Day 300, Year 1: Sunday in Pago Pago
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2006
Weather: Sunny and Windy with Sprinkles Here and There
Location: Pago Pago Harbor, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
Today was a lazy Sunday aboard Windbird. We have had so few days like this, with absolutely nothing we had to do. We read, edited some photos, and started the task of cleaning up our computers. It was terrific to just go slow for a change.
Then this evening we went to Evie’s Cantina, featuring Mexican food. Every Sunday evening Evie’s shows a DVD along with dinner, so we joined George and Ute from “Miami,” Judy and Matt from “Elsewhere,” Ed and Dorthy from “Prism,” and Mitch from “Komfey” for dinner and a mindless movie. The food was great and we had a good time.
Mitch sailed in here with his wife about five years ago. They found themselves short of cash so found jobs and have been here ever since. Mitch spends every weekend working on his boat. He has removed the teak deck and is re-coring and fiber-glassing the entire thing. A big job but he does good work. During the week he is an engineer at the Hospital. His wife, who is in the states on vacation, works for the University of Hawaii which has a small office here.
We are settling in and expect to be here for almost a month. Tomorrow Mark will begin searching for anyone who might have been here when he was here in the ’60’s. I guess they will be old (just like us) by now! But it will be good to make contact and reminisce.
We have hopes of getting wi-fi internet connection here on the boat tomorrow. That will make life easier. However, we heard tonight that that may not be a real possibility. We shall see.
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