Journal Entry August 26

Friday 26 August 2011

Springfield, Illinois

Hello,

More of the same today–Sharon at the university and Michael at home fixing things ( ^ ;

Went grocery shopping and discovered we can buy “Fiji Water” bottled in Viti Levu and shipped all the way to the U.S., right here in our local store.  It’s good to know that in case we are missing the tropics we can always go get some Fiji Water to quench our thirst.

We also ate some hot wings for dinner, and it reminded us of our long down wind sail in the Trade Winds where we put the jib out on the starboard side and the mainsail on port.  We called this configuration “winging it” because with a sail on either side it looks like the boat has wings.  Okay, it’s a stretch to think of this while eating chicken wings, but apparently it doesn’t take much!

Fair winds,

Sharon and Michael

s/v Larabeck