Back in Curacao

We're back in Curacao to move Living The Dream to Aruba. As you know, Curacao has been internet hell for me. True to its reputation, internet was not working last night at the marina where Joel ended up leaving LTD. Not unusual, but we learned our iPhones are unable to
connect to the network here either. Since my plane out of Miami was delayed (lightning closed the ramps) Joel was unable to get my emails so he wasted 90 minutes at the Curacao airport waiting for me. The good news was I was able to get onto an unsecured wifi network at the airport and Skype Laurie that I had arrived.

I'm only down here for 6 nights and traveling with one bag so I asked Joel if I could bring anything down for him. He bought new toilets for LTD so he shipped one to me in Florida and the toilet was my second piece of luggage. Flying toilets are not as unusual as you might think. My check in agent said it was her second one in three weeks. Next time you are in a stinky airplane bathroom, consider that the cleanest toilet may be in the cargo hold, although difficult to access during flight. American now charges $20 for the first suitcase, and $30 for the second suitcase/toilet but I was able to buy a $90 upgrade which included two free bags so my first class upgrade really only cost me $40. While waiting to go through customs in Curacao it occurred to me that there may be a duty on the toilet (no pun intended) but I was able to sweet talk the customs agent who whizzed me through so I didn't clog the line.

We just got invited to a party tonight at A22 by Case, who runs the marina and was wondering who I was sitting outside his office (closed Sunday) obviously using his internet. Not sure if we'll be in the mood for the party, although we did get in nap time this afternoon. I can nap whether we're sailing or on the dock. Joel has the generator running so the A/C is on. We should have electric on the dock at the marina in Aruba. And hopefully internet. We have water on the dock
here but Joel misplaced his key so we have no water on the dock. Short showers.

So for tomorrow, we set sail for Aruba as early as possible. Joel has to settle some business with Case before we leave. Case says he'll be in around 8:00am tomorrow, depending on how things go tonight. Sad to say, but it's in our best interest for him to strike out.

We did some provisioning today. Imca's green monster is back. We found frozen White Castles in a grocery store but forgot to bring our own bags so we had to buy some bags. Inca also sold Joel some honeycomb board and epoxy for a remodeling project Joel will work on
after I leave.

Our goal is to try to kiteboard in Aruba. There is a kiteboading school and we should have plenty of wind without Florida lightning. I'll report back on that later. We cleared out with Customs and
immigation today so we're ready to set sail as soon as Case sobers up. We expect to sail for 12 hours.

I would include a picture but I left my card reader on the boat. Again.

Regards,

Steve & Joel