More everyday life

The gate between the white man’s world and Gautemala

Lots of the local women wash their clothes here on these rocks

 

Guatemalan house

 

 

Monkeys

When Pam and I bought our first sail boat it was only 17 feet but it was our first and we sail it as much as we could . We lived on it for 3 months one time but when we bought our first live aboard boat it was 32 feet that was another first. When we built the Pamela Ann and sailed her the first time that was Big. When we left the dock I sail her down wind but when I turned her back in to the wind and tried to tack she wouldn’t tack. I felt sick. We had people that said she wouldn’t tack and I drew the planes for her. I sat there for a moment while our friend looked at me then I saw what I was doing wrong. I had the rudder to far over. I built her with the rudder to go to 45 degree not the usual 22 degrees. This way I can use the rudder to dock the boat with the two motors at 45 degrees. She will turn in her own length. I centered the rudder, Pam gave me a dish towel I tied it to the center of the wheel brought her back to 22 degrees she slowly came about and caught the wind and we went “forward” in to the wind a real big first. You can sail anything down wind the test is how she sailed in to the wind. Most people that don’t sail think you have to wait on the wind to change before you can sail back. The first time we made a trip down the ICW was big. Over all now we think we have sailed maybe 18000 miles with the trips north and south along the coast of the US and deliveries 4 trips to the Chesapeake. We lived and sailed all over the sounds of NC. We have been sailing for a very long time from New York to New Orleans but we had never sailed to another country. Mainly because we never had the money. You don’t need much money to sail in the states we can always find a job in a few days where ever we stopped. Not so when you leave. Now let me make this clear some of our most fond memories were traveling in the ICW. Some people say the ICW is a boring ditch. We love it. We are still having first. When we left the Dry Turtugas and made Mexico that was big. Our first country. When we came in we called the port captain he didn’t call back so we anchored and went to sleep. The next morning when we got up Mexico was right there just a few feet away and all you could get on the radio was Spanish. It was a good felling to know we were now out there cruising. There have been other first like the first time I flew a plane by myself that was a very big and we all remember “the first.” Pam and I ran off and got married when she was 15. I was 17 Even today I have people say you robbed the cradle, stole that girls teenage years. “Maybe that not so.” When we were told we were not allowed to see each other any more I did not see her for 2 weeks and I only seen her for 10 minutes by accident 2 weeks before we were married. She was riding around with a girl friend had to be back in 20 minutes. I said maybe I could beg her parents to let me see her she said “That won’t work but I know what I want to do “ I! ” want to get married.” So we did. Lied about our age. They were going to have it annulled Pam said “NO!” A peace of paper won’t keep us apart. We are married. So you see maybe she was the one then and now that’s trouble. And she is the one that said “I want to go sailing I am not ready to live in Alaska yet.” It’s not her following me or me following her as much as a “We thing“. Remember the boat is named Pamela Ann. It’s the boat I always wanted and I plan on keeping her or them Now we have 3 stamps on our passports and I am looking for another first. We were told to sat on our boat at day break and lesson. They say it don’t happen every day maybe weeks go buy then when you here them you can go up the creek with Dumpling our dink and there they will be up close and personal “monkeys“. They say they travel around when they feed near the creek. We will go. Just hearing them will be a first. We see big brown Manatees here in the water all the time. And a lot of the kids have parrots The jungle is not far away. Just saying jungle sounds good to me. We are planning to stay here for hurricane season maybe we will have time to see a lot. We don’t want to travel to fast. We plan to not go back anywhere so we need to see it now and maybe someday we will be back in Southport NC and that would be big if we have not turned back and were home where we stared. We went to Morales, Guatemala on a trip out in the country it was great to see how people live here.

 

Remember it an endless summer here. The houses here are just to keep out the rain and to get out of the sun. They look more like cabins are sometimes shed than houses. I try not to see people here with the politicks I was brought up on. You know that with out a college degree a big house and money to burn you can’t be happy and you are not a first class citizen. I don’t speak Spanish well so I can’t carry on a conversation with them but they look happy. I can see they are clean. Sadly there is one thing that I think would help them is maybe a better education most can’t read not some “most“. Its hard on us that we don’t read Spanish well. But that’s changing. I can read with salt or with out now. Shopping here is almost a “first” every time we go shopping. There are store that look like stores but don’t have a thing that we are use to. Most people buy from small stores near where they live. There you can buy one of almost every things like one cigarette, one diaper, one egg. If you want beans you go to a store that sells beans. You dip them out of a big bag and weigh them, dog food, rice, dry corn a lot of people like to grind there on meal. Almost anything dry can and is bought that a way.

