El Salvador social scene

Paradise Fishing Lodge, El Salvador

 

Yesterday was the weekly gathering at Casa L&L. I got to meet the few fellow cruisers in the area, while feasting on BBQ chicken and enjoying an afternoon soaking in the pool. It's times like these that make you wonder why everyone isn't down here doing the same.

 

Of course, today it is back to the heat and humidity on the un-airconditioned boat. For some reason it seems particularly bad today. It does not help that I am virtually alone at the marina - no one to talk, or complain to. Where is everybody?

 

As for the boat, leaving it sitting alone for the past year has not done it any good. The list of things that need attention is just too long to comprehend. It hardly seems practical to try and fix anything right now, knowing that it will be sitting here for at least another 6 months before we possibly try to resume our journey. So for now, I have just done some small, routine maintenance items, run the engine a couple of times. equalized the batteries and such.

 

I head back to Canada in two days.

 

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El Salvador Revisited

Bahia del Sol, El Salvador

 

I have arrived in El Salvador, via Minneapolis and Atlanta. Everything went smoothly and I spent my first night on the boat, cooking slowly in the heat and humidity. 

At this time, I have no internet on the the boat (at Paradise Fishing Lodge) and it is not worth getting a phone for only a week. So today, I drove to the 4 miles to Bahia del Sol resort, where I can get a connection.

 

Things are really dead here. Hardly any cruisers around, and no one else either. It promises to be a long week at this rate.

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A change of scenery

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The high point of our last couple of weeks; A road trip to our friend's cabin at nearby Seba Beach, where we spent the night and put the finishing touches on a fence-builiding project that was started last summer.

 

Tomorrow, I am making a quick trip to El Salvador to reacquaint myself with the boat. A week in the heat and humidity at the Paradise Fishing Lodge and Marina should make me really appreciate Edmonton's summer again. Susanne will hold down the fort here in my absence.

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