Outboard Motor FIXED!!

SO happy to report that we finally have our outboard fixed! Hooray!! Daren rowed to shore to pick it up this afternoon from Jim, who finally found the part (coil) on E-Bay! We'd pretty much given up on our old motor, but finally asked God to solve the problem, and not 2 hours later got a call from Jim that he found the elusive part! Quite a "coincidence" don't ya think?! Sure wish we'd thought of it a lot sooner! It's really true that "God is in the details!". Daren came zooming home this evening and it was a wonderful sight...wish I'd had my camera handy! We've been rowing so long (over a month!) that my arms look like Rosie the Riveter's! We've met so many nice people here in Marathon! Our next door neighbor, Kevin, has a guest onboard with a cute chihuahua mix puppy, Sammy! It's fun to see him try to play with Libby when we take them to shore twice a day. She mostly ignores him! Every morning at 9, there's a cruisers' net on the VHF radio with all kinds of good info. Norm and Barbara left San Francisco 18 yrs ago, and are now heading for Texas to put their boat on a truck back to CA. I just finished reading a fun autobiography called The Motion of the Ocean, by a woman who left Seattle on a sailboat on their honeymoon and made it all the way to Hong Kong in 2 years! According to the author, you have to have a B-HAG, or a Big Hairy Audacious Goal! I prefer to say PLAN, as it makes for a better acronym! I love reading about other people's sailing adventures, and hope that someday we'll make it to the South Pacific, too, but we don't want to subject Libby to a trip like that! Meanwhile, we'll be glad to get over to the Bahamas, so I can change the photo at the top of this blog to something a little more tropical!