 

There are very few washing machine here you wash by hand on a wash board or a rock .When people need soap you can buy a little bag enough for one wash. The man here is putting a small cup full in bags to sell. He is little but he has a job. Life maybe hard here I don’t know or maybe their just hard at living and not working as hard as they can, making a living.

 

One thing for sure no one is in a hurry. Manana does not means tomorrow it means not happing today. I have to remind my self every day that this is another culture they don’t live like we do in the states and I am not like people that think every body should. Someone with a skill here is rare but some will work all day for about 15 US dollars and maybe they will show up 2 out of 7 days. They don’t feed babies on bottles here they breast feed them. Every one has a clothes line but you want see women under-ware hanging out but you see women feeding babies every where. People that have lived here a long time say you get use to it . I have been in the states to long its hard for me to buy strawberries from someone with a young woman helping run the store breast feeding a baby. Remember a lot of these stores are small maybe 6 are 8 feet wide. Seeing what we have seen in Central America has made me think about how much our lives are set in our own culture. We walked across the bridge today. There was a young couple crossing the bridge on a motorcycle. She was riding side saddle feeding a baby. What if I made a picture of her and put it on our blog? Some women here feel that it’s not lady like to ride astraddle of a motorcycle seat. She was a very pretty young women. How would that go over back in the states. No one on the bridge was staring are saying you need to cover up your breast when feeding a baby ‘on a motorcycle ‘riding side saddle ‘doing maybe 40 MPH . There was no police chasing them because she was riding side saddle they ride like that here all the time and there was no one screaming she’s riding on that bike holding a little baby “call the law.” You don’t see the law here any way. We have a old Honda 450 back in the states and we want to maybe go get it and ride it some more. Maybe I can get Pam to ware a dress and ride that old 450 “side saddle” That could be another first.

life in Guatemala

Meat and veggies delivered to boat

Just washed our veggies

Fog lifting off the mountain

 

 

Some Dreams Do Come True

When Pam and I first stared to dream about sailing we had it all planed out. We would build our on boat maybe a wooden Tahiti, no motor, no battery, no eclectic lights no outboard. Not a thing to complicate our lives. Kerosene stove, kerosene running light and lamps. You get the picture, “Simple.” When we finally built the Pamela Ann our lives had changed. We knew that you “can not” sail today without a motor. There are too many “laws “about sailing, like sailing through bridges in FL. Going up rivers with no wind and all of the kerosene things are out, “Gone Forever.” But we still like it simple. The Pamela Ann is a very simple boat partly because we don’t have any money.

When Pam and I left the Dry Torugas it took us 74 hrs to make Mexico not a fast trip. Remember I drew the plans and built the Pamela Ann. Is it my fault? Her fault or the weather? Most sailors agree even a bad boat can make a good trip. Some times if the weather is right and a good boat can be slow if there’s no wind. In defense of the Pamela Ann there is a north setting current when going to Mexico and we were very satisfied with her performance but its was steal 3 days at sea.
We were there in Mexico having a good time proud we had finally made it. We were at a marina and there was a small boat just came in from New Orleans,11 days at sea, no wind only a small outboard 4 HP, but they were, there happy as can be. Being at sea that long was great to them new experience “not me” 3 days is too long. This is what we call real sailors. Take it, Use it , Deal with it sailors and don’t complain. We left Isla Mujeres, went to Cozumel. They beat us there. Will not go back to Cozumel not a good place for boats. By the way how small is their boat? 23 feet it’s a great boat but in the open ocean that’s small but this is some real sailors and they are letting there little boat show what it can do.
Pam and I decided a little while ago that we were going to write a book. This does not have anything to do with the blog. The blog is to let every one know what we are doing and where we are and maybe later on when or if our families capture us and put us in and old folks home “for our on protection” (While we are there planning our escape) we can look back and read what we were doing and where. The book on the other hand is how we came to Southport, NC and built the Pamela Ann then went sailing.

