Jim's Time as a Bachelor on the Boat

May 12th, 2010
Jim has been down there in La Paz now for almost a month! He has been working on the engine. He has also rebuilt the windless and now he has a wench torn apart. He can’t really fix it because he needs parts. He will have to take the windless apart again when he gets the parts for that and he can’t fix the engine yet either. It is really hard to get parts for things down there. He calls home every day and tells me what is going on. The food that was left on the boat had to be thrown out, except for the canned stuff. There was a little flour there in a canister on the cabinet. It was full of weevils and I told him to just throw away anything else there that could get infested. I don’t want to come back to a boat full of bugs of any kind!!
He has had a chance to see some of our old friends. I wish I could have been with him, but it isn’t possible right now.
I am still in SLC working a few days a week and spending time with my family. I hope we will both be able to go back down there one of these days. It would be nice if we could get the engine and the wenches fixed so that we could bring the boat back up here to the USA. Then we could travel back and forth once in a while. La Paz is a very long ways from home.
Jim is ready to come home. It is 103 degrees down there most days. And it is still spring weather up here. While he is down there sweltering in the heat and trying to get the problems fixed, I am up here trying to get the yard straightened out and expecting to watch the grand kids this summer. What a contrast!!!
He has also got his "people" working on getting his visa renewed and he has the insurance on the van renewed. He still needs to get the license plates on the van renewed, if they have to be renewed each year. We have not been able to learn if that is needed or not. Maybe I need to write to Isabel and ask her. Guess that is what I will do!