Wrapping up the Caribbean season
We’ve been at anchor in San Juan, Puerto Rico for almost two weeks now. We’ll sail north to Bermuda on Tuesday, approximately 800 nautical miles from here; from Bermuda we’ll sail another 700-ish miles north to Maine in order to get us to more temperate summer weather and wholly out of the hurricane zone. It doesn’t feel like we’ve been in the Caribbean for over five months, but it does seem like ages since we arrived in Bequia after crossing the Atlantic. The Grenadines, Grenada, the Grenadines again, St. Croix, the BVI, the USVI, Culebra, Vieques, and San Juan—we’ve kept our cruising grounds small and it seems like this season was more about enjoying our time on the boat and in the water around the boat and less on exploring new places. Daily school definitely limits the time we have for other activities, and getting Hans to and from airports to go to work is another major factor in where, and how, we spend our time. So after five months we’ve definitely fallen into