Tuesday
1900 - Culture shock equals realizing you must ring a doorbell before you can enter a store (and I mean any store!!!) Culture shock equals having your heart skip a beat when you pour a clear liquid you assume is diesel into your gas tank and wondering why it is not red like everywhere else in the USA!!! Once again at Starbucks as my efforts to curb caffeine severely hindered by the desire to “get connected” thus necessitating the need for the purchase of a cup of joe at every venue!!

Sometimes the karma of a day is aligned just right and today felt like that for me…a little less mindless ruminating, less emphasis on time, not as much thinking about what lies two steps ahead and less wondering why I should be doing this and that versus just enjoying the action, the moment, the experience.

A trip across the bridge to Paradise Island with Jordi last night, but alas “paradise” was not found as lady luck in blackjack came crashing to an end in 3 hands, 2 chips and 60 seconds…game over! Today provisioning at the market, talking on Skype, negotiating vegetable purchases at the local stand, head overflow issues (enough said!!), 175 screws purchased for boat improvements and the highlight of the day a 45 minute run that tour guide St. John planned brilliantly bringing us by many of the sites, sounds and monuments Nassau has to offer.

Where to now??? The EXUMAS BABY!!!! Said my many to be some of the finest cruising grounds in the world…approximately 90 miles in length and jam packed with over 350 islands of all shape and size.

Photo tour of Nassau, the Exumas, dang that is a lot of conch!

PS: We continue to really love the comments and my apologies for a severe backup in responses to them.