06/20/2013: Is this thread still alive? It seemed like a good idea.
This week I put out feelers for work for when I get back home, whenever that will be. The money still hasn’t run out and I keep getting gigs as a skipper in the nick of time. I really loath going back. One interesting pingback from the job search was from a group who run a big homeless shelter, a combination of about four hundred tents and portable housing units. They want a nurse with DMAT experience. I like it.
In the meantime, it is getting hot and humid on the Caribbean side of this island and the mosquitoes in beautiful Tucari Bay are getting too much, so this week I began exploring the Atlantic side for decent harbors. God, what a difference: a fine, constant SE breeze and no mosquitos. I look up to beautiful deep-green forested mountains rising suddenly from the rocky shore, home of the last of the pure-blood Carib indigenous people, the Kalinago. I think I’ll buy a chicken from one of them today. I’ve been living off conch and redfish so long, I’ve forgotten what land animals taste like. Anyway, mutually beneficial monetary transactions are, aside from sharing guitar riffs and one’s music, an excellent way to break the ice with a new people. I’ve got to dock this tub for the few couple of days and fly up to Montserrat to sail a sloop back south for an owner in Martinique. I hope she’s in decent shape as the weather has been freshening lately, squalls abound—it’s that time of year again. It will also give me a chance to visit my old friend Michael Jackson, the wandering Jesuit. Maybe he’d like to come with, he is excellent company and a decent sailor. I think he would enjoy meeting the Kalinagos as well. And it will put a pretty piece of copper in me parse.
Sweet Andrea has been complaining of the heat in Celestun, Yucatan and has been hinting that she would like to come down for a month. It would be nice, but our friendship has been so good that I’m afraid that anything more than an occasional intimacy will change it unpredictably. She is a very good person, and very attractive. So civilized. I am privileged to know her. A month is a long time aboard a 42 footer. But she would look so beautiful doing her morning asanas on my bow with all of green Dominica as backdrop. But I have been in the wild so long…