Technical bits about sailing and stuff
Since Mel last wrote, the Burnetts explored and provisioned in Provo and sailed to Mayaguana, Bahamas. Provo had the most American-ized grocery store yet, the Graceway IGA. Except for the $9.80 for a 12-pack of Coke Zero, that is. Ouch! Unfortunately, crappy weather prevented us from spending time on Grace Beach, officially the “Second Best…
The Burnetts have been in the middle of nowhere. “Zero bars of Lime” kind of nowhere. (Lime is the cell carrier we have in the TCI. That’s “Turks & Caicos Islands” to those in the know, by the way. “Limin’ it up,” in actuality, really means “Getting your WiFi on.”) So we are not dead. …
So the Yacht Harbor Grande in St. Thomas has apparently decided that “lime” is a good verb. I don’t think they meant to advertise that shoppers could “apply a sticky, caustic solution containing calcium carbonate as fertilizer.” But who knows? Maybe they’ve found a way to make that fun? I mean, how many times can…
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