Sometimes in life you just feel like you are going in circles. And sometimes that can actually be a good thing. It certainly was today. In order to calibrate our new autopilot we had to take Rhapsody out of the marina and drive her in circles.
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| View of the Panama sign from the water |
On September 1st, the marina charged our credit card for the entire month of September. "Why did they do that?" I wondered, "We are only going to be here another week, two at the most."
On October 1st, the marina charged our credit card for the entire month of October. I said nothing.
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| This is the place we have been for almost 4 months. |
Just as things are beginning to open up in Panama they are beginning to shut down in French Polynesia. Panama has been locked down since March. Stores and restaurants have been closed. Men and women hare been assigned gender specific days to shop, and specific two hour windows within those days. French Polynesia opened their borders for air travel on July 15th and since then has had a resurgence of Covid-19 and is beginning to add more restrictions.
This has been the response to our question "Can we go to French Polynesia now?"
I have been waiting to write this blog until we had a definitive answer to that question, but since it has been over five months since we first asked I thought I would fill you in on our convoluted quest to sail west from Panama.
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| Can you find Rhapsody? The little sailboat, dwarfed by the massive Powerboats. She is the mast to the furthest left. |