 

It’s a story about 2 people building a boat and living their lives while they were doing it. Not how to build a boat. It’s about all the people that helped and sadly those that made it harder. Hopefully we can tell what it was like to work for 10 years then finally take the boat out for the first time. A little in-site we sailed her the first time without a motor we used the inflatable staging boat from the movie set of Dawson’s Creek, they were there making a movie. To move her out in the river. We piled our friends on and went sailing. Like to have never made it back against the current back up the ICW with that little out board pushing against her to our dock in the Yacht Basin but “What A Day.”
We were working on our book a nightly routine the other night when we heard a knock. I ran outside and there was our friends on that little sail boat “Maus” (German for mouse.)

Aboard Maus

They had been coming south taking there time enjoying their adventure. Now they are here with stories to tell. This is one of the things about cruising, seeing friends. Its different when you travel a lot. It’s like if you ride a motorcycle and find your self at a motel with other bikers, maybe you go somewhere to eat and see some one from the motel is there. You set down together to eat and talk Maybe you won’t ever see them again but if you do you think of them as friends. Our friends say they are going back soon all the way back to New Orleans they want to go back to work and plan their next adventure. We well stay here safe from hurricanes maybe work on the book but fore sure we are working on the Pamela Ann getting her ready for her next adventure. We know the odds of getting the book published is low what with our education. I finished the eight grade. I type like most old men “hunt and peck. Our only chance for writing a good book is from what good books we have read and how they were wrote. My favorite authors are Janet Evanovich writhing about Stephanie Plum to Larry McMurtry‘s, Longsome Dove add in a little Henry David Thoreau and Joshua Slocum, Sailing Around the World Alone and you would have what I wish I could write like. I talked to a woman that has published some books she said “Just write in your on voice and maybe the story will carry the day.” We will see.
We have a list of thing to do every day but it’s hard here with all there is to see and do. There a new adventure here every day and we don’t want to miss anything. When I say that Guatemala is just outside the gate and it’s white mans land inside the gate. There a family no more than 50 feet out side the gate that live in one room maybe 20 by 20 with a door no window just wire for a window. They have 2 kids a dog and we love these people they ’re great. If my writing makes them sound poor and in need I have failed .
I don’t see them as poor. They don’t seem to have beds the kid sleep on the floor on a pallet. The adults sleep in hammocks. We walked by the other day the kids were asleep on the floor and the dog was laying there with the kids he looked and followed me with his big brown eyes as we went by but he didn’t move. They have a TV and something that plays good music. It makes me feel good to see them so happy and they seem to like us. I try to talk to them but it’s hard with my bad Spanish they seem to like it when I say something they can understand but what makes them so unique is their cook stove.

 

Its a 55 gallon steel barrel, stood on end under their porch with a hole near the top and in the side no chimney. Has a piece of metal in it that allows a space to be used about 1 foot at the top. They build a fire in that and cook on top of a barrel but they don’t build a fire the way I do they build the fire and burn the wood from the end as it burns they push it in. Maybe it holds in the heat and the wood burns that a way because there no chimney. I don’t know. They put pot and pans on top all day but in the after noon they clean the top and cook tortita bread just on top of the barrel. Its so simple. There have been times when I wish I had a stove like that. I wish I had one when we built the Pamela Ann we used a modern gas grill. “What did we know?” We used that grill so much we had people asking us if we were so poor we didn’t have a stove where ever we were living. We ate supper on or in the Pamela Ann and slept there in the hull a lot, long before she even had a deck. We had a place to live “most of the time” when we were building the Pamela Ann but remember it took 10 years to build her that’s a lot of suppers and a lot of sleep. We were always worried about some one calling the police and saying we were living out there in that old rusty hull. We had a time just getting a temporary power pole you know rules and laws. If we had built her here we would have lived on the ground here and later in her hull as we built her. Down here you are free to do what you want.
Pam and I have set aside a little time at night to write our book but even that gets put aside sometimes down here. We were invited to go to a restaurant the other night to listen to the Captain of Maus and friends on Capt Jack a boat we met in Key West FL. We have been traveling with them some. He plays the guitar and she sings and a man here named Tony was going too. Tony is a local. He is one of the men we met when we first got here playing music up the street from our boat. We have already put Tony’s picture in our blog. He is good. I new it was going to be and entertaining night. The couple off of Capt Jack are from Kentucky. The captain off of Maus is German living in New Orleans. Tony is from here The music had a wide range from New Orleans blues, Bluegrass to Spanish love songs. It was good

