Welcome to Island Life

Our last post was uploaded in the central square park in Bocas, tethered 3G to my cell phone, for all you technology geeks.  Soon after that we took care of many errands and headed back to our boat.  We loaded up and headed out.  We were feeling good, beautiful weather, fairly smooth sea, sunburned but relaxed, and then it happened – the boat motor all of a sudden went from 5,000RPM to 3,000RPM, then hesitated, to put it in technical terms, the boat motor was unhappy.  At this point, honestly, Shirlene and I weren’t stressed, only one of our children was feeling quite stressed, thinking we were going to die, I won’t mention any names, I’ll just say this, she is the oldest one. 😉 I cut back the throttle and it seemed to run fine,...