Lat S 15 41 / long W 035 02

Day 6
On the way we have met and been in contact with a lot of
different people. Today I think of our friend P. who we met in Puerto
Montt. He was a solo-sailing American, who has lived more time in Mexico than in the
USA. He was very helpful and helped us translate from / to
Spanish in certain situations. He had sailed from Mexico through Panama to
Easter Island. There he remained for three weeks before he headed for
Puerto Montt. He loved to tell the story of when there was
really bad weather over the island and he had to go out to sea for four
days to ride out the storm. We heard the story at least three times and
it was surprisingly similar each time. The last time I could
have filled in the next sentence myself through the whole story.
He was headed south like us, then up to the Caribbean to
visit a sister.
When we asked why he chose the way around South America to visit
his sister in Antigua, he replied:

But you are going the same way, why are you doing it?

Anna Karin