Tony decided to introduce the band but he introduced us too. I was catching a few words now and then I heard people of the world “ Pemilla Aon” and boat so I ask what was he saying and they said you’re right. He said they live on a boat named Pamela Ann and are people of the world. I don’t know what that means but I like it. I guess I had a pinch me moment setting there under a large palapa on the river with little flashes of lighting way off. It rainy season here. You can always see some lighting some where at night. Most of the people there were from all over the world. Why a pinch me moment to see if I was dreaming. I guess I still don’t believe we are “ON” the trip we have been planning for a life time and sometimes “dreams do come true.” But remember this. We have not been waiting for a life time to have a little adventure. It been airplanes, motorcycles, big rigs “trucks” building log cabin, lot of boats for Pam and I for almost 50 years now but if that was meat and potato this is “Gravy.”

 

Rio Dulce Pics

Locals come by the boat to sell good fruit and veggies

 

 

Castillo San Felipe, Lago Isabel Rio Dulce
“The Freya Pose

 

 

 

 

 

2ed Week in Guatemala

 

When we decided to write a blog I wanted to let people now where we were and what it is like where ever we are. Well we are still in Guatemala but to tell what it’s like here. You have to remember we can only write about what it’s like for us not what it’s like for other people. We love it here. We have a slip $150 a month. Cheap dock. Has a washing machine free for the boaters to use here at this marina. We have internet free, cable TV free. We need a new cable for TV, so right now we are not going to hook it up. We have been a year with out TV. “Don’t miss it.” What I like best about being here is the gate . On this side of the gate is white man’s land. On the other side is true Guatemala. Now when I say white man’s land that don’t mean we all speak English. There are some people from all over, Europe, Poland the Czech Republic all over here in the Rio Dulce. What does this have to do with being here? Out side the gate most people speak Spanish only. There is 2 stores under the bridge on the south side of the bridge that caters to boaters. Most of the time you can find some one that speaks some English there. Ever where else you speak Spanish or like us you try wave your hands a lot do charades or draw pitchers. When you need something here like groceries you can go to a grocery store they have one here “looks like a grocery store” but they may not carry anything like what you want. Meat don’t look like anything you see in the US. There is no cubed stake there’s no steak here no roast. Its mostly chunks of meat or sliced thin very thin. You can go under the bridge to the stores that cater to boater and buy frozen meat cheap but when you by it frozen it look like a chunk you really cant tell what you are buying ..

 

 

That’s what we have been doing some times.  So why do we love it here? It’s so different here. So much a different culture. There’s  a woman in a Launcha, that’s what they call the boats they use down here to work the river. She comes by once a week has great produce and frozen meat. She comes to our boat, does not speak a word of English. It’s fun buying groceries over the rail of the Pamela Ann, cheap. Where we are at you can drop bread crumbs over the gate and chicken will come a running.

There’s a little restaurant just across the street maybe 20ft from the gate, that cooks only Guatemalan like fish head on. They gut the fish and take out the gills then fry in oil no batter, with fried plantains, rice. Cheap $4 US maybe and Pepsi in a returnable bottle cheap the big ones about 40 cents.

 

There are a lot of poor sailors here that can’t live any where else they say. There are people here say they can live here for maybe $100 US a week and I believe maybe you can, if you fished a little and anchor out. And remember a lot of these people are like Pam and I they have been doing this living cheap thing a long time and they are good at it. The people here seem t

There are a lot of poor sailors here that can’t live any where else they say. There are people here say they can live here for maybe $100 US a week and I believe maybe you can, if you fished a little and anchor out. And remember a lot of these people are like Pam and I they have been doing this living cheap thing a long time and they are good at it. The people here seem to like us, Pam and I, now remember I am a likeable guy or maybe they like selling me something but they are always helpful, laughing and friendly. The dogs here even like me they always come and check me out when we walk down the street. Sometimes I do share what I am eating with the dogs. They are taken better care of here than in Mexico but all of Central America has fat chickens and they are every where here. We wake up to them every morning. We love it. When I was a boy everybody had chickens.

Here no one has a clothes dryer. Every one has a clothesline. When we built our boat in Southport, NC, Mr. Harper came buy after we had fought for 3 months to get them “City Hall” to let us have a temporary power pole so we could build our boat and won. He said our boat will be most likely the last ocean going boat to be built in Southport and he was glad it was a fully rigged top mast schooner. What he most likely didn’t know was we may have been the last people to have a clothes line in the City limits of Southport. This is a different world we feel free here. You don’t have to worry about things like that here.

What you do have to maybe worry a little about is the way they see the law here. I am not sure if it’s a joke or not but I heard a story about some men so drunk the driver of a car had trouble finding his key. Ever time he looked at his keys his eyes would focus on his keys he would almost fall. Finely he got the car stared and left the police said when ask why he didn’t stop them he said they had not wrecked if they did he would know they were to drunk to drive but if they didn’t they were all right. This is the way a lot of the laws are looked at. If some one steals your outboard motor you find it you may not get it back if the man that has it says he brought it. The police would say he didn’t know who stole it but the man that has it he believes bought it so he can’t take it unless you can prove he stole it. He can keep it, he bought it and there is no way to change the way they think. So most things here have a chain on them and most big stores have and armed guard in full combat gear with an assault rifle. The delivery trucks have armed guards in full gear riding along with them. To some people this is unnerving. The way I look at it we are here we keep our stuff locked, we live behind a locked gate what can we do and the people here seem to get along well with just a few police. You very seldom see one. We only go to town in the day light and don’ t walk on the street late at night. I have ask if any one has been hurt here and no one can remember who any one was that was reported to have been and no one can remember when anything happened. Sometimes people talk about things that happened 10 years ago like it was yesterday. I feel safe here.

We have been talking about the town here. It’s an adventure to go to town. To tell what it’s like. Take a road in the US with a white line big enough to have a painted line for the shoulder. Then build a town with the building all the way up to the shoulder line. “No sidewalk.” Then add big trucks not only18 but 22 wheelers add cars. All kinds of cars. Add lots of people and to top that off add a little cab called tuk-tuk. It’s a little car maybe built in China. Looks like a rickshaw. Three wheeler. Add lots of motorcycles. Have ever body blowing their horn. “You have Fronteras.” And it’s all over in what would be maybe 3 blocks in the US then you are out in the country. The better stores are on side streets that go down to the water. Like I have said you travel best here by boat. There a lot of little dock on the east side of town . Remember this in the US location, location, location is every thing. “Not down here.” You have to know where to go to get the best stuff. They maybe selling from under their house on a back street. It’s been that way everywhere we have been in Central America. What is in these stores? A lot. What is not in these stores, A lot. But it’s fun to look. I may have to get a shock collar for Pam to help her get out of some of these stores. I don’t know but its probably legal to have one on your wife down here if you need help getting her out of a store. We are planning on staying here through hurricane season . When we leave it will be hard to top this maybe we will some day do Argentina or the Amazion River. We can only hope but for how we are taking all we can in. We need to work on our boat but it’s hard. Pam and I can go for a popsicle and find ourselves wandering off some where for hours. But maybe we are just settling in. In all of Central America “WORK.” Well it’s not real high on most peoples mind and I am beginning to like that.

Tuk-Tuk

 

 

 

 

More Pics from Guatemala

Park under bridge

Tour bus driver taking a break

Guatemalan street
Chickens

 

 

First Week in Guatemala

Its hard to say in a short story what it like to be here. We wake up every morning to the sound of chickens sounds of thing we have never heard before and busy people making a living on the river with there pangas or dug-out canoes and there is always the bridge 24 /7 you can here the bridge. Its part of life here. You can all ways hear big trucks going over the bridge with there Jake brakes. The town of Fronteras is on the other side of the bridge. If we want to go to town we can walk across or we can take Dumpling our dink across the river to town. This is a true water world here most people go every where in there dink it just the best way to get a Around. There’s one thing here that I think people should know is there is a lot of white people here and they live in a white world here. They do what a black friend back in Southport would say is white people stuff like getting together to do water color painting are all going to a bar on movie night. What dose this have to do with living here? Most people here on sail boats have there boats in marina that are what we call a gated community for old people with boats and they stay in these communities. Only going to places close to the marina that cater to boat people. If you go just a short distant from these marina you will be in a brown world . The people here look like there are Maya and Guatemala Indian with a few blacks. From now on I will just call them local people. By now I may be in trouble talking about white people, brown people and the worst of it black people but I have not said any thing about a midget not yet. Today you can not say anything about what color a person is and you have to call a midget a little person. I have wondered what it would be like to see a Maya midget. Maya are the smallest people I have ever seen. Will there is one here and he is not a little person he is an absolutely tiny person. What I like about this diversify is we can live in both worlds. We can go to town are walk away from the marina and no one speaks English. The locals never see how white people live because the marinas have locked gates. I don’t care. I didn’t come down here to show the locals how we live. I came to see how the Guatemalans live and they are open to us being here. Now all I have to do is remember this is a different culture and show the people here the respect they deserve. We are still trying to learn to speak Spanish but it’s hard. How is the culture different here? We went to town was shopping, a truck was stopped on the side of the street loaded with steering wheel covers. He had a whole load of them he was selling maybe one at a time. I don’t know where you could find that many steering wheel covers. He and a man got in and argument then a fist fight. All the men there crossed there arms and watched no one tried to stop them. No one called the law. No local man here would ever call the law over men fighting. Here and in all of Central America respect is very important. Down here little boys are taught to grow up and be men. There are no little boys down here playing games and not allowed to keep score. If you are far enough from the marina you will see men at a little cantinas in the afternoon having a beer they will have on a nice shirt a hat and always polished boots. Sometimes they will be old very old but they look hard and “tuff” still looking like and acting like men to the end. I like that. I would like to think I would look tuff setting on our boat drinking hot earl grey tea on my last day but I don’t think they think hot tea is tuff. Like I said “ It’s a cultural thing. There is another thing you will find here all of the locals are clean very clean it’s part of there world. It’s that way in Mexico too.
The people here are open and friendly. Pam and I were walking by a bar, there a man was playing a guitar and he was good a lot of the men were singing I stop and gave them a thumbs up. In a few minutes we were in the bar. I told them we didn’t drink they went next door and bought water for us. They ask our names in Spanish when they tried to tell us theirs Pam gave them a little pad we carry. They all signed there names and what they did like Chito( man with guitar) or Tony Ochoa (best singer) but one man was the mayor of Fronteras. He told a man there that could speak some English to tell us if we had trouble with any body to come see him. His English was as bad as our Spanish. “What do you think?” We have been here a week and already know the mayor. The bar we were at is not a real bar it a open restaurant where they sell beer and it also the bus stop. There are chickens and dogs in the street but you don’t have to worry about them in the bar they know they are not allowed in. They will come up close and stop but won’t try to come in. Who said you cant teach a chicken anything? With our bad Spanish and there bad English we could understand a little. They were here working on a project for the school. The men were picking on a young man maybe 30 the best we could understand he had spent the night with a local girl and she had left in the night with his computer “his work computer” They all knew the girl and the law knew the girl and said “The computer would be returned.” There is so much of the world that is different and so much that the same.

Our New Amigos

When we are young I guess we are all the same. Kids here laugh, run and play like all kids do but here some of the kids have a parrot that goes along with them like a dog. All the kids play in the water and by the time their a big kid a lot of them have a dug- out canoe. Another thing about living here in our white word is what you want in a white man world will cost you a lot to get it here. On the other side of the gate what you can buy if you can get buy with it is very cheap. Vegetables are cheap but all tomato here are roma long nonacid tomatoes, green bean are pole bean a little tuff. There is no target market here like carrot market size maybe all the carrots will be 6 in long in the US here you may get a foot long with 4 inch long in a pile. What they have goes to market and that’s the way most thing go to market here. They have a lot here we like if you go through the gate walk maybe 50 feet to a store here you can buy Pepsi Cola there 16oz in a glass returnable bottle 40 cent US and its cold. Everyone has ice cream, hard to get in Mexico.
One thing we were told before we came was we would be working here all day every day for what we know about boats we have not found one job here. There is someone here that ever one uses for each job and they do work here cheap. Every one we have met says the same thing. You can get it done here cheap maybe not as good as they want but cheap and no one down here will pay what it cost for good work. If you need money to live on and are planning to come here to work we have only been here a week but there has not been people beating our door down to get us to work here. We didn’t come here to work we came here to see what just out side the gate here. We met a man here in a dug- out canoe fishing, had his fish covered with leaves. Every thing looked like it would a hundreds of years ago but he was talking on a cell phone. The world is changing. We put a picture of women washing closes on wash board all ready when we first got here. That’s common. We are going to stay here until hurricane season is over. Work on the Pamela Ann get her ready to go on south but what a place to work.
“If Pam can keep me on this side of the gate.”

 

Local Fisherman with dug-out canoe

Little girl waiting foe her
Madre