Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Charlotte Amalie, USVI
18.20.072N
64.55.483W

I can’t say that today is going to be one of those newsworthy posts.  We had intended to hoist anchor and move to Francis Bay as a change of scenery but the winds were howling at 20 kts when we first got up.  Gerry said that he was willing to sit another day until the winds died down if we were.  Since Dale was in the detective mode trying to track down a little trickle of water coming from under the port engine, he was content to sit another day as well. 

Well sort of, Dale actually called the Social Security office to (once again) fix a problem and ended up waiting for almost 2 hours until he got a live voice who told him that it was actually a problem with whoever had cancelled his account and that until we are back on the mainland and can physically go into a Social Security Office, there is nothing that can be done over the phone.  The joys of cruising for any length of time; we have no idea when we might be back on the mainland.  Next, we called the local post office here to get the correct mailing instructions to have our mail forwarded to us; always exciting.  Then finally, he asked me to collect all of our tax information as he was going to do the taxes.   I gathered it up, helped him download the tax software and then grabbed a book, went below to read and stay far, far, away. 

Other than that, we didn’t even get off the boat today.  Just one of those days.