"Do one thing a day..."

Dan said that Joe gave him a "blueprint" for retirement.  He told Dan that all you need to do is get one (1) thing done each day.

So the one thing we aimed to accomplish yesterday was to pick up the watermaker we had ordered. Our plan to get it seemed simple: take a local safari bus ($1/person) to the watermaker dealer in Benner Bay-St. Thomas and then call a cab to drive us with the box back to Red Hook Bay.  The distance didn't seem far on the map.  This shouldn't take long, we thought. 

We asked a man on the street if the bus along that road would get us to Benner Bay.  He told us it would get us close, but that it would still be a walk to the bay.  So, we waited for the bus... Did I mention that the taxis and buses look almost exactly the same on St. Thomas?  We flagged a number of buses down and by about the fifth one it really was a bus we could take. We got off at the flashing BUDGET MARINE sign. (No, it really doesn't flash, but all marine chandleries have a strong magnetic pull on boat captains.)  We shopped for a while in the down right cold A/C and then asked directions to the watermaker dealer only to be told that "you can't get there from here."

We started walking to the dealer and, luckily, a guy with a pickup truck stopped to give us a lift. He saved us from a rather long winding walk up and down steep terrain.  He offered to take us back to Red Hook with our box if we'd be ready in a half hour or so.  We were ready, but the dealer didn't have the watermaker at his office location...So our Good Samaritan, Wayne, was willing to drive us to yet another dock locker area to pick up our huge box.  He dropped us back near our dinghy in Red Hook and we managed to shove the giant box into the dinghy.  We returned to Exit Strategy and had to unpack it piece by piece to stow it safely on board  in our aft cabin "warehouse".

So, Joe- One thing a day is not so easily done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOBY!  Stolat!