Gentle Reader, It has been a long time since my last entry and for that I apologize. Thank you for your interest and patience. It has been a challenge to develop any kind of Internet connection. Let's do this in a non linear timeline. I am now in Tahiti sitting in a bar with wifi access. I have been working my ass off on Spirit Guide with repairs and trying to make her pretty for three days of parties beginning in two days, but I must digress. A month was spent in Ko Olina, Oahu and I had many an adventure culminating with a broken foot in two places and that story will have to wait for another time. Tonight is the first night of being without my walking cast. I new I did not know what I was doing when I started this adventure and our crossing proved me right. The Pacific for 2800 was many things of both beauty and terror and I am glad we are not recrossing. We sustained much damage and are, incurring tens thousands of dollars in repairs and limped into port with 50 liters of fuel, not gallons, fumes. This adventure has been beyond my imagination but certainly not boring. To anyone who knows me, I am an internet content junkie and have been completely unplugged for over three weeks. I have only met three Americans on one boat two of which were headed to the airport upon their arrival. One other looked like an older and less well fed Ray Liotta, spooky. He will be unamed but Billy thinks he banged his sister back in Seal Beach, CA. There seems to be a flawed mind in common with real sailors and I have been generously welcomed into their ranks. All are gypsies but their hands are out to be shaken but not in my pockets. It has been a long day and the Heiniken has taken my brain. Au Voir