We did a few boat
chores this morning. It was a
mess. We’ve spent every moment lately
glued to the computers so our boat has quickly become a pigsty. Dirty laundry is everywhere. Projects we bought but haven’t had time to
work on are strewn around the boat.
Dirty dishes are cluttering the sink and the dish rack is overloaded
with clean dishes. Haven’t even taken
the time to put dishes away … shame on me! We did an overall cleanup of
Soulmatie.
Once our poor
little boat was a little more ‘livable’, we now felt better at returning to the
projects at hand. We went ashore to the
small kiosk near the marina to get an internet connection again. I did banking, updated our financial
spreadsheets, etc with the last several days of spending. Larry got weather, checked our mail,
etc. They were quick projects.
Around 2pm, we
checked the tracking of our package again.
Yippie!!! It says it has arrived.
The St. Thomas Post Office has scanned our package. It is in their building. Now, will they be able to find it? We immediately gathered our belongings and
headed to find out.
Not too bad … the
clerk only searched for the package for about 5 minutes before she brought joy
to our eyes. There it was … that simple
cardboard box brought long awaited smiles to our faces. We didn’t even wait to leave the post office
before we tore it open. Did it include
all our ‘crap’ … YES!!! Thank you Carl
for your huge role in collecting/sending us our stuff. We will be forever in your debt … or at
least for a while. Better cash in while
you can J
Back at our
favorite little kiosk, I went through our mail. Most of it was junk. If
we want to max our out credit to replenish our funds, there were about 4 credit
card advance offers. Nope, we are
trying to do this ‘debt-free’ for as long as we can! There were a few very important documents in our mail. One is that annoying thing we get from our
mortgage company a couple of times a year.
It says their records show we don’t have sufficient coverage for our
condo. This ALWAYS happens. The way the condo policy is structured, it
always confuses the mortgage company.
We always have to jump through hoops to get them the documents they need
to PROVE we are fine. Back home it was
a pain … out here, it is complete hell!
Another piece of
mail that was rather disturbing and ruined our entire day was from the
Department of Motor Vehicles. The day
before we left Boca Raton to begin our adventure, Larry was running around town
doing errands. In making a right turn
on red (where it was legal), he ‘supposedly’ did a rolling stop. Yep … a cop was there to tell him so. Since we didn’t have time to argue or fight
the ticket, he just went ahead and bit the bullet. We sent them a check for $264 … damn that hurt. Well, today, in our mail, there is a letter
saying he has been found guilty and needs to go to traffic school or his
license will be suspended. CRAP!!! That’s not what the ticket said. He had 3 choices … Option 1, pay the
ticket. Option 2, plead not guilty and
ask for a court date. Option 3, take a
4 hour online driving course. He opted
for Option 1 … we paid the ticket. How
then can he be found guilty and sentenced to traffic school? We’re desperately trying to find out. We spent most of the remaining afternoon
TRYING to get in touch with the Department of Motor Vehicles. We called them using our MagicJack. It would go directly to an automated message
with the typical ‘our call volume is large but your call will be taken in the
order in which it was received’. The
message played twice and then disconnected him. This happened at least a dozen times. Damn … Larry was frustrated … and rightfully so! We finally had to give up and we will try
again tomorrow. So much for heading out
for more adventure … there is always something!
The locals are
starting to get to know us by name. We
are now well past the 2 week point in one spot. When we first dropped the hook back on May 5th, we
anticipated maybe a week at the most.
We’ve tried to make this time as productive as possible … and we have
made some amazing strides. But we’re
out here to cruise … not work! Crap …
something needs to change!
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