Uberfied

Yes we are now uberfied. The courtesy car would not run Saturday, does not on Sunday and who knows what it would do Monday so Sunday we decided to try the Uber service for a ride to and from the grocery store -- Publix.

That was interesting. Karen set it up on her phone and we walked past the Security checkpoint and made the request. It said a driver would be there in 7 minutes in a Hyunda Sonata. Well 5 minutes later a Toyota pulls in and stops at the security gate. The guard said this was our car. So we got in and I told the driver we were expecting a Sonata and he said this is Toyota all the way. Just as we are leaving a woman runs up and bangs on the car. She said it was her ride so we got out. A few minutes later the proper Uber for us shows up and we had a nice ride to the grocery. After buying the groceries we made another Uber request and again in 7 minutes we had the ride. Not bad -- both trips only cost about $5 each and no tipping expected!!

Spent the afternoon polishing more stainless and just generally doing nothing on a lazy afternoon.

Late afternoon we had the crew of YOLO (Steve and Molly) join us for drinks and snacks and had a great visit.

Today was laundry day for Karen and I went over all my GPS's to be sure they all the proper crossing waypoints in them, routed a new HDMI cable so I could use the TV in the cockpit with Coastal Explorer if necessary. This afternoon being the gluttons for punishment that we are we tried the courtesy van again -- went to voice mail. We went to the office to schedule a pumpout for tomorrow and asked if the Courtesy car was running today. Oh yes and the driver Diane was sitting there shooting the breeze with them. Hmmm I wonder why the call went to Voice mail? She took us to West marine and knew we wanted a ride back after I purchased the new cockpit chair. There is a great Italian market next door so we went there first. ohhh man nothing but fresh food and bakery and very fair prices. We bought some pastrami to make reubens out of and I bought some shrimp for an appetizer. Shrimp are prohibitive expensive in the Bahamas so I won't have any till we return. Picked up the new chair at West Marine then called the courtesy van -- yep you guessed it -- went to Voice mail. We waited 5 minutes then started to walk back carrying our STUFF. No return call was ever received. o pitiful because this is such a nice place but the courtesy car is in complete disarray. I even wrote a complaint to the VP of this operation yesterday but he obviously operates like the courtesy Car Voice mail --- NO REPLY. Aaaack..

Well bigger fish to fry. A crossing opportunity is coming up this Wednesday - Thursday. It is short but sweet looking at this point so all us cruisers here at the dock are abuzz with plans. Unfortunately none are going to the same place in the same time frame.

Ohh well -- we be cruising though and I definitely leave this place Wednesday morning.