heading west past the Windward Islands and most project he will head up towards the Gulf of Mexico, putting him right into the path we need to take to get to Isla Mujeres. So we have to watch him for about another day to see what he does. If we see a break, we’ll take it.

So make up your mind Earl, where ya’ going????

We are absolutely chomping at the bit to get out of Key West. The weather is awesome, there’s even some nice wind! The only thing stopping us is TS Earl. So far, he’s heading west past the Windward Islands and most project he will head up towards the Gulf of Mexico, putting him right into the path we need to take to get to Isla Mujeres. So we have to watch him for about another day to see what he does. If we see a break, we’ll take it.

So make up your mind Earl, where ya’ going????

We’ve just been taking in all the news of Charley’s devastation on the rest of Florida after passing us here, leaving us pretty unscathed. While it was ok and even a little therapeutic for us to have some fun with the storm yesterday, we are now sobered with the reality that this was a VERY serious storm. People are dead, homes and businesses are destroyed, more than 2 million people are without utilties, lots of people are injured and much more. And talk about irony, many of those poor people who were evacuated from here and Tampa ended up getting pounded by the storm at the locations they evacuated to!

While we thank our lucky stars we didn’t get hit with Charley’s full strength, we are absolutely saddened at what ultimately happened with Charley north of us. It doesn’t help that our family and friends live in Daytona and Orlando, two of the places that Charley hit with bullseye precision. Even at this time, I don’t know if my parents, brother, niece and nephew are left homeless or worse, since communications are impossible. I can only hope for the best. We’re going to try to get the boat to Mexico tonight or tomorrow so we can get Andiamo hopefully out of the way of any further storms this season has yet to bring. But I have a feeling I’ll be having to fly back to Florida not long after we get there.

Just hoping for the best.