Exit (and return) strategy

Estero Jaltepeque, El Salvador

Life in the estuary continues to be very relaxing, with a lot of time spent solving the worlds problems in the company of friends, sometimes over meals at various locations, or just hanging around the pool at the Bahia del Sol resort. Just having a couple of cups of coffee in the cockpit in the mornings can easily eat up half the day.

 

 

 

 

After much deliberation, we have come up with a plan for extending our visas here in El Salvador. Basically it involves leaving the country and returning again. Of course, if we are going to leave the country anyway, we figure we should at least go somewhere we haven't been before.

The place we came up with is Colombia, a country that we have heard good things about and to which we don't seem likely to be visiting by boat in the near future. Since our visas run out on the 25th of the month, we are flying out on the 24th, which is just 4 days away.

Initially, we will be going to an island just off the coast of Nicaragua, San Andres (which belongs to Columbia), where we will spend a few nights before flying onward to Bogota. After a few days there, on March 2nd we will join a tour group for a 20-day exploration of much of Colombia, then return to El Salvador on the 22nd of March. Should be a bit of an adventure, just what we need to break up the too easy life here in the estuary.

Unfortunately, it seems as if almost all of the cruisers we have been hanging around with will be leaving the estuary in the next few days as well, heading various directions. We will have to make a whole new set of friends when we get back - such is typical of the cruising life.

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