3-03-03 Today is Colleen's birthday (03-03-03), cool date. Only happens every hundred years. Taking it easy today with early afternoon snorkeling, then a dinner party complete with lasagna, chocolate cake and a few close friends. Just reminiscing about Colleen's last few birthdays spent aboard - 1999 in Panama Canal Zone, 2000 in New Zealand, 2001 in the Maldives, 2002 in South Africa and now 2003 in the Bahamas. What more could a girl want? We've enjoyed Georgetown for the past couple weeks, catching up with old friends and making new ones. Too many happy hours and parties though. It's a hectic pace here in Georgetown. Looking forward to sailing heading north again, through the Exumas island chain day after tomorrow.
3-20-03 We're in Nassau for one day then onto the central Bahamas, the Berry Islands. Won't spend too much longer in the Bahamas. Pat's Mom's health is not improving and we are anxious to be back in the States and close by. Maybe another week or so, then we will look for a weather window to cross the Gulf Stream to Florida. Note: Check out our new addition to the website: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
3-26-03 Back in the USA, feels great! We sailed into Lake Worth Inlet (West Palm, Florida). Happy to be home after 4 1/2 years. We will end our website here with an additional update in the summer as we settle in as "land-lubbers" ... jobs, cars, phones, meetings, etc. Will let you know how our transition from boat life to land life is going. It will be a challenge for us. In 1998, the transition from land/working-life to the boat/cruising-life was easy. Not sure it will be so easy for us going back to land life again. We'll certainly miss the freedom we've had for the past few years. Our journey has definitely had an impact on our lives. We feel truly enriched by all the peoples, cultures, and diversity we encountered along the way. And we are changed as a result of it ... changed for the better, we believe. It's been a tremendous life experience. Thank you so much for your emails, full of kind and encouraging words, we enjoyed hearing from so many different people during our journey. We leave you for now with a few words:
The act of dreaming is important in itself. We wish you an endless flood of dreams and the intense desire to make some of them come true. We wish for you love and peace. We wish you passions. We wish you silences. We wish you birds singing when you awake. We wish you soft rains, the laughter of children, and good health. Above all, we wish you to be yourself. God Bless. Pat and Colleen, Yacht Simmer